Most weeks, our worship leader offers a 15–20 minute sermon based on the Scripture texts for the day.
Our regular preacher is pretty versatile. She’ll tell stories, pull together different ideas, lead a meditation, give the congregation an “assignment” to talk about in twos or threes, show a slide show or video, or sometimes even sing to the congregation. The sermon functions to deepen our reflection on the Scripture themes of the day, and often leaves us with a challenge or a question.
Scripture texts are outlined in the Revised Common Lectionary.
August 24, 2025
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…
June 15, 2025
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…
June 1, 2025
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…