In the context of worship on Sunday September 25, we offered a simple liturgy of blessing for the marriage of Jaylene Johnson and Scott Urwin. This sermon on the parable of the man who had two sons (Matthew 21:23-32) ends
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“As a Gentile and a tax collector”
A sermon on Matthew 18:15-20 F irst of all, a bit of an apology. The way the lectionary cycle of readings is set up, the next several weeks are going present this preacher with a serious conundrum. Week after week,
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In this post, our favourite long-distance saint ben’s member Byron O’Donnell muses on the failure of much contemporary faith-based music to deal with the pains and challenges of life in the real world. A veteran musician and songwriter, Byron currently
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A sermon on Romans 9:1-5 A s was the case a couple of weeks ago, with the forecast suggesting that this was going to be a hot and humid night, I decided to craft a slightly shorter sermon than usual… Oh
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The last of three essays by Davis Plett I n the first of these three essays, I said that I would attempt to describe three things: a problem (the darkness and desertion of the adolescent), a solution (poetry to give
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a sermon on Romans 8.26-39 O ver the course of July, the lectionary has had us working our way through portions of Paul’s letter to the Romans, and each week I basically have had to set aside any presumption of
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O ne of my wife’s running jokes regarding the shape of my ministry is that “Jamie goes for coffee for a living.” Truth be told, I do a great deal of my pastoral work over cups of coffee. Not that
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The second of three essays by Davis Plett I n the last essay, I attempted to show the sealed door that exists between the adult and the teenager: the sorry plight both of the adolescent world, its chosen and unchosen
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The first of three essays by Davis Plett “Well,” she said, “I am seventeen and crazy.” Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury T his is the first of three essays which will attempt to present a problem, a solution and a
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A sermon on Romans 7:15-25a O ver the next month and a half, the lectionary cycle of readings will take us into the Letter of Paul to the Romans. I’m not sure why the lectionary designers thought it a good idea
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