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HomeWorshipPastoral CareTeachings Articles/News Sermons CatechismLeadershipAbout UsContact Us Revelation 4:1-11       St John 3:1-15   “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”   We celebrate today that God has been revealed to us by Jesus as a Trinity – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit –…

HomeWorshipPastoral CareTeachings Articles/News Sermons CatechismLeadershipAbout UsContact Us Acts 2:1-11     John 14:15-27   Suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind!   Fifty days ago that we celebrated Jesus’ Resurrection on Easter.  We are like the Apostles, gathered in a room with others, on this fiftieth day in expectation.  For them, the…

HomeWorshipPastoral CareTeachings Articles/News Sermons CatechismLeadershipAbout UsContact Us 1 Peter 4:7-10      John 15:26-16:4   God is gone up with a merry noise, the Lord with the sound of the trump! O sing praises, sing praises unto our God; … sing ye praises with understanding!   This morning in the Church we remember that in-between time –…

HomeWorshipPastoral CareTeachings Articles/News Sermons CatechismLeadershipAbout UsContact Us St James 1:22-27     St John 16:23-33   “Whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. … ask and you will receive, that your joy may be full. ”   Today is the Fifth Sunday after Easter – also called Rogation Sunday…

HomeWorshipPastoral CareTeachings Articles/News Sermons CatechismLeadershipAbout UsContact Us St James 1:17-21       St John 16:5-15    “It is to your advantage that I go away… if I go, I will send [the Comforter] to you.”   We continue in this Easter season with Jesus’ farewell discourse to his disciples.  He tells them he’s going away and they…

HomeWorshipPastoral CareTeachings Articles/News Sermons CatechismLeadershipAbout UsContact Us 1 Peter 2:11-17       John 16:16-22 You have sorrow now: but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you. Over the past couple of weeks, in the daily readings, we have been following through two stories in the…

HomeWorshipPastoral CareTeachings Articles/News Sermons CatechismLeadershipAbout UsContact Us Genesis 1:26-28       St. Matthew 5:1-10   Today Esther and Florian are preparing to make Christian vows, of lifetime commitment to love and cherish one another and to honour and to obey, despite the earthly circumstances that may change – our bodily health, our earthly wealth, even changes that…

HomeWorshipPastoral CareTeachings Articles/News Sermons CatechismLeadershipAbout UsContact Us 1 Peter 2:19-25       John 10:11-16   You were as sheep going astray; but have now returned to the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. This Sunday has been called Good Shepherd Sunday from ancient times. We are being asked this morning in our readings to think…

HomeWorshipPastoral CareTeachings Articles/News Sermons CatechismLeadershipAbout UsContact Us John 20: 19-23       1 John 5.4-12   “For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.” (1 John 5:4) Closed doors and hearts The gospel reading for today begins by carrying us away to a…

HomeWorshipPastoral CareTeachings Articles/News Sermons CatechismLeadershipAbout UsContact Us Deuteronomy 6:1-9       St Mark 10:13-16       St John 3:1-8   Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot see… he cannot enter the kingdom of God.   Daniëlle and I come together today as people from two Christian traditions – Adventist and Anglican – to bring…