Good morning, children of God! 

I hope you are all managing okay in the safety of your house. 

What have you been doing? Have you built some tents? Doing crafts? Writing messages on the sidewalks? Playing with lego?  I hope you are helping with chores. Some of your Sunday school teachers have been sewing masks. 

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We are feeling like dried-up, disconnected bones, and we wonder:

will we ever get back to normal?

John 4:5-42

Sometimes scripture has words, phrases, images, questions that leap off the page.  Today I have such an experience when I read, and echo, the words of the disciples:

Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?

The disciples are really asking: why is there pain in the world?  Why is...

Dear St. Matthews family and our wider community,

This week the World Health Organization declared the Coronovirus to be a pandemic.  Covid - 19 has now come closer to home and we feel it is now our responsibility to take greater precautions as recommended by Health Canada .

Your Pastoral Team and Board of Directors wrestled...

But we need to move from a pessimistic nostalgia 

To a hopeful optimism, together, for the future,

Based on the resources of the past and present.

Both the Gospel and our sending hymn - Bless Now, O God, the Journey intrigue me. For my sermon, I’d like the two to have a conversation. 

Bless now, O God the journey that all your people make, the path through noise and silence, the way of give and take. The trail is found in desert and winds the mountain round, then leads beside...

90 years later, we no longer have a St. Matthews Brotherhood, 

or a Witness committee, 

or any group committed to evangelism, 

and this is perhaps indicative of some of our problems.

The children’s message and sermon were combined today for the Intergenerational Worship experience. 

In the Gospel today we hear,

You are the salt of the earth. 

You are light of the world.  

Jesus was gathered on the hillside beside the Sea of Galilee. Many people were gathered with him. They...

Introduction 
 

There is no shortage of controversy in the world today.   

Controversy, hideous, heart breaking and historical. 

Controversy sells and we are consumers. Tabloid headlines of news that isn’t really news. Creating controversy where there really is none.

In the day to day,...

Martin Luther, from where we get the word “Lutheran” 

was a Catholic, 

both small c and capital C.