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Midweek Message – December 11

Scripture – Matthew 3: 1-12 Message – You will hear from a childhood friend of John’s… looking back on her life and reflecting on John’s message of repentance. Your one chance of the year to throw things at your minister is THIS Sunday! There is a LOT going on over the next two weeks. I’veContinue reading “Midweek Message – December 11”

Midweek Message – December 4

We continue with the series: Words for the Beginning in this second week of Advent with the theme: We Can’t Go Alone. Scripture this week is Ruth 1 & Ecclesiastes 4: 9-12, which might seem odd choices for Advent. These passages are often read at weddings although they have nothing to do with marriage, butContinue reading “Midweek Message – December 4”

Midweek Message – November 27, 2024

Advent starts in just 4 days! Many folks at the church have been working away at many things to make the season meaningful. There is an Advent Devotional Book available to go along with the theme; we are only printing them for those who request them. Also an opportunity to participate in an Advent PhotoContinue reading “Midweek Message – November 27, 2024”

Midweek Message – November 13

Worship this week focuses around being called by God; I don’t know how many of you are on Facebook; it was my turn to provide a short spiritual reflection for the United Churches for Dartmouth, so I’m including it here. The text is Isaiah 6: 1-8. It’s been a week again… my sister had surgeryContinue reading “Midweek Message – November 13”

Living in the Light

One summer, about 35 years ago, a twelve-year-old boy from Northern Ireland stayed with my family and I. He was among about 40 children ages 10-12 who came to Nova Scotia that year. These were children from a boys and girls club in Belfast, a town noted for its religious intolerance, violence and terrorism. TheseContinue reading “Living in the Light”

Midweek Message – November 6, 2024

The US election has been on everybody’s mind this week, in some of my ministry groups on Facebook, there has been speculation that worship bulletin prep and sermon drafts may have to wait till after the election. I looked at what I had already prepared for liturgy and decided that it was still very appropriate.Continue reading “Midweek Message – November 6, 2024”

A Little Meal.. a Little Oil…

450 grams of dry rice or some other grain. 50 grams of beans/lentils of some sort. 50 grams of oil. 5 grams of iodized salt. That is a day’s worth of emergency food aid. And this is what it looks like as one of three meals a day. As most of you know, I wasContinue reading “A Little Meal.. a Little Oil…”

Midweek Message – October 30, 2024

Worship – I am going to share some of my experience of Hunger on the Hill, the Canadian Foodgrains Bank event that I participated in Ottawa while on Study Leave. It links nicely with World Food Day which was October 16th, which we didn’t mark, but will on Sunday. Scripture – 1 Kings 17:1-16 –Continue reading “Midweek Message – October 30, 2024”

Mission: Possible!

I spent much of last week in an old church building, an Anglican church building, on Elgin Street in Ottawa. Not quite as old as ours, and the hall that we used was bright and cheerful with comfortable chairs and a small kitchen. I didn’t attend church on Sunday morning… 😉 I was going toContinue reading “Mission: Possible!”