Recent Sermons

Seventeenth Sunday of Pentecost – September 16, 2018 Mark 8:27-38; Psalm 19 and James 3:1-12 There’s a family I know who has shared a little piece of their lives with me. They had reached a stage that was incredibly busy and challenging because all three sons had reached their teenage years. (Lord help them if it was three teenage girls!). One evening their family dynamics were at an all time lo...
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Sixteenth Sunday of Pentecost – September 9, 2018 The sermon was preached by the Rev. Bert de Bruijn from Lacombe, Alberta
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Fifteenth Sunday of Pentecost - September 2, 2018 Psalm 15 and James 1-17-27  How many of us remember, at one time or another, hearing a sermon preached and then saying, “Wow, I really hope my friend or family member so and so was listening. They really needed to hear that”? How often don’t we think the Word applies to everyone but us? Let’s maintain the attitude, “Lord, is there something You w...
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Fourteenth Sunday of Pentecost - August 26, 2018 Psalm 84 and John 6:56-71 Our gospel passages for the past four Sundays have been from John chapter 6. It has been about Jesus describing Himself as the Bread of Life. Each time it was connected with the sacraments, both of Holy Communion as well as Baptism. Today is the fifth and last Sunday from John chapter 6. Here the gospel-writer turns towar...
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Thirteenth Sunday of Pentecost - August 19, 2018 1 Kings 2:10-12, 3:3-14; Psalm 111; Ephesians 5:15-20 and John 6:51-58 There is a popular song that the Irish singer and songwriter Bono sings, “I still haven’t found what I’m looking for.” The first three verses go like this:  I have climbed the highest mountains I have run through the fields Only to be with you Only to be with you ...
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Twelfth Sunday of Pentecost - August 12, 2018 1 Kings 19:4-8 and Psalm 34:1-8; Ephesians 4:25-5:2; John 6:35, 41-51 When God acts, we tend to think it has to happen with bolts of lightning and huge miraculous events. Of course we all know that it’s anything between the ordinary and the very extraordinary. God is God exactly because God acts in marvelous ways, but is present in all we experience....
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Eleventh Sunday of Pentecost - August 5, 2018 Exodus 16:2-4, 9-15; Psalm 78:23-39; Ephesians 4:1-16 and John 6:24-35 Suprises—pleasant surprises, who doesn’t like pleasant surprises? They break the dull, the routine, the blah of life and give us new views to keep life full of adventure. Having our days spiced up can be fun. Even some bright, crisp and clear new flowers in our garden can fill us ...
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Tenth Sunday of Pentecost - July 29, 2018 2 Kings 4:42-44; Psalm 145:10-18; Ephesians 3:14-21 and John 6:1-21 Every once in a while a young man falls in love with a woman, we all know that. You might be in your twenties and then there’s this woman that appears all out the blue and she knocks all common sense out of your life. How does this man make it known? He pursues her with his love and purs...
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Ninth Sunday of Pentecost - July 22, 2018 Matthew 4:12–23; 1 Corinthians 1:10–18 and Isaiah 9:1–4 This past week in VBS, our theme has been ‘Gone Fishing’. We had lessons that covered stories about Noah and Jonah from the Old Testament, and then we transitioned over to stories about Jesus’ ministry, beginning with the calling of the first disciples on the shores of Galilee to the miracle of the ...
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Eighth Sunday after Pentecost - July 15, 2018 Galatians 5:22-23 and Romans 7:15-25 At the conclusion of the four-part series of messages on the fruit of the Spirit this morning, we are looking at the three last fruit, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Now we’ve already focused on the first six fruit. Today we’re going to come to the last three of the fruit of the Spirit. We’re focusin...
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