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  • Sunday Reflection – October 16, 2022

      Justice for the Faithful Luke 18 Jesus was telling them a parable about their need to pray continuously and not to be discouraged. 2 He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected people. 3 In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him, asking, ‘Give me justice in this…

  • Kids Korner: Giving Justice (October 16th)

    Read Luke 18:1-8 with your family. This is one of Jesus’ harder parables. Both the widow and the judge are not nice people. The Bible uses the word ‘justice’ but in the original language the widow wanted ‘vengeance’, meaning she wanted the other people punished. The judge was scared she would punch him in the…

  • Sunday Reflection – Thanksgiving Sunday, October 9, 2022

      Bread of Life John 6 25 When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?” 26 Jesus replied, “I assure you that you are looking for me not because you saw miraculous signs but because you ate all the food you wanted. 27 Don’t work for the food…

  • Kids Korner: Thanksgiving Sunday (October 9th)

    Read Luke 17:5-10 with your family. This is one of those hard-to-understand parts of the Bible, but on Thanksgiving Sunday the image of God being greater than food fits into our celebration of God being the source of life that gives us everything we need to live and make a new world where everyone has…

  • Sunday Reflection – October 2, 2022

      Increasing Faith Luke 17 5 The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” 6 The Lord replied, “If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you. 7 “Would any of you say to your servant, who had…

  • Kids Korner: Growing our faith (October 2nd)

    Read Luke 17:5-10 with your family. Sometimes when we read the stories in the Bible some words jump out at us and that is all we focus on. The word “slave” is one of those. Most of us only know the slavery that happened in the USA 150 years ago, a slavery based in racism.…

  • Sunday Reflection – September 25, 2022

      Lazarus and the Rich Man Luke 16 19 “There was a certain rich man who clothed himself in purple and fine linen, and who feasted luxuriously every day. 20 At his gate lay a certain poor man named Lazarus who was covered with sores. 21 Lazarus longed to eat the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Instead,…

  • Kids Korner: Lazarus & the Rich Man (September 25th)

    Read Luke 16:19-31 with your family. If Luke 15 was the chapter about the lost things, then Luke 16 is about how rich people don’t understand Jesus’ teachings. The story today is what we call ‘apocryphal’, meaning it is just a story, not a prediction, and it is meant to both fill us with hope…

  • Sunday Reflection – September 18, 2022

      Faithful with Money Luke 16 Jesus also said to the disciples, “A certain rich man heard that his household manager was wasting his estate. 2 He called the manager in and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give me a report of your administration because you can no longer serve as my manager.’ 3 “The…

  • Kids Korner: How to use money (September 18th)

    Read Luke 16:1-13 with your family. Money is one of the hardest conversations to have in the church. It was like that in Jesus’ day too. For some, getting rich was a sure sign that God favoured them. However, Jesus taught people that God didn’t value money, God valued relationships and how we shared what…