Last Sunday I was honoured to officiate at the funeral of Sean Kergan.
With the permission of the family I am posting the message (homily, meditation, whatever it is properly called) I gave. If you have lost someone you love or were close to—family, friend, co-worker—I hope this may prove a comfort to you.
Warm blessings,
Transfiguration Sunday comes around every church year. You can think of it as the last Sunday of Epiphany or the last Sunday before Lent but it comes up no matter what you think of it. This is the beauty and (sometimes) the challenge of following the Lectionary. I am grateful to all of those preaching…
The Baptism of the Lord Sunday is one of the recurring Sundays in the church year. I don’t mind recurring Sundays. I feel there is real value in looking again at something familiar . . . but actually looking at it. Regardless of all that I was wondering what I was going to say about…
We are into the church year’s season of Christmas, which is pretty short all things considered. The lectionary texts continue to draw from Isaiah and Matthew, with prophecies perhaps about Jesus and birth narratives definitely about Jesus. I thought I’d use this Sunday to talk about the most forgotten person in the stories about Jesus’…
We all want things to last. There is comfort in permanence; if nothing else, it is predictable. The moon is permanent and predictable. There is something wonderful about watching it wax and wane but always being there, even when we can’t see it. We want our relationships to last. We want the relationships of people…
Today was my last Sunday at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Grenfell. It felt odd in a way. It’s not that I’ve been there so long; rather, it’s that the times I’ve been there have been memorable. Sometimes they’ve been memorable, because I’ve made a mistake, which isn’t too surprising,what it’s a different church with a…
Has anyone ever asked you which character in a book or movie you would like to be? Have you ever done the exercise of imagination by putting yourself into a story? A Bible story? I’m sure it has a technical name which I’ve forgotten but it can be a very useful technique for getting a…