Tag: healing
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The Wounds we Share – Remembering #JeanVanier
My latest column in the Christian Courier. ___________________ You couldn’t help but notice Jean Vanier when he entered a room. This was simply on account of his size – he was a big man, standing six feet, six inches tall. So just by virtue of his physical presence, he would likely draw your gaze. But…
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The Scar Project
A sermon preached today in the Chapel of The Presbyterian College. _____________ Nadia Myre is an Algonquin and Quebecois artist originally from Maniwaki who now lives and works here in Montreal. She’s not well known across the country, but her work is significant enough that she has a solo show at the Musée des beaux-arts…
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Let’s not cheat ourselves. Encountering Jesus. 3/5
The gates of Jerusalem are busy places. There are so many people coming and going – whether for religious festivals, or for trade and commerce, or for administrative purposes. The flow of people is almost nonstop at these gates – through these portals into the city. There is a pool near one particular gate of…
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Brokenness and Beauty
Kintsugi (or kintsukuroi) is a Japanese practice and refers to the repair of broken pottery. In this particular practice, a broken piece of pottery is repaired using a resin that is sprinkled with gold. The pieces of a broken bowl or cup of plate are bound together with this gold-sprinkled resin. The result is striking,…
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living before a hinged cross #gerasenedemoniac
This morning’s sermon – posted before preached! _______________________ The townspeople knew all about this man. At one time he probably lived among them.Very likely he grew up as a boy and young man in their town. But over time they began to see something change in him. Perhaps they saw it all coming over months…
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down by the riverside – the river as a boundary
In so many places around the earth, rivers are also boundaries. Rivers, of course, are natural geographic formations that are often difficult for people to cross or to get around. And so in the history of peoples and communities and nations, rivers have inevitably become boundaries that define those peoples and relations between them. So…
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vintage Jesus (2)
Last week as we began this short sermon series entitled Vintage Jesus, we spent a bit of time describing this whole fascination with the sensibilities and aesthetics of past decades. There is fairly wide interest in the clothes and jewelry and furniture, and other things from the 1930’s and 40’s up through the 70’s. There…
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gospel and the gazette: postsecret
I suspect that many or most of us here this morning have never heard of PostSecret. PostSecret had its beginning in 2005 and was created by a man by the name of Frank Warren. Back in January of 2005, Frank Warren created this project by sending 3,000 self-addressed stamped postcards to people – and he…
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that you may be healed…
In the town of Capernaum lives a man who suffers from what we would call paraplegia. He is paralyzed from the waste down – unable to use his legs. He is utterly dependent on those who live around him – dependent on them to provide food and drink, to put a roof over his head…
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