Candidate for ministry from Crossroads, Nam Ok Yoo, returns to Crossroads to offer the sermon on this fourth Sunday of the season of Lent. The text for the day is John 3:14-21. It includes John 3:16, one of the most foundational texts of the New Testament, and, Nam Ok confesses, a challenging one for her….
It’s Not Fair
For the second Sunday in Lent, the Rev. Edith Baird preached on Mark 8:31-38, in which Jesus begins to orient the disciples to the reality of the cross. Edith points out the difference between a common misunderstanding of the “crosses we bear” and Jesus’ true invitation. Following Jesus, we can choose, like him, to experience…
The Lion and the Bear
The Rev. Edith Baird preached today on Amos 5:18-24, a “hard word” from the prophet delivered to the people Israel in an era of great prosperity (and great injustice). She shares the clarion call of the text: to live in such a way that our words in worship line up with our actions in the…
I Doubt It
A team of lay leaders led worship at Crossroads today, and Bruce Holvick was our preacher. Listen as he explores the story of Jesus walking on the water found in Matthew 14:22-33.
Swords to Ploughshares
Our friend (and former student minister) Craig Perry was up for a Stump the Preacher challenge and goes after a funny discrepancy in the prophets in today’s sermon… Why does Scripture say “beat your swords into ploughshares” in one place and “beat your ploughshares into swords” in another? And furthermore, when Scripture speaks out of…
Q&A re Mama Orphans Children’s Home Today
The sermon for May 14, “Mama’s Day” at Crossroads, was no ordinary sermon. A Question and Answer session with Bobby Odhiambo, the son of the Rev. Monicah Oduor (Mama herself) and Colleen McCormick, founder of the Kenyan Orphan Children Foundation, the Vancouver-based charity which supports Mama’s work in Kenya. Though the conversation starts out on…
Doubting Thomas
On the Sunday after Easter, preacher Nam Ok Yoo hosts John 20:19-31 with the Crossroads congregation. Stating her disinclination to dwell upon the concept of “doubt” or “skepticism” so soon after Easter, Nam Ok then proceeds to compassionately open it all up, avoiding the temptation to “make Thomas the bad guy” and finding the key…
Amazing Grace
“Myth-Buster” preacher Craig Perry tells Crossroads members the true story of Amazing Grace hymn-writer John Newton in this sermon on Psalm 130, a psalm of ascent. In his sermon, Craig identifies the complexity of human life and invites us to imagine looking back on our own time from a future date. Getting that distance may…
Conversations in the Night
The Rev. Edith Baird shared a sermon today based on the texts John 3:1-17, Genesis 12:1-4a and her favourite Psalm, the 121st. Our beloved retired minister introducing the Hebrew Scripture as featuring “old people” got a good laugh out of the congregation…but we were rapt with attention as Edith went on to describe the…
The “E” Word
Preaching as part of the Vancouver School of Theology’s “Theology Sunday,” Craig Perry opened up a new approach to evangelism in his sermon on I Corinthians 2:1-13. What if we approached evangelism not so much as an exercise in Christian Apologetics (having a tight argument for why Christ is the answer) but as an…