Sermons
Apr. 22 Reflection-Earth Sunday
Loraine MacKenzie Shepherd and Amanda Davis Genesis 1:1-27 Reflection: Loraine’s Introduction Earth Sunday God has created a living, breathing earth, one entity with multiple expressions of life. We are part of one global ecosystem, in which its various sub-ecosytems …Read more
Open Mindedness
Loraine MacKenzie Shepherd April 15, 2018 Luke 24:36b-48 Last week we listened to the Easter story of gracious power teaching us how to be open-handed. Today, another Easter story teaches us to be open-minded. …Read more
A Resurrected Life of Promise
Loraine MacKenzie Shepherd Easter Sunday April 1, 2018 Mark 16:1-8 There was no joy in their steps as they left the empty tomb. They were amazed, but they were also terrified. Mary Magdalene and Mary, the …Read more
A Covenant of the Heart
Loraine MacKenzie Shepherd March 18, 2018 Jeremiah 31:31-34 Abbess and mystic Hildegard of Bingen, from the 12th century, wrote, “You understand so little of what is around …Read more
Wonderment
Loraine MacKenzie Shepherd B Lent 3 March 4, 2018 Exodus 20:1-17, Psalm 19 Last Sunday I talked about the cross being our moral compass with which we can take a cross-bearing to see if we’re …Read more
Cross Bearing
Loraine MacKenzie Shepherd A Lent 2 Feb 25, 2018 Mark 8:34-37 There are certain lakes in the Canadian Shield where boaters easily get turned around. I have a …Read more
Repent, and believe in the Good News
Rev. Earl M. Gould Sunday, February 18, 2018 Text: Mark 1:9-15 Westworth United Church Year B, Lent 1 If I ask for things you associate with Lent – you will likely include: “You are supposed to give up something you like doing for …Read more
The Suffering Servant
Loraine MacKenzie Shepherd Mark 8:31-33 Feb. 11, 2018 Rev 21:1-6 What do we believe about the end times? This was a question I posed to our first Faith Café, as I needed some help with this topic. We don’t often broach this …Read more
Who Do You Say That I Am?
Loraine MacKenzie Shepherd Mark 8:27-33 Feb 4, 2018 Who do you say that I am? Since the days of Jesus’ own life on earth, people have been asking this question. Jesus was familiar with the confused interest …Read more
How big is your God?
Marilyn Anderson Corkum.. Jan. 14th, 2018 1: How big is your God…… How big is your God?…. 2: Something that has intrigued us over the years has been discovery in scripture of how many ways …Read more
