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The Holy Spirit Connects Us
This past Sunday we celebrated Pentecost Sunday. The day of the arrival of the Holy Spirit to guide the church. Its’ arrival transformed that tiny group of men and women who followed Jesus. It changed them from a bunch of cowards huddled together in a locked room, to a daring and outgoing team of evangelists,…
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160 years of God at work
On this past Sunday we celebrated the 160th Anniversary Of St. George’s Church, Georgetown. While I was leafing through the written and photo records of our archives, I realized that too often that written history’s focus was too heavily on the leaders, the clergy. But what, I hoped we could focus on this year as…
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This Ain’t No Jedi Mind Trick
In Mark’s Gospel, right after his baptism by John and temptation in the wilderness, Jesus heads to the area of Galilee and calls his first four disciples. They are fishermen. But hear how it goes. He approaches, say “Follow me and I will make you fish for people” and IMMEDIATELY they leave what they are…
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Local Food is Good For You
The Fresh Food Box program is good for us in so many ways. It encourages us to eat more healthy foods and less prepared foods, which is good for our bodies. It provides as much local and Ontario grown produce as is possible and available each month, which is good for our communities, province, and…
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Making Disciples
St. George’s Church here in Georgetown has been around for almost 160 years now. It is very humbling to to look back over those many years and think of all the people for whom this church has being a place central to their faith and a place from which they have proclaimed the gospel and…
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