Sermons

Caution: God At Work

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

God is on the move, whether the church is ready to move or not. The Spirit of God doesn’t wait for institutions to catch up. This is a restless God who has traveling in the toes. It would be impossible to be a step ahead of God. It would be dumb luck to keep pace with God. If we even sense the direction God is moving, we’re doing well. Can we perceive it?

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Believing Thomas

Sunday, April 11th, 2010

“This is what I really want you to know…” I read these final few verses of John’s Gospel as if the author were saying that… “This is all you need to know… The point of the whole book is really just to tell you this”, he writes, “this is written so that you will have life.”

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2010 Easter Sunday- Walking By Jesus

Sunday, April 4th, 2010

There’s something about the Christ that refuses to be pinned down, even by those who love him dearly. Not even death could contain that great Spirit. He slipped the tomb. Where did he go?

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2010 Palm Sunday – “Did He Know?”

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

St. David’s United Church
Rev. Dan Chambers
March 29th, 2010
Palm Sunday
Luke 19:28-40
Did He Know?
As he was now approaching the path down from the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the deeds of power that they had seen, saying,
“Blessed is the king who comes [...]

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March 21, 2010 – Lenten Series – God and the Laundry

Sunday, March 21st, 2010

St. David’s United Church
Rev. Dan Chambers
March 21, 2010
Matthew 13:31-33; 44-45
God and the Laundry
The kingdom of God is like yeast that a woman mixed in with
three measures of flour until all of it was leavened.
Jesus
(Matthew 13:33)
My sister-n-law is a grade four teacher. She also has published a couple of books on literacy and travels around [...]

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Your Soul’s Address

Monday, March 15th, 2010

As the body is the soul’s address, the church is too. As the Body of Christ in the world, the church is the address of our collective soul. The sanctuary provides an oasis for healing. Here we pray together, sing and learn and play together. Here we grow together in the spirit of compassion; here we organize to go into the world offering grace to other bodies who hunger and thirst.

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