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2006 Christmas Services
I invite you and your family to come and celebrate Christmas with us at St. George’s! On Christmas Eve, Sunday the 24th, we will have a said service at 8am. It’s a quiet and reflective service to start the day. Then things get much more “high energy” with our 5pm Christmas Eve Service. This service…
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Faith (it happens on the inside)
Faith begins its work on us from the inside, not on the outside. The seeds of faith are planted, cultivated and grown inside us. In Paul’s letter to the Hebrews, Paul, quoting from Jeremiah chapter 31 verse 33, writes, “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord,…
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poverty and abundance
As I was preparing for my Thanksgiving sermon, I began by reflecting on both poverty and abundance. My initial though for my sermon was to say a few important and meaningful words about living mindfully and graciously in our abundance. Yet to remind us of our abundance, I knew I needed to illustrate poverty and…
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true greatness
“The two conditions of true greatness are humility and service; not to be the servant of friends, or kindred, or of a class, or even of church members, but of all, like Christ.” (“The People’s New Testament” B.W. Johnson, 1891) In Mark’s Gospel chapter 9 there is a passage in which Jesus and his disciples…
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The Pillar of Tradition
When I talk about our Anglican expression of the Christian Faith, I very often talk about the three pillars of Anglicanism; Scripture, Tradition, and Reason. These three pillars are a wonderful and powerful way to understand what makes us Anglican’s Anglican. I want to focus on the pillar of Tradition. If you look around the…
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