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  • Kids Korner: Preparing to follow Jesus (September 7th)

    Read Luke 14:25-33 with your family. We spend a lot of time talking about God’s call to help people who need our help and what we can do to help them. But we do not spend as much time talking about our plan for how to help, and what we need to have with us…

  • What is wrong with being wrong?

    What is wrong with asking questions first rather than jumping to conclusions? Several years ago I passed a rally where recently ‘born again’ new Christians were trying to convince others that what they experienced was the way to real faith. They were definitely caught up in the excitement of something new. I got into a…

  • Sunday Reflection – August 31, 2025

    Pick the less important seat Luke 14 One Sabbath, Jesus was having dinner in the home of an important Pharisee, and everyone was carefully watching Jesus. 7 Jesus saw how the guests had tried to take the best seats. So he told them: 8  When you are invited to a wedding feast, don’t sit in the best…

  • Kids Korner: Act with humility (August 31st)

    Read Luke 14:1, 7-14 with your family. Have you ever been to a wedding? Lots of times kids and teenager are never invited, but sometimes they are. When you get to the reception it is usually a big hall, and almost every table has cards that say who is supposed to sit where. The people…

  • Should we pray for a revival?

    During congregational prayers this past Sunday, one of the older men said he wanted to pray for a revival of the church. He of course meant the church that he remembered from his youth, probably 1950’s or 1960’s. In his memory that was when the church was really good, when his social life revolved round…

  • Sunday Reflection – August 24, 2025

    Healing on the Sabbath Luke 13 10 One Sabbath, Jesus was teaching in a synagogue, 11 and a woman was there who had been crippled by an evil spirit for 18 years. She was completely bent over and could not straighten up. 12 When Jesus saw the woman, he called her over and said, “You are now well.” 13 He placed his…

  • Kids Korner: Jesus heals on the Sabbath (August 24th)

    Read Luke 13:10-17 with your family. Less than one hundred years ago, people were still treating Sunday as a day when nothing except attending church and reading the Bible was supposed to happen. Children were expected to be quiet and not play outside. There was no shopping of any kind. People did not run errands.…

  • Leaving toxic people behind

    I was asked recently about toxic people and if we should keep forgiving them, the whole 70×7 and turn the other cheek stuff. To be honest, those two passages have been used to justify a lot of abuse and unacceptable behaviour, and we have to rewrite those scripts. Toxic people are draining and inconsiderate, and…

  • Sunday Reflection – August 17, 2025

    Trouble, not peace Luke 12 49 I came to set fire to the earth, and I wish it were already on fire! 50  I am going to be put to a hard test. And I will have to suffer a lot of pain until it is over. 51 Do you think that I came to bring peace to earth? No…

  • Kids Korner: Following Jesus can be hard (August 17th)

    Read Luke 12:49-56 with your family. One of the things we teach children is to be nice like Jesus was nice. But anyone who has been bullied or ignored can tell you sometimes being nice is not always the best answer. The lesson today is very hard for adults to hear, so it can be…