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This week in the post Easter season we meet Peter and the disciples by the lake of Galilee. After all the trauma and change of events that led to the cross and resurrection they’ve gone home. Its what’s you do hopefully when life falls apart. What were they thinking? How were they feeling? Wondering what…
In her final sermon as Minister of Crossroads United Church, Rev. Cari opens up John 20:19-31 with the congregation. Appropriate to the moment in the life of the congregation, she notes that the fear of the disciples in the beginning of the text (despite the testimony they have received from the women) is familiar: they…
Anyone familiar with this time of year – Holy Week knows that it always begins with Palm Sunday. As tradition dictates, we usually have some form of palm parade. Not this year, thought. Reading from Luke’s gospel, there are no palms in the parade. So, it’s an Un Palm Sunday. Instead, the disciples and people welcoming Jesus threw their…
For the 5th Sunday of the season of Lent, Rev. Cari preached on the story of Mary anointing Jesus’ feet with expensive perfume, and wiping them with her hair. It’s John’s telling of the story, found in chapter 12: 1-8. As part of the retelling of the story, she framed the actors as per the…
This week’s lesson – the Parable of the Prodigal Son…or sons – or maybe even the Father who does not seem to act like a stern patriarch of a family in Jesus’ day. To unpack the power of the parable and the power in which Jesus uses it we need to understand something of ancient…
Rev. Jim’s sermon for the third Sunday in the season of Lent is based on Isaiah 55, a text in which the prophet gives away food and drink to everyone who is “hungry and thirsty.” The focus is on grace, that free gift of God that rejects profitability, and makes space for healing. After catching…
For the second Sunday in the season of Lent, Rev. Cari preached on an ancient text, the story of Abram (and Sarai’s) covenant with the Holy One from Genesis 15. As she mentions at the start, there is a part of her that wonders just “what to do” with a text like this one that…
Every year, on the first Sunday in Lent, we move into the wilderness with Jesus, to contend with the Adversary, and this year is no exception. Our text is Luke 4:1-13, and it is relevant. On the surface it looks like a conversation between Jesus and the Devil. A series of “temptations” (as the Bible…
Today, Crossroads had the distinct honour of welcoming Amanda Burrows to worship. Amanda is the Executive Director of First United Church on the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. She and Rev. Cari shared the sermon on the Gospel reading for the day, Luke 6:27-38. Alternating between story, theological reflection, and close examination of a couple of…
On this 6th Sunday after Epiphany, Rev. Cari unpacked Luke’s version of The Beatitudes (found at Luke 6:17-26) which she renamed the “you who’s.” She began with the assertion (borrowed from Robert Reich) that greatness is a moral category, and that power is more than just being able to compel other people to do what…
