As we begin this season of Advent, I will begin each Sunday with a story from the news that concerns our theme.  On this the first Sunday of Advent, our theme is hope.  The opposite of hope is despair.  I want to begin by reading from the Vancouver Sun this week a story of despair so that by the end of this sermon we might also understand how we can be a people of hope as an Advent people. Read more →

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 →