We are beginning a renewal of our contemporary worship at St. George’s. Beginning Sunday, October 7, our contemporary worship will be held twice a month on the first and third Sundays of the month at 11:15am in the church. Our change in frequency is intended to reflect the reality of modern attendance patterns and to… Read More Contemporary Service Renewed and Reimagined
Our reading from this Sunday (Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23) is an important lesson about holding our patterns of behaviour, our personal and even community traditions up to the light of the Gospel. We are often quick do a quick surface-only reading of an encounter like this and think, “Jesus sure showed those bad folk up.… Read More Out of the shadow: evil intentions
Our lives are busy and have numerous demands that compete for for our time and energy. Our need to eat, sleep, work, and play all require there place in our daily life. Our relationships of family, friends, and colleagues are important to us and need our attention. And a followers of Christ, we have the… Read More Refreshment and Restoration found in Worship
I just want to remind folks that most people are good people. It is true. I know, I know, I read the news too and it certainly feels like it is pretty much chuck full of the rotten things people do to other people. But turn off the news and the fear mongers for a… Read More Most People are Good People
In our gospel passage this past Sunday, I connected the the reading we read from chapter 6 of Mark’s gospel, the death of John the Baptist, to the passage right after it, the feeding of the five thousand. I made the point that Mark puts the darkly selfishness and life-taking brokenness of King Herod’s banquet… Read More A Tale of Two Banquets
