Tag Archives: Prayer

Midweek Message – March 5

It’s Ash Wednesday as I write this; one of my favourite days of the church year. Some of you will remember times when most Protestant churches didn’t have Ash Wednesday services. I don’t remember any from my growing up years, however, when I came back to church in my mid-thirties and immediately dove deep intoContinue reading “Midweek Message – March 5”

Midweek Message – February 12, 2025

Worship – We continue with our Six Stone Jars series on the Abundance of Jesus by marking Black History Month with reflections from Black United Church people from across the church. The scripture reading is Luke 6: 17-26 – The ‘Sermon on the Plain’ Blessings and Woes. I will offer a few reflective words asContinue reading “Midweek Message – February 12, 2025”

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”