[Click here for Video] Today is commonly called “Little Good Shepherd Sunday”, a week that echoes Good Shepherd Sunday, the 4th Sunday of Easter. On this day we Consider the nature of God in Christ as the One who is our Good Shepherd And we contrast God’s nature to our own flawed nature, as we […]

[Click here for Video] Karen and I traveled to Halifax back in 2009, and as we were walking through the city we were stopping to check out some local pubs and churches – a normal practice of ours, when we visit different places around the world. One church we saw in Halifax was an old […]

Jesus comes to his hometown, and goes to the synagogue on the Sabbath where he teaches, and the people are astonished. Now, astonished is an interesting word choice. It simply means that the people were filled with “a sudden and overwhelming surprise or wonder.” (dictionary.com) But we don’t know, at this point in the story, […]

12 years is a long time to deal with an affliction, especially one that makes you unclean, cutting you off from contact with other people, physically and religiously. This poor woman has suffered for too long, and we can presume that she’s cried out to God for help, and God, to her, has been silent. […]

It’s hard to “image” God, that is, to imagine or come up with a picture or description of God, isn’t it? I mean, we’re talking about God the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth! We’re talking about God the Son, Jesus, who became truly human, suffered, died, rose and ascended into heaven! We’re talking […]

[Click here for Video] If I’ve said it once, I’ve probably said it 10 or 12 times in my preaching over the past 5 years: “God is God, and we’re not!” And our 1st reading today from Ezekiel 17 makes that very clear again, as no less than 11 times in 3 verses God says, […]

Our first reading today is part of the 2nd creation story (there are 2 by the way – one in Chapter 1 and this one in chapter 2) So this is part of the one that starts in Genesis chapter 2. God creates Adam from the earth, and, realizing that it’s not good for him […]

[Click here for Video] Jesus confounds Nicodemus in John, chapter 3, by telling him that he must be born again. And Nicodemus clearly understands Jesus to be talking about a literal rebirth, because he asks: can a grown person climb back into the womb, and be born a second time? Only, Jesus, of course, has […]

We gather tonight, on this 40th day of Easter, to keep the feast of the Ascension of Our Lord, reading from Luke’s account of this event in Acts chapter 1, an account that’s similar in many ways to his account at the end of his Gospel. Luke picks up with the story of Jesus’ ascension, […]

[Click here for Video] Picture this, if you can: Peter, a good Jew, a keeper of the Law of God, a family man and a business man – a fish monger in the crossroads town of Capernaum – has his life turned upside-down when an itinerant preacher from Galilee comes to town. 3 years he […]