Sermons & Worship Audio

“This teaching is difficult, who can accept it?”  August 27th  Jeremy Bergen    Texts:   Joshua 24:1-2a; 14-18; Psalm 34:15-22; John 6:56-69   The sermon today should be short and simple. Our summer series has been on the theme of being bread. The theme suggested for today is “Eat and Live.” And we are presented with some stories, and with a psalm that appear to illustrate this well. That is, if we eat the bread God gives us, then we will…

  Becoming Bread: “STARVING AND DEPRESSED IN THE MIDST OF A GIANT SMORG”  August 20th  Gary Harder    Text:   1 Kings 19:1-8; 11-12   Introduction When the drought set in, in Israel – no rain at all. None – when the drought set in, God told Elijah to flee to a little creek. He was supposed to hide there, drink from the creek, and he was supposed to wait there for ravens to feed him. (1 Kings 17:2-4)   I…

Living Abundantly In The Midst Of AIDS  August 13th Sarah Adams  Text:   John 10:1-10   AIDS Conference in the news – Ecumenical – InterfaithTheme – Keeping the Promise – governments, companies, us, GodOur text today is about one of those promises from God.“I came that they might have life, and have it abundantly.” Abundant life – a promise from God. So what have you heard about AIDS? 25 year anniversary. 40 m. infected. 2.3 million children. (50% die before 2; 80%…

Becoming Bread Nourished by the roots  August 6th  Gary Harder    Text:   John 6:15; 25-35   This will have to be a very serious sermon. A very, very serious sermon. No smiling allowed. You see, if you smile, I will have to smile. That won’t do. If I smile I will reveal to you that one of my front teeth is gone. I don’t want you to know that. My dentist tried glueing it back in several times, but it…

  SOWING SEEDS WITH UNDERSTANDING AND PATIENCE  June 18th  Tera Dyck    Texts:   1 Samuel 15:34 – 16:13 Mark 4:26-34   Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of our hearts be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, our rock, and our redeemer. Let me begin by telling you a reoccurring dream I have. I’m in exam time. I’ve studied SO hard for my exam, and I’m feeling quite good about it. In fact, I feel SO good about…

ANSWERING THE CALL  June 11th  Gary Harder    Texts:   Isaiah 6:1-8  Romans 8:14-17   Introduction It’s good to be back in this pulpit after five months sitting in the pew. I want to express my deep appreciation to you, my congregation, for giving me this five-month partial sabbatical. What this time has meant for me was, in the first place, no evening meetings – a rich gift all on its own. But a more important piece to me has been…

THE ASCENT TO ACTION  May 28th  Tera Dyck, Summer Student Minister    Texts:   Psalm 1 John 17:6-10 Acts 1:1-11; 15-17; 21-26 Luke 24   Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of our hearts be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, our rock, and our redeemer.   Second goodbyes are always very awkward for me. I just don’t like them. The last few days at Canadian Mennonite University in the Katherine Friesen Apartments, more fondly referred to as “the…

Ready – for what?  May 14th  Jane Pritchard    May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer (Ps. 19:14)   The four lectionary readings for this Sunday proved a challenge to weave into a sermon. Of course they all reflect in some way our proximity to the Easter events and the coming of the holy Spirit at Pentecost; they don’t have much to say…

The Lord is Our Shepherd  May 7th  Bock Ki Kim    Texts:    Psalm 23, 1 John 3:16~24   My home village, where I was born, was surrounded by many mountain peaks. There were about 50 houses in the village. It was a beautiful mountain village. A winding river ran from East to West as a creek merged into the river from the North. There were smooth pebbles and sand along side the creek with pure and clean water, that…

THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS  April 30th  Jonathan Slater    Christ is Risen! He is Risen Indeed! Although Easter was two weeks ago, today’s scripture reading invites us back to Easter, to the acclamation that Christ is Risen. It is also a text that raises the question of what we mean when we say Christ is Risen: In what sense is Jesus of Nazareth risen? What does it mean for us to proclaim that Christ is risen indeed?   I suspect…