Advent 2 (Peace) Are you The One who is to come? Or, is there another? John the Baptist asks these 2 pivotal, important questions from prison he wishes to have resolved with Jesus. In our day and time we might expect a simple 'Yes' or 'No' resp...

Thanks to www.sundayschool.store we found a free, no practice needed family pageant with a theme centring on the lights of Christmas and "The One True Light of Christmas". Listen in as school teacher Jean Ann who often leads our Children and Fa...

Advent 1 (Hope). This year we follow a series produced by "A Sanctified Art" with the theme, "What Do You Fear? Insisting On Hope This Advent". Today we revisit the story we touched on last week of Zechariah and Elizabeth and dive deeper into t...

Reign of Christ/Christ the King Sunday. We begin today by looking at the text before today's text so that we have the full context of the message. Elizabeth and Zechariah are mature in years and have never had a child. While Zechariah is servin...

Visions of heaven a new earth fill our Christian imagination. One day God's new Kindom will come about. One day justice will be the way. One day all will live peaceably side by side. Children will be born, people will live long and the ways of ...

There are a myriad of theories and beliefs around the end of times. Some of them sound very convincing. Paul reminds the believers in Thessalonica to stay the course, remember what you were taught and to keep calm and carry on in fol...

The Revised Common Lectionary today offers a letter believed to have been written by the Apostle Paul with words of encouragement to a community of believers in Thessalonica. Under persecution, their faith and love for one another are growing s...

Every 3 years The United Church of Canada has a meeting where worship takes places with representatives from across Canada, the business of the national church is conducted and a new Moderator who is our head of the church is elected. Susan Joh...

Guest Preacher and Presider, The Reverend Maggie Watts-Hammond lead this service as Rev. Lauren was away. Hear Rev. Maggie's wonderful interpretation of the parable of "The Widow and the Unjust Judge". How can we who are called to offer words o...

"Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom" our Psalm says today. But there is more to 'fear of the Lord' than the surface level, English translation where we imagine being scared. In Hebrew the word for fear (yirah) is also translat...

From the Revised Common Lectionary offerings for this week we return to the Psalms, the mini-Bible, the songs and poetry of the Hebrew Bible. Today we look at Psalm 37, a Wisdom Psalm which seems to speak right into our time today with an age o...

A rich man who seems to be living easy and a poor man who has it rough and lives right outside the gates of the rich man's home. Two very different people and life circumstances. When they die, they find their roles reversed. The poor man is wi...

Today we hear the call to pray for Kings and those in positions of authority. We also learn a formula for structuring our prayers: ACTSI. Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplications and Intercession. We start by praising and adoring God....

This Sunday we welcomed guest preacher, Reverend Jay Olson. Rev. Jay has helped shepherd our church through 1 year with no clergy and 2 years with Lauren as a student minister. Today Lauren was officially sworn in as the minister of South Arm U...

Did Jesus really say, "Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters and even life itself cannot be my disciple"? And if so, what did he mean? First, did he say it? Maybe. Scripture records it ...

Again this Sunday we encounter Jesus on a Sabbath, with Pharisees (a sect of religious leaders who were very strict about following the law) and we're presented with a person in need of healing. Jesus asks if it is lawful to heal on the Sabbath...

This Sunday we examined the command to honour the Sabbath and keep it holy. In the synagogue on a Sabbath, Jesus sees a woman bent over for 18 years. She doesn't ask for help but he sees her, lays hands on her and pronounces her healed. She sta...

Last week we began exploring The Hall of Faith. We looked at some of the biggest names and stories we know in The Bible and how God works through people to accomplish God's plans. Today we continue with a few more such stories along with a warn...

Today we start a 2 week examination of what has been called The Hall of Faith, a 'whose who' of great Biblical figures we know and recognize. As we look at their lives we are reminded that God is awesome, God seeks relationship with all of us, ...

After Jesus finishing praying, one of the disciples asks Jesus how to pray. Jesus lays out a shorter form of what we know as "The Lord's Prayer". Following this, Jesus offers a metaphor of how we as humans who are beautiful and messy creatures ...

Today we welcomed back guest Minister, The Reverend Dr. Brian Thorpe. Hear as he shares from God's word and brings the text to life in our time and place.

Rev. Billy Graham is said to have prayed the Psalms daily, such that every 3 months he would have prayed aloud all 150 Psalms before starting again. The Psalms have been called a mini-Bible unto itself. In the Psalms we find the the full scope ...

In today's message we talk about being a gathered and sent people. Gathered into the church to worship, to hear a word from The Word, to pray and to encourage one another on in good works. And then we are sent out into the world to live out our...

Everyday we face a myriad of choices. In each moment we can choose to live by gratifying the desires of the flesh or the way of the Holy Spirit. Are we meant to subdue the flesh and live according to the Spirit 24/7 or is there a way to hold bo...

In Canada, June is Indigenous History Month and June 21st is National Indigenous Peoples Day. If honour of this, we were fortunate to have The Rev. Murray Pruden join us as our guest preacher and co-presider. Rev. Murray opened our service with...