Wisdom and Awe- Matthew 2: 1-12 (January 3, 2020-Epiphany) I invite you to conjure for a moment in your mind images of wise people who have entered your life. What is it about these people that make them wise? What sets them apart from those you don’t consider so wise? It’s only natural to consider such a question on a day when…
You are not alone. Come share the journey.
You are not alone. Come share the journey.
Sermons by Rev. Joe Gaspar
Voices United Choir – Can You See the Light in Bethlehem Sunday School Activities Advent Devotion – Do Not Be Afraid Family Advent Calendar Burnt Barns, Moon Sightings and a Pandemic Christmas—Matthew 1: 18-25 This is the kind of week where preachers earn their pay, preaching joy in the midst of a pandemic Christmas. It was a week where I was reminded…
Voices United Choir – Jubilate Deo Sunday School Activities – Advent Advent Calendar for Families Devotional – Advent Reflection—Jeremiah 33: 14-16 (November 29, 2020—1st Sunday in Advent) I came across a quote this week that struck me as a fitting summary for the scripture reading, it goes like this, “Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if…
Sunday School Activities The Grace of Not Knowing—Matthew 25: 14-30 (November 15, 2020-24th Sunday after Pentecost) When I sit down to write a reflection part of my process is to go back and read what I’ve written previously. They’re little time capsules these old sermons. Reading them I’m reminded of what was going on in the world or the church at that…
Sunday School Activities Remembering the Saints—2 Timothy 4: 1-7 (November 1, 2020-22nd Sunday after Pentecost) On this All Saints Sunday we remember that the church of the 21st century stands on the shoulders of all those who like the writer of second Timothy fought the good fight and have now finished the race. They were people like us—faithful and unfaithful, righteous and…
Sunday School Activities Inseparable Love—Matthew 22: 34-40 (October 25, 2020-21st Sunday after Pentecost) My wife Andrea is a woman of many creative interests. Our homes over the years have housed sewing rooms, a stained glass work space, knitting baskets and wire bead jewellery supplies and equipment and more. For a while Andrea sold her wire bead jewellery at a market in Rosseau…
Going With the Grain—Matthew 21: 23-32 (September 27, 2020-17th Sunday after Pentecost) Have you ever used a hand planer on a piece of wood? Wood has a grain, or a direction in which it naturally grew when it was still part of a tree. If you plane in the direction of the grain it involves an easy gliding motion and your finished…
A lot of people have trouble with this parable. How did it strike you? I think for a lot of us this parable offends our sense of fairness. Why should everyone get equal pay for unequal work? It doesn’t make sense. This parable enters our hearts like cod liver oil or Buckley’s cough syrup— you know Jesus is right, you know it…
Faith Story-Rev. Joe Gaspar September 6, 2020 It’s my turn. It’s only fair that after a number of you shared your faith stories over the last two years that your Ministers would begin to share theirs. Going through the process this week of figuring out what I’m going to say has given me a renewed appreciation for everyone who has shared their…
Reflection—Matthew 16: 21-28 (August 30, 2020-13th Sunday after Pentecost) I wonder if those of you who are old enough remember the game show Let’s Make a Deal. Each Let’s Make a Deal began with the host, Monty Hall choosing a studio audience member at random to play a game against him. Although the games were always different, the usual pattern was that…