Rev. Jim Short

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…

In today’s lesson from John Jesus promises the disciples that when he leaves them. (He is speaking about his death on the cross) that he will not leave them desolate or alone. We touch the mystery of the Trinity – God in three persons. What can Jesus leave them when he has gone. That’s the…