You Are a Blessing All through the weeks of Advent, we have been using quilt blocks as a way to look at the readings. We had to cancel our Christmas Eve service due to bad weather, so today, Rev. Catherine adapted what had been planned for Christmas Eve and added Epiphany The first one isContinue reading “The Season of Christmas”
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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”
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”
If Only
If only, if only. Those were the two words that stuck in my head as I pondered and prayed about this passage! It’s part of Hannah’s fervent prayer for a son, which you are about to hear. This passage introduces her story, a woman deeply troubled by her inability to have children. And remember, inContinue reading “If Only”
Midweek Message – October 3
Monday was National Day for Truth and Reconciliation; a holiday for many people. I try not to think of it as a holiday, but more as a day set aside to learn some more about Indigenous History and present day realities. So, while I spent some time in the morning at my computer, working onContinue reading “Midweek Message – October 3”
Trickery and Truth
Trickery, bribery, lies… the Bible has it all! You probably expected me to say that the movie had it all! 😉 And it does! One of the questions that rolled around in my head and heart this week was: Does the ends justify the means? Normally my answer would be no… but after I watchedContinue reading “Trickery and Truth”
Strong Backs, Soft Fronts, Wild Hearts
Can spiritual practices enable us to be open-hearted and humble?
Love Poured Out
This story is told twice in our gospels, once in Mark and again in John, I’m going to read both stories today, listen and see if you can hear the differences. First from Mark 14: While he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a womanContinue reading “Love Poured Out”
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