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.

Introduction 

Let’s play a classic little game. 

Brothers and sisters look behind you.

I’m ready. Come and find me…

Playing is an important part of life. Relationships develop and transform through play.  Not only is it  essential for children’s development. People of all ages grow...

Merry Christmas to you, on this the Second Sunday of Christmas. 

The birth narratives of manger and child, shepherds and sheep, angels and holy family, star and stable, have echoed throughout song and scripture for these 12 days; imprinted into our imaginations once again. 

Today, on this last day of Christmas...