A doctor met with his accountant to discuss one particular patient's long-overdue bill, which was causing the doctor a great deal of concern, since this doctor worked in private practise…
WORSHIP MATTERS, AND WORSHIP MATTERS Most Sundays I welcome you at the beginning of the service by saying something like “It’s good for us to be here together – whether…

Hidden In Plain Sight

January 10, 2020
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT Some of you may remember hearing this story before – but like all good stories, they’re worth hearing more than once – because sometimes, there is…

The Gift of Hope

December 16, 2019
(adapted from “Out of the Ordinary” by Joyce Rupp. p. 24) God of all those who yearn for a glimmer of Hope on the long journey home to you, come!…

The Great Rummage Sale

November 4, 2019
Many things that I read this past week seemed to be a clear invitation for me to continue the sermon from last Sunday as we consider the on-going re-formation of…

Reformation For Our Day

October 29, 2019
The last Sunday in October is the day that many Protestant churches set aside to remember the roots from which they came. On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther, the Augustinian…
This was another of those rare weeks when the sermon just wouldn’t coalesce. Ideas swirled around my head in a tangled mess for days. One thought would come and I…
(from Archbishop Desmond Tutu in the Forward to The Green Bible) At the centre of the Christian faith and the Bible is the Cross. Jesus is described as our peace,…

The Guy In The Skirt

July 10, 2019
THE GUY IN THE SKIRT In a town not much bigger than Kincardine, there was a Scottish Society Hall that had been maintained by the various families of the community,…