Sermons

Three times in Luke’s gospel Jesus reinterprets the rules of sabbath keeping. While teaching in a synagogue as Jesus often did he noticed a women who was “bent over”, crippled in some way and had been so for 18 years. She’d been that way for so long people didn’t notice her anymore. Jesus saw her…

Jim played “The Prayer” by Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli to open his sermon.

In the Farewell Discourses  (14-17) the Gospel Writer John says that the Holy Spirit of Truth.  This is Trinity Sunday, so we explore the mystery of the Trinity and also reflect on what truth is in a  post truth world.  With alternate facts, conspiracy theories and truth determined by how one feels or their personnel…

This is the last of our three Sundays on the conversation and prayer that John’s Gospel records Jesus having with his disciples’ Jesus prays that the disciples keep a unity amongst them – that all may be one. Its the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the United Church of Canada whose motto is “that…