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  • Sunday Reflection – October 29, 2023

    Greatest Commandment & Who is the Messiah Matthew 22 34 After Jesus had made the Sadducees look foolish, the Pharisees heard about it and got together. 35  One of them was an expert in the Jewish Law. So he tried to test Jesus by asking, 36 “Teacher, what is the most important commandment in the Law?” 37  Jesus answered: Love the…

  • Kids Korner: Loving ourselves (Oct. 29th)

    Read Matthew 22:34-46 with your family. What does it mean to be a Christian? Jesus answered that one: it means we have to love God above all else and love everyone else like we love ourselves AND we have to love ourselves like we love everyone else. Often people think there was only two parts…

  • Arrogance and presumptuousness of the Abrahamic traditions

    That’s a fancy title, but it gets at the heart of what I think is happening in the Middle East. Like almost everyone else in the world my news channels have been bringing stories of the happenings from kidnapping to humanitarian crisis, and all the terrorism in between. All of us are watching a crisis…

  • Sunday Reflection – October 22, 2023

    Give back to God the things that come from God Matthew 22 15 The Pharisees got together and planned how they could trick Jesus into saying something wrong. 16 They sent some of their followers and some of Herod’s followers to say to him, “Teacher, we know that you are honest. You teach the truth about what God wants…

  • Kids Korner: Give to God (Oct. 22nd)

    Read Matthew 22:15-22 with your family. Many people know this story, even if they don’t attend Sunday school or church regularly. But why was this a trick and why did Jesus know it was a trick? When Jesus was a small child, another person from Galilee named Judas (not any of Jesus’ friends and followers)…

  • Sunday Reflection – October 15, 2023

    Parable about the rich landowner and tenants Matthew 22 Once again Jesus used stories to teach the people: 2 The kingdom of heaven is like what happened when a king gave a wedding banquet for his son. 3 The king sent some servants to tell the invited guests to come to the banquet, but the guests refused. 4 He sent…

  • Kids Korner: Get ready for the banquet (Oct. 15th)

    Read Matthew 22:1-14 with your family. In our story today Jesus continues to use parables to tell the leaders in the temple that they are not doing a good job of representing God to the people. This time Jesus compares God to a King who wants to hold a special wedding feast for his son…

  • Thanksgiving

    This week we celebrated Thanksgiving in Canada. It’s not a day covered in myths of the past, it’s just a simple time of families and friends gathering together to appreciate the good things in life and the food from the harvest. It’s a celebration I look forward to every year. This year I had the…

  • Sunday Reflection – October 8, 2023

    Parable about the rich landowner and tenants Matthew 21 33  Jesus told the chief priests and leaders to listen to this story: A land owner once planted a vineyard. He built a wall around it and dug a pit to crush the grapes in. He also built a lookout tower. Then he rented out his vineyard…

  • Kids Korner: The rich landowner and the tenants (Oct. 8th)

    Read Matthew 21:33-46 with your family. Sometimes we have to listen very carefully to what Jesus meant in his parables, and sometimes we don’t have to wonder at all. In this parable the priests who were listening knew Jesus was talking about them and about how they had not respected or accepted the messengers from…