May 8, 2022Acts 16: 16-34Easter 4 One day, back when I worked at the newspaper, the newsroom was in the lull between putting the day’s edition to bed and starting work on the next day’s paper. Click here for service Three or four of us had gathered in the graphic artists’ work area to chat about something … probably what we were…

May 1, 2022Acts 9: 19-19Easter 3 Saul is sitting on the edge of a bed in a room in Damascus. Click here for service Three days earlier, he and his companions from Jerusalem were on the way to the northern city. He carried a letter from the religious leaders that gave him the authority to arrest followers of Jesus and bring them…

April 17, 2022EasterJohn 20: 1-18 Mary Magdalene arrives at Jesus’ tomb in the early morning light. She wants to pay homage to her teacher.  Perhaps, out of a sense of devotion to Jesus, she has come to offer a prayer borne from the sense of profound grief she carries with her.  Mary Magdalene had been with Jesus through his ministry. She had…

Maundy ThursdayApril 14, 2022John 19: 23-30 One of my memories from my days in Manitoba more than five decades ago, was camping on the shores of Lake Winnipeg. Back then, my parents and their friends pitched tents on the sandy shoreline on the lake’s southern end.  I don’t recall a lot about that trip … we did a lot of camping back…

April 10, 2022Palm SundayJohn 12: 12-27; 19: 16b-22God’s grace and peace be with you and within your hearts this morning. We’re making a bit of a jump backwards today. Click here for service The past two Sundays we heard how the chief priests and religious authorities have maneuvered Pilate to send Jesus to his death by crucifixion. This morning, the lectionary composers…

April 3, 2022John 19: 1-16aLent 5 Today, we continue our journey to the foot of the cross. Last week, the high priest had sent Jesus to Pontus Pilate, the Roman governor. Click here for service The religious authorities want Jesus eliminated, but they lack the power to make that happen … only Rome holds the legal power of life and death in the…

March 27, 2022John 18: 28-40Lent 4 Last week, we left Jesus in front of the high priest … being questioned about his teaching and his ministry while Peter remained by the fire in the courtyard … denying all connections to Jesus and to his fellow disciples. In essence, Peter denies his identity to those who question him. Click here for service This…

March 20, 2022John 18: 12-27Lent 3 Some of us have seen this in the movies or we may have experienced this in our much younger days in elementary or high school. Click here for service We’ve got our crowd … those people whose interests or perspectives mesh almost perfectly with our own. We like the same music … or we like the…

March 6, 2022John 11: 1-44During a Lenten video series released couple of years ago,  theologian Dwight Petersen offered his thoughts on his then-impending death.  Click here for service Petersen was interviewed while he lay in the hospice where he stayed after he received his terminal diagnosis.  Petersen told the interviewer that the message at the heart of the Gospel … and the message…

February 27, 2022John 9: 1-41Kasandra has cerebral palsy and is blind. Click here for service She makes her way in the world with a white cane in hand. At home, her husband’s therapeutic touch helps ease the pain that the palsy carries throughout her body. About four years ago, Kasandra was interviewed for a video entitled “Disability in Heaven” by the Centre…