Sermons from March 2015

Dead Man Walking

Who doesn’t love a parade? I do – I remember when I was a little girl we used to put on a parade just for the sake of having a parade – we have a pictures of me and my sisters and the neighbourhood kids all decked out in our fancy duds with our bikes all decorated to parade down the streets of our subdivision singing and dancing having a wonderful time – a parade just because it was fun – who doesn’t love a parade?

Facing Fear

CBC had a facinating program on Doc Zone a while back.  It was called the ‘Age of Anxiety’.   It was a program that examined our society’s leanings towards anxiety and how Anxiety is becoming one of the fastest growing medicalized treated disorder in our culture –it also looked at the pharmisical companies and how fast…

Ticked Off

The Gospel reading this morning struck a chord with me this week as I struggle to find a way to harness and constructively funnel an anger that continues to grow inside of me. Many of you know that I work in the office at Trinity United downtown. For the most part, I have to say…

Free Falling

There was once small plane with 5 passengers on it. Halfway to their destination, the engines started sputtering and failing. The pilot came out from behind the curtain wearing a parachute pack on his back. He said, “Friends, I have some bad new and some good news. The bad news is we have an engine…