Mark 12: 28-34 Sunday School Activities 23rd Sunday after Pentecost) Don’t you love it when things are simple? Albert Einstein once said, “When the answer is simple then God is answering.” Love God, love your neighbour as yourself. It’s simple—in the same way that running a marathon is simply moving your legs quickly for twenty-six miles, in the same way that losing…
You are not alone. Come share the journey.
You are not alone. Come share the journey.
Sermons on Mark
Mark 9:38-50 Sunday School Activities Confession time. This week’s gospel reading had me pretty fired up. I apologized to our Scripture reader, Gary, numerous times because this was such a difficult passage content-wise. How is this good news? Even my family couldn’t escape my exasperated laments about this reading – so much so that at dinner one night my daughter told me to stop being so…
Mark 8: 27-37 Sunday School Activities 17th Sunday after Pentecost) I try to imagine the experience of the people around Jesus in the faith story this morning, walking along a road, a dirt road, dust kicked up with every step. They’re bantering back and forth, maybe talking about how great it is to be in Jesus’ company. Maybe being itinerant they’re wondering where their next meal will be. Then Jesus asks innocently enough, “who do people say that I…
Mark 7: 24-30 (15th Sunday after Pentecost) There is a story of a person that is pulled over by the police and asked for their license and registration. “What’s wrong, officer,” the driver asks. The officer says, “well I saw you waving your fist as you swerved around the lady driving in the left lane, and I observed your flushed and angry face as you shouted at the driver who cut you off.” “Is that a…
Sunday School Activities Mark 11: 1-11 If you follow me on Facebook, you’ll know that I’m heartbroken and angry about the state of the world right now. But, let me begin with one year ago. Last year for Palm Sunday, at the beginning of the pandemic I compared the inner struggle and courage of essential workers to the inner struggle and courage…
Sunday School Activities Mark 1:9-15 It’s almost fitting that Mark is our lectionary gospel ushering us into the season of Lent this year. How perfect on a Sunday when we have our Annual Meeting afterwards that Mark keeps it short and sweet and gives us the overview of Jesus’ baptism, temptation and launch into ministry. Unlike Matthew and Luke, Mark offers no…
Sunday School Activities Mark 1:14-20 Last week I was invited by two of the Regions in The United Church to serve as chaplain for students having their final interviews as they prepare to be ordained or commissioned in The United Church of Canada. While it was certainly a bit different – having to be fully virtual via Zoom – the experience brought…
Sunday School Activities Baptism of Jesus Alan Watts, British-born philosopher and writer, once said, “To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead, you relax, and float.” When I was doing my student chaplaincy at the Mississauga Hospital, I used to…
Community and Change-Letting Go-Jeremiah 1: 14-16 & Mark 2: 18-22 (February 2, 2020) Here is another light bulb joke for you, how many Anglicans does it take to change a light bulb? The answer—ten, one to change the light bulb and nine to say how much they liked the old one. It can be hard to let go of the old, even…