Monthly Archives: July 2008

"With sighs too deep for words"

Last night in worship, we found ourselves deep into the eighth chapter of Paul’s letter to the Romans, in which Paul offers one of his most evocative phrases:   Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do

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Who's a part of this table…

Who’s a part of this table, and why we don’t pass a plate…   So, on a fairly regular basis I’ll be having coffee with someone who has come out and joined us at worship a few times, and they’ll

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"God is the Interesting Thing…"

Sometime in the late 1930′s, the Anglican thinker and writer Evelyn Underhill wrote a letter to Cosmo Lang, then the Archbishop of Canterbury.  In her letter, she reflected on just what it is she believed the church needed to be

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Rest in peace, rise in glory

a nod to Oliver Schroer, for taking his audience on his pilgrimage of faith The Canadian violinist Oliver Schroer made one of my favourite albums of all time, Camino, which actually appears on this site in my list of my

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Come to me, all who labour and are heavy-laden…

Robert Farrar Capon intrudes on yet another sermon… Just home from our Sunday evening worship, and wanted to post this one right away.  Part of the gospel reading tonight included those wonderful words from the Gospel according to Matthew:  “Come

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Songs for the train

album sampler F or the better part of two years, our community was fortunate to number Jenny Moore-Koslowsky among our regular songwriters and music leaders. In the months leading up to her departure in the fall of 2007 to pursue

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