Humility

Text: Luke 18: 9-14 Imagine, if you will, praying the following prayer. If it is helpful, please close your eyes and bow your heads. Thank you God for loving me. Thank you God for the way your grace works in my life. Thank you God for my health. May I always...

Preparing for Sunday: Opposites

They say that opposites attract. In our parable for this coming Sunday the Tax Collector may want to have the Pharisee’s pious religious observance. However, I am not sure that the Pharisee is comfortable with the Tax Collectors honesty and humility before God....

Prayer for Simplicity

Gracious God, we have come to this service by many different roads – in more sense than one. For each of us part of the journey has been along a private road; each of us is ignorant of what the others have been through; and so we cannot help arriving here to a...

In All Things Pray

Text: Luke 18: 1-8 https://standrewscobourg.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/sermons/16-10-16-rev-neil-a-ellis-prayer.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSS Prayer. Prayer is a real problem. You see half of us probably don’t pray as much as the other...

Preparing for Sunday: Prayer

Prayer is a challenging aspect of Christian devotional life. Challenging because it can often feel like a one way conversation. We don’t benefit from an active voice from God responding directly to our prayers in the same way that a spouse, child, parent or...

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