Category: Sermons

Reflections

Bear Fruit that Befits Repentance

Sherman Hesselgrave’s homily for Advent 2, December 8, 2019 Readings: Isaiah 11:1-10 Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19 Matthew 3:1-12 Nothing will spike blood pressure quite like hypocrisy.

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Reflections

Are You Woke?

It is now the hour to wake from your sleep! That’s the summons from the readings at the beginning of this Advent, as we embark

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Reflections

“how the light gets in”

A homily preached November 17, 2019 by Zach Grant Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That’s how the light

Climate Justice

Resisting Apocalypse

As I approached this service and read the appointed readings I was struck by the sense of end times captured there. In our present era

Climate Justice

“becoming available to the land”

George McKibbon,Environmental Planner, McKibbon Wakefield Inc. Let’s pray: may the words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable in your sight,

Reflections

Climbing Over Walls (Homily)

22 Sepember 2019 Readings: Amos 8:4-7 Psalm 113 Bonhoeffer (Letters and Papers from Prison) Luke 16:1-13 For the noontime Eucharist on Wednesdays, we usually commemorate