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Yr B ~ Pent 24 ~ Mark 12:28-34 My challenge this week is how do I say something new about something that’s so much a part of us that it forms our logo? Let’s find out! Mark 12 is a…
Yr B ~ Pentecost 23 ~ Mark 10:46-52 Faith. The final frontier. This is the journey of the church ship Faith United. Its 21 year mission, to explore God’s world, to seek out renewed life, and new interpretations. To boldly…
Yr B ~ Pentecost 22 ~ Mark 10:35-45 I’d like everyone to turn and look at someone else in the congregation right now, make eye contact, smile, and now say these words, “I’d like you to do for me whatever…
Yr B ~ Thanksgiving ~ Matthew 6:25-33 I was having trouble getting going with this week’s message. Then one word changed and everything started to flow. And I was thankful! A different word was giving grief to our bible study…
Stewardship Series 4 ~ 2 Corinthians 9:6-15 We’ve been looking at mission and ministry this month and lifting up all the wonderful ways this church engages in loving God, loving neighbours, and loving one another, with an emphasis on the…
Stewardship Series 3 ~ James 1:19-25 Last week we were all about sheep and goats and this week we’re all about hearers and doers. But unlike last week where we were supposed to choose one or the other, and picking…
Stewardship Series 2 ~ Matthew 25:31-46 Today’s scripture reading is from near the end of the Gospel of Matthew, so it’s kind of like a summation, or a completion of all of Jesus’ teaching. In the past I’ve called this…
Stewardship Series 1 – Luke 10:25-37 Source sermon by Rev. Trisha Elliot Adapted and expanded by Rev. Dr. Larry Doyle Preached by Jocelyn Doyle What are you thankful for? My list is likely as long as yours and I have…
Yr B ~ Pentecost 15 ~ Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 I hope you can picture the scene this reading paints. It doesn’t say precisely, but this early part of Mark’s gospel has Jesus travelling in the Judean countryside teaching, healing,…
Yr B ~ P12 ~ Ephesians 6:10-20 Let’s talk football today – because, obviously, football is a perfect metaphor for faith. There are many different kinds of football to talk about. There’s Canadian football with 3 downs – there’s American…