Pull the Oar

Today’s passage is simple enough. It isn’t about pointing a finger at Peter and telling him to have a deeper faith. It isn’t about us having a deeper or stronger faith than Peter demonstrates.  Our passage this morning is about having the faith...

Preparing for Sunday: Walking on Water

It’s a well known story. After feeding the five thousand Jesus spends some time alone. The disciples take a boat back across the lake. At some point Jesus gets up and heads towards the disciples, walking on water across the lake. At first they think they see a...

A Funeral Celebration

The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes, the Feeding of the Five Thousand is a well known gospel story. So well known that we often get stuck on the loaves and fishes and the miracle that they represent. While we should not ignore this aspect of the reading or the...
Dr. Cindy Blackstock Addresses General Assembly

Dr. Cindy Blackstock Addresses General Assembly

This past June the Presbyterian Church in Canada met at Queen’s University in Kingston. Assembly was privileged to hear a message from Dr. Cindy Blackstock, Executive Director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada. As the recipient of...

Prayer of Community in Christ

When you ascended on high, you took many captives; you received gifts frompeople, even from the rebellious – that you, Lord God, might dwell there. Praise be to the Lord, to God our Saviour, who daily bears our burdens. Psalm 68: 18-19 We Play and Bleed We are a...

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