Tag: montreal
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habit-defying labour — thinking with the art of daisy tsai
Daisy Tsai describes her work, presently on display at Luz Gallery, Montreal, with these words: Painting is habit-defying labour… As our world dazzles, rushes, and burns, i peek-a-boo through forms and colours to contend for an alternative coherence, stillness verging on celebration and distress. The notion of habit is a powerful one, speaking as it…
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Christ the King – Politics and Palliative Care
This morning we come to the end of the church year. Over the past twelve months we have celebrated God’s self-revelation in Advent and Christmas and Epiphany. We have recalled the suffering patience of Jesus in the season of Lent. We have walked through the darkness of Good Friday into the glory of Easter morning.…
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love — the way over the mountain
Paul speaks of love as the more excellent way – an image which includes within itself the idea of a mountain pass. So love is the more excellent way, the higher way, and the way over the mountain. With this in mind, my sermon a few weeks ago included images from a walk I took…
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a walk on the mountain
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thanksgiving letter
My letter to the congregation of Kensington, for this Thanksgiving. Click the image to the right for the letter.
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fall shots…
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urban landscape – the face of longing
The Apostle Paul has arrived in the city of Athens. Athens – the intellectual capital of the ancient world; a city in which ideas are born. Athens, the city of Socrates and Plato and Aristotle. In Paul’s day, of course, the three great philosophers are long dead, but Athens is still defined by a rigorous…
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Hope and Judgment
My sermon from yesterday, which was the first Sunday in Advent. ________________________ “Thessalonica” Does that name ring a bell with you? Well, Thessalonica is a city in modern day Greece – also known as Salonica. But for our purposes what’s interesting is that the city of Thessalonica existed already in the time of Jesus and the…
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Creed and Community
A sermon preached today in advance of a sermon series on the Apostles’ Creed – to begin next week. _________________________________ Community. It’s a word you can’t escape today, isn’t it, both in the church and in wider society. Everywhere you turn – whether in the world of politics, in the media, in the…
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Sermon: Doubt and Dogma (2)
A sermon preached in anticipation of a sermon series on the Apostles’ Creed. A few themes from this sermon are borrowed from Timothy Keller’s book, The Reason for God. (Sermon date: January 18, 2009) ________________________________ As we continue to prepare for a sermon series on the Apostles Creed, we turn from thinking about doubt last…
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