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View Archived Sermons Listen to this Sermon    Scriptures: LEV 1:1-5, 10:1-3, 11-1:7, 14:1-7, 16:21-22, 19:2b, 19:13-18  [The text below diverges significantly in certain places from the sermon as preached and as available in audio form.  All readings from the Bible were from Everret Fox’s The Five Books of Moses translation.  All other quotations are from Jacob Milgrom’s 3 volume Leviticus commentary from The Anchor Bible series]             Our task for your hearing this morning, and it goes even beyond…

View Archived Sermons Listen to this Sermon Hosea 11:1-11, Leviticus 25, Luke 12:13-21 It’s RRSP season.  This is the time of year that your local bank will be trying to lure you in to try their most popular investment options.  I know about one bank that until tomorrow is offering 2 percent on a one year GIC for any new money. Now depending on your own experience you may have several different reactions to what I’ve just said. Our congregation,…

View Archived Sermons Listen to this Sermon    1 Kings 5:13‑6:1 Some of you may remember when the first George Bush was running for election to be president of the US (that was in 1988). In one of the debates, Bush was asked by one of the moderators to state why he wanted to be president – what was his vision for the US? Bush replied: “I’m not very good at the vision thing.” Bush was able to make an…

View Archived Sermons Listen to this Sermon Do you consider yourself to be a rule-follower or a rule-breaker? Do you find comfort in the structure of guidelines or do you tend to question the status quo? It’s often a pendulum – we swing to one side or the other depending on the issue or the time in our life. Our community also swings as we try to find the balance between the structure of action items, policies and guidelines in…

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View Archived Sermons Listen to this Sermon  God of the Testaments III: “If God is on your side, then who’s on mine?”: Blessings revisited.  Tim Schmucker  Genesis 12.1-7; Exodus 15.1-3, 20-21; Deuteronomy  28.1-2, 7-10 Isaiah 2.2-3; Matthew 5.43-45; Acts 10.34-36   Before I start this sermon, I want to say something to the youth. You should know that you instigated this sermon. A dynamic conversation you had in your Sunday school class numerous weeks ago with Lori is what sparked…

View Archived Files Listen to this Sermon    Deuteronomy 20:10-16 II Timothy 3:14-17   This morning is the second Sunday of a preaching series about the Bible – which seems an odd thing to say, because it’s safe to assume that our preaching is always based on the Bible or a text within the bible, but this series is more about what’s up with the Bible as a whole.  What’s it like?  How do we approach it?  How is it…

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View archived files   Listen to this Sermon    As Christmas quickly approaches, families gather together, sharing their stories and memories of Christmases past.  I would like to begin this morning with a Christmas story from my own family.  It’s a story with a sad beginning, but it’s also a story of unexpected joy.             On a December 18th, a little over 50 years ago, my grandfather Donald Metcalfe died tragically before his time.  Donald left behind a young wife,…

View archived files Listen to this Sermon   Advent III In our advent texts for today there has been a shift from a call to watchfulness and then repentance to joy.  We have moved from the key words hope and mercy to the key word – joy.   In Isaiah 61 and Psalm 126, the people represented there cannot contain their joy.  Those who have gone out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, have come home with shouts of joy,…