Life Between Sundays
If what you believe makes no difference then it makes no difference what you believe. - KICheck this page for church news items, pastoral perspectives, prayer requests and miscellaneous other “stuff”
Ambassadors or Adversaries
We have a choice to make ... will we choose to be ambassadors or adversaries in our relationship to the world around us. We cannot do both. If we are to impact society, we must learn to develop relationships with the people that we live and work among. To discharge...
Unity and Diversity
One of the many things that I enjoy about being home is that time, space and friends are directly tied to memories. And shared memories are the best. Living abroad, memories were more short-term. The longest period of time that we spent in a single location was 16...
From The Heart
Storm Chips ... It really is a thing and it is ours. The phenomenon can be traced back to a casual on-air conversation in 2014. Stephanie Domet, who hosted the Mainstreet Halifax program on CBC Radio One, made an offhand remark about her plans to pick up some chips...
The One and Only
In our last church, in Fredericton, we were blessed to have a wonderful Christian lady who happened to be a doctor. Often, professionals such as doctors, lawyers, pharmacists, accountants are never off-duty when they come to a Sunday church service. You know what I...
He Remains Faithful …
This is one of those scriptures that I cling to. "If we are faithless, He remains faithful." Paul's encouragement to Timothy. I am so conscious of my tendency to faithlessness. There is a bad edit in this sermon that may leave you shaking your head. Somehow I lost a...
PEACE … Life’s Essential Context
Peace … it’s an inside out thing but like so many other faith concepts, our tendency is to make it just the opposite. If we can order our outside world according to our liking and manage or control it then we assume that everything will be okay internally. But the propensity to manage and control is the very problem that makes our ends, so elusive. It creates the internal chaos that makes peace impossible.
The Advent themes: Hope, Peace, Joy and Love strike at the very heart of our desire to find our way independent of God and others.
This week we are highlighting the Peace that comes to us in relationship with God. It is the peace that you bring to life that matters, not the peace that you believe that you can find in life itself. We’ll chat that through in the CLC-ish way today, praying that God communicates Himself to you in the way that you most need Him.
The audio message is posted from last week.
There is a reminder of next week’s change in agenda … read and share please.
Isn’t it amazing how easy and blessed an experience that we can find when we choose to focus on the Christ whose birthday season we celebrate? It still amazes me
Advent 2023 Hope …
What does hope look like? It's the difference between going forward passionately and going backward or simply giving up. It is a conviction that things are never as bad as they seem and that there is always a "way". Hope looks for the good and rejoices in it as...
The Power of Personal Testimony
Earlier this fall, I received a call from Courtney, asking me to baptize her husband, Brad. I was at once, surprised and delighted. I had known Brad for sometime as a very pleasant young man but was unaware of his spiritual interest levels. I was surprised as it...
Rationale for a Changed Life
Transformation is vastly different than behavior modification. Behaviour is a natural outgrowth of transformation. So much of religion insisists on observable change and rejects people until they are sufficiently spiritually encultured. At CLC we walk with the wounded...
Acts of Remembrance
Praise The Lord!
To come and sit in a Sunday service, when all is well, and listen to a well-manicured service and sermon, is no real test. It is in the ragged and rugged experinces of life that we discover what really inhabits our hearts. Praise that comes from the prison is more...
Dealing With Controversy
A former mentor used the term, "Spit-in-your-face" culture in in reference to a time when Facebook and rampant conspiracy theories were not a thing. Today they are and the damage done by our inability or unwillingness to understand one another, is inestimable. This is...
Settling Short of God’s Promise
Some people are never satisfied. Achievements and acquisitions fail to meet aspirations and fuel that insatiable desire for more. The problem is that more is never enough. Others are too easily satisfied and lack motivation. The middle ground may be the best. The...
Knowing God
We get to know some people quickly and deeply. Other relationship are paced more slowly. Generally if we are to truly understand another person it requires two essential ingredients. Time and proximity. Jesus built a relationship with hsi disciples in this way. For...
Contentment
Mark Sumner installed some cupboards for us this week, along with a counter top over our washer and dryer. I was the unskilled labor, an extra set of hands. Two of the most elusive aspects of carpentry, to me, seem to be the idea of square and level. To ignore these...
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