A congregation of the United Church of Canada
Yr C ~ Easter 2 ~ Acts 9:1-20 If you feel far from God, or if you’ve turned your back on blessings, or if you’re an atheist, or a radical agnostic, or just plain don’t really know what to make…
Be You“He didn’t mean to try to cop his licks note-for-note.” One of the things guitar players like to do is to learn to play riffs and licks that their guitar heroes play. We obsess over these things. We’ll go…
(This is our Moderator’s Easter message. I hope you enjoy it!) Hello, I’m the Right Rev. Dr. Carmen Lansdowne, Moderator of The United Church of Canada. For the past several months, I have been thinking a lot about the nature…
Easter Sunday ~ John 20:1-18 We’ve been wondering our way through Lent this year, and wondering our way through Holy Week, and now we’ve arrived at the big one – Easter Sunday – I bet you’re wondering what I’m going…
Good Friday ~ John 18:1-19:42 There are so many pieces to this story that it’s hard to know where to begin. Every year we find ourselves lost in the strangeness of these events, and yet compelled to rehearse them again…
Holy Week and Church“It’s heavy.” An answer to prayer arrived in my inbox. In the busyness of putting together all of our Holy Week services and the numerous reflections and sermons therein I was not sure what I had left…
Yr A ~ Palm ~ John 12:12-16 So here we are again. Palm Sunday. A significant day in the rhythm of the church year that many of us have been marking for years, decades even. Some of us have experienced…
Holy Week Looms“Our boats are different.” Buying and selling music gear is an interesting endeavour. This past week I did both. The characters you meet are fascinating. I was wanting to trade up one of my pedals to a more…
Yr B ~ Lent 5 ~ John 12:20–33 Revelation 21:1-5 Today I’m hoping to invite you to wonder about a rhythm so profound that even Jesus couldn’t find the perfect metaphor to teach it, and for two thousand years people…
Yr B ~ Lent 4 ~ John 2:13-22 Gentle Jesus, meek and mild…goes to the Temple in Jerusalem and doesn’t like what he sees – people selling animals for sacrifice at a profit, money-changers skimming off the top of the…