Category: Sermon

In today’s Gospel lesson we have the third of four advent parables Jesus tells in 25th Chapter of Matthew’s Gospel. Last week we had the parable of the wise and foolish bridesmaids, today it’s the Parable of the Talents, and next week, we will have the climatic parable, the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats. So stay tuned, and do not adjust your sets. Continue reading “Trinity 23, Nov 19 2017 Canon Claude Schroeder. Sermon on Matthew 25.14-30”

(1 Thess. 4.13-18; Matt. 25.1-13)

In preparing for the service today, I was contemplating changing the lectionary readings assigned for this Sunday, in favour of those for Remembrance Day.

In the end, I stuck with the assigned readings, which it seems to me speak powerfully to the occasion. Our theme today is not so much that of war and peace, but of hope.

What is the hope that we as Christians have for the future in the midst of this violent, war-torn world? Continue reading “St. Mary’s Anglican Church, Trinity 22, Nov 12 2017 Canon Claude Schroeder”

Death is that mystery which transcends human experience and knowledge. Nobody knows a particular instance they may announce their passing, “It is finished!” Let us hold to that thought for a moment because we will revisit it in our discussion about the life of Moses, Paul, Jesus and the Christian saints.

Imagine you are Moses who received the saddest news of your death, that you will not enjoy fruits of liberation: “This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when I said, ’I will give it to your descendants.’ I have let you see I’t with your eyes, but you will not cross over into it” (Deut. 34: 4).

Continue reading “October 29, 2017; Trinity 20; Rev. Nathaniel”

October 22, 2017 sermon
Beth Christianson
St. Mary the Virgin Church
Regina

Exodus 33:12-23
1 Thessalonians 1:1-10
Matthew 22:15-22

It is a good thing to be reminded from time to time that not everyone whose opinion differs from yours is an enemy.  All things being equal, we have a lot of freedom to self-select the people we interact with most often, and it makes sense that we tend to gravitate toward people who agree with us, whose point of view is the same as ours, but you can start to get a sort of reinforcing harmonic situation going.  When that happens, you can lose depth of field, to use a photography term.  What’s distant from you becomes fuzzy and indistinct, and you can’t be sure what’s lurking there.  All that’s in focus is the people you’ve gravitated toward, who are all saying the same things you’re saying, all looking at the world from the same perspective.

Continue reading “What’s Your Perspective?”