Methodist Minister and Canadian icon J.S. Woodsworth, a man our longest serving Prime Minister MacKenzie King referred to in this way, "There are few men in this Parliament for whom I have greater respect…I admire him in my heart, because time and again he has had the courage to say what lays on his conscience, regardless of what the world might think of him. A man of that calibre...
June 19 Sermon
Happy Father’s Day to all those who identify with that important role in another’s life. As you know I am the father of a daughter from China, so Lucy and I have no biological connection. We don’t have conversations like, “did my hair colour come from your side of the family…” Instead Lucy mostly asks about my childhood and teenage years
June 5 Sermon
For the early church the Apostle Paul’s life story, his leadership and imprisonment, and most of all his letters to various emerging faith communities, stood as the firm foundation of the Christian movement. While Paul’s attitude to women, slavery and the state sometimes sounded more like the Saul he used to be in most other ways Paul’s transformation was an inspiration for everything...
May 22 Sermon
I appreciate Alfred Woodworth’s passionate words about the good news of the Bible. His work with the Canadian Bible Society is fueled by his conviction the Bible truly is “good” news. Whether we are talking about the sacred words and stories of the Torah which we Christians often refer to as the Old Testament or the books of the New Testament that were made canon by Church Councils, we are talking about how humans express our faith and understanding of God.
May 8 Sermon
You won’t hear many sermons in a mainline church like ours on the Book of Revelations. Our evangelical friends in Christ like the emphasis in Revelation on a more intimate and final reunion with Jesus. Our fundamentalist friends in Christ tend to focus on the final judgment, a final battle between the forces of good and evil, with Christ on our side as the final victor.
May 1 Sermon
April 24 Sermon
Jesus Scholar N.T. (Tom) Wright says our time, “the modern Western world is built on anxiety. You see it on the faces of people hurrying to work. You see it even more as they travel home, tired but without having solved life’s problems. The faces are weary, puzzled, living with the unanswerable question as to what it all means.
April 10 Sermon
April 3 Sermon
Easter Sermon
Do you remember the story about the Road to Emmaus? Hear these words: While they were talking and discussing, Jesus himself came near and went with them, but their eyes were kept from recognizing him…When the stranger was at the table with them, he took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.
Palm-Passion Sermon
March 13 Sermon
March 6 Sermon
February 28 Sermon
February 21 Sermon
February 14 Sermon
Priest and author Thomas Kempis wrote, “We usually know what we can do, but temptation reveals just who we are.”
Clarence Jordan was a scholar, preacher and farmer, someone with two doctorates, one in Agriculture and one in Greek, you may have heard of him, he penned The Cotton Patch Gospels, a unique translation of the New Testament, putting the original Greek into the southern vernacular .
January 31 Sermon
A fact few church goers seem to know; the earliest written texts in the New Testament are not the four Gospels, they are instead Paul’s letters to various churches. The Gospels came later, which explains the inconsistencies, the differences in the way each tell the same story, in the stories some include while other writers leave out.
January 24 Sermon
January 17 Sermon
January 10 Sermon
One of the great privileges of being a Minister is that you get to meet so many people with vastly different life experiences than yourself, it stretches you and helps you to understand the human condition. Another privilege is that you get to meet people who have been transformed by faith, their faith has made the difference between life and death.