It’s the last Sunday of the church year, the Reign of Christ the King. I hadn’t planned to begin a sermon on the Reign of Christ by speaking about Don Cherry, but the issue fits so well, so here goes. If you live in Canada, you’d have to have been living under a rock not to know the national outrage around the comments made by Don Cherry just before Remembrance Day. Read more →

Faith is personal, but never private.  How do you react to that statement?  Are you someone who thinks that your faith is between you and God and that no one else needs to know the details or are you someone who believes that faith has a social dimension that cannot be ignored? Read more →

I remember being at a conference addressing the decline of our denomination. It seems that we’ve been having these kinds of conferences for a long time now. Read more →

Today we mark All Saints Sunday in the church calendar.  The date of All Saints is actually November 1, but most Protestant churches that celebrate All Saints mark it on the Sunday following November 1. You don’t hear a lot of sermons for All Saint’s Day in Presbyterian churches. Read more →

Stories invite us to identify with a character and parables are no different. When we hear a parable, our inclination is to identify with someone, some character, in the parable. It might be the Good Samaritan, or the Prodigal Son, but we tend to identify with someone. This morning we hear the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector, and our identification seems a foregone conclusion. Read more →

We just read three scripture readings according to the lectionary. Those texts share one theme in common: God’s protection. Read more →

What are your best memories of Thanksgiving? Maybe it’s around a table with family, with great food, with turkey, ham, with all the fixings? Maybe Thanksgiving is a time when your family gets together. Read more →

When our children were younger I would share a reading from scripture with them each night. Usually it was the passage I was preaching on that week and I shared the same passage each night of the week. Read more →

I wonder how many of you would know who Alex Biega is? Biega is a hockey player; he’s a defenseman for the Vancouver Canucks and he holds the distinction of being the lowest paid player on the team. Actually, he’s one of 52 players in the NHL who are making the minimum salary. Read more →