Category: Sermons

Reflections given as sermons or homilies at a public service. Members of our community take it in turns to preach to the whole community.

Ripe for the Harvest

a wooden tripod stands outside a number of huts

3rd Sunday of Lent A Sermon from Joanna Manning We read from Exodus the Romans and the Gospel of John. Homily is provided by Joanna Manning and service coordinated by Bill Whitla, Presided by Rev. Pam Trondson, readers include Kevin Bezanson, Bill Aide, Len Desroches and Ann Bisch.

Faith in Love

sunset above the clouds

Second Sunday of Lent A Sermon from Len Desroches We read from the Letter of Paul to the Romans and the Gospel of John. Homily is provided by Leonard Desroches and service coordinated by Beth Baskin, Presided by Rev. James Ferry, readers include Dianna Rogers and Joanna Manning.

Christ be our light

two rows of votive candles burning in the dark

Fifth Sunday after Epiphany – Sunday Gathering A Sermon from Joanna Manning This week we read from Isaiah, Book of Psalm and the Gospel According to Matthew. The sermon is offered by Joanna Manning, readers include Marilyn Dolmage, Kimberley Yetman Dawson and Len Desroches, musical coordination from Allison Leyton-Brown and service coordinated by Pam Trondson.

Force of Love

An orange peace sign painted in graffiti over a mish-mash of other graffiti.

Fourth Sunday after Epiphany – Sunday Gathering A Sermon from Leonard Desroches This week we read from Micah and Gospel According to Matthew. The sermon is offered by Leonard Desroches, readers include Marilyn Dolmage and Rob Shropshire, musical coordination from Allison Leyton-Brown and service coordinated by Vivian Harrower.

How do we inhabit this place?

looking across the Grand River at the forest on the other side

Keith Nunn co-ordinator, preacher and presiderAllison Leyton-Brown music co-ordinatorDave Butko technical co-ordinator Sermon only

The question of healing

Teepees set up near Qu'appelle Indian school 1885

I won’t spend time this morning on the dispute between Jesus and the Pharisees about the question of of healing someone on the sabbath. Instead I will focus on the question of healing itself, prompted by the story of a healing in today’s gospel reading.  I’ll just offer a few reflections  and raise a few […]

Turning the other cheek and radical nonviolence

Photo of marchers wearing "I am a man" signs at the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike

By Len DesrochesAugust 7, 2022 To someone like MLK or Dorothy Day reading the gospels is an affirmation of radical nonviolence. There are also scripture scholars who have a personal commitment to reading the gospels from the perspective of radical nonviolence. Two of these are Walter Wink and Clarence Jordan. Wink once expressed his perspective […]

“Open wide your hand”

sunset over low mountains with a desert city in the distance

A Sermon from Joanna Manning In the spring of 2008, I met Julia Esquivel, whose poem we have just heard. I was in my first year of training for ordination and I had got permission to do part of my internship at the church in Santa Maria del Quiche, high up in the mountains of […]