Monthly Archives: November 2008
Against cheap grace
… and compromised proclamation A sermon preached by Dr Christopher Holmes at saint benedict’s table on November 9, 2008 “We Christians are quite skilled at baptizing ways of life that are contrary to the ways of Christ,” or so claims
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Prayer of the people | November 23
R emake us, O Lord, with your deep and abiding love; when we stray, call us home; when we are filled with resentment, unsettle us by your mercy; as we experience forgiveness, convict us also of our own need to
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The Father Empties His Coffers
A Poet Takes Hold of the Prodigal Son A s the rest of this society ramps right up for its version of Christmas, in the church calendar we’re just about to move into the new church year, which begins on
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Prayer of the people | November 16
F ather, we come to worship on this Remembrance Week in quietness and stillness. We remember the soldiers from WW1, WW2, the Korean and Vietnam Wars and for present-day combatants. May our minds not so much focus on the utility
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A Piece of our History
This address was posted on an earlier version of our site, and it occurred to me that it is again time to give people the opportunity to take a look at a chapter of our Christian history that is well
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Dylan and the liturgy
It is not often that I have reason to write about “unique” Sunday liturgies; after all, part of what makes a liturgical church tick is its steady and ongoing use of an anchoring liturgical form. But every once in a
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Prayer of the people | November 9
We pray for the needs of the world, for the political struggles of Zimbabwe. We pray for the children killed and those still trapped in the school which collapsed in Haiti. We give thanks for the Canadian reporter freed after
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A Preached Litany for the Feast of All Saints
On this past Sunday, November 2, our community observed the Feast of All Saints’. In place of a conventional sermon, the following “preached litany” was offered as a way of helping us to engage the fact that whoever and whatever
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"For the Time Being"
Reading W.H. Auden through Advent and Christmas F or the past couple of years, as part of my observance of Advent and Christmas I’ve made it my practice to read W.H. Auden’s cycle of poems, For the Time Being: