“Fearfully and wonderfully made”              From our psalm this morning, we hear our psalmist praising God, saying:  “I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” (Psalm 139.14). I love this poetic image so much because it not only describes our origins and whose image we’re all ultimately made in, but the content of it -fearfully and wonderfully made:  there’s something…

“Why John the Baptizer won’t be appearing in the next Hallmark movie…”              I like to try to get down to my parents’ house on the family farm every few weeks.  And it’s funny, almost every time I get down there on late Sunday afternoon, I come walking in the front door and there my parents are, relaxing in the front living…

I begin today like many people will, who will take time to say: Happy Mother’s Day! So I say to all the blessed mothers who gave birth to us; who were always there for us; who always loved us; who always toiled endlessly in front and behind the scenes on our behalf and who have, quite frankly, put up with us…to all…

Sermon: Luke 24.13-35 -Sunday April 26th, 2020 -The Third Sunday of Easter “Going Down to Lonesome Town…”              Geographically speaking, we don’t know too much about this place Emmaus, where two of Jesus’ disciples were on the road to in our gospel and where along a dusty road, as they were discussing what had just tragically occurred in Jerusalem, a mysterious stranger…

Sermon: John 10.1-10 – Sunday May 3rd, 2020 “Jesus & the grocery store arrows…”             Dear friends in Christ, as the weeks and months of this pandemic progress, we are beginning to see the very real emotional, mental, spiritual, and even in terms of our waistlines, the physical tolls that the effects of social isolating and the new rules governing human relations…

Sermon: John 20.19-31 – Sunday April 19th, 2020 “What the darkness reveals”             I remember when I was a little boy – maybe 5 or 6 years old, my parents would go out on Saturday night leaving me and my brother and one of our older cousins in charge of babysitting us at our house. And in retrospect, I can say that…

Easter Sermon 2020 – Sunday April 12th, 2020             Our psalmist cries out this morning: “On this day the Lord has acted; we will rejoice and be glad in it.”          Hallelujah! I’ll say it again: “On this day the Lord has acted [and] we will rejoice and be glad in it.” So c’mon, all you at home, go on say it with…

“Let’s make a deal, or rather, let’s make a covenant: for I am the resurrection and the life…”             My favourite gameshow growing up that I used to love watching on T.V. was “Let’s Make a Deal,” starring the late great Canadian born in Winnipeg – Monty Hall, who would wear I’m sure you remember these absolutely outlandish brightly coloured polyester suits…