Good Friday: Whom Are You Looking For?
March 25, 2016 | John 18: 1-11 | Rev. Nancy Talbot Whom are you looking for? Not once but twice Jesus asks the soldiers and police from the chief priests and the Pharisees who came to the garden with lanterns and torches and weapons in search of him. Whom are you […]
Lent 4: What Have We Squandered?
March 6, 2016 | Luke 15: 11-32 | Rev. Nancy Talbot- One of my favourite television shows, now in its 9th season, is The Big Bang Theory. It’s a show about two nerdy physicists named Sheldon and Leonard who live across the hall from a very attractive waitress named Penny. Sheldon and Leonard, like […]
Lent 2: A Tale of Two Cities
February 21, 2016 | Jonah 3: 1-10 and Luke 13: 31-15 | Rev. Nancy Talbot – This morning we have before us tales of two ancient cities: Ninevah at one time one of the largest cities in the world situated in what is now northern Iraq; and Jersualem, known for centuries as the Holy […]
Loving Kindness
January 31, 2016 | Micah 6: 1-8 | Rev. Nancy Talbot – For the past two weeks we have been gathering around the words of the prophet Micah and the particular section of the writings attributed to him that we heard read this morning about seeking justice, loving kindness and walking humbly with […]
Baptism of Jesus: Being the Beloved
January 10, 2016 | Luke 3: 15-17, 21-22 | Rev. Nancy Talbot – Over the holidays I noticed a trend around New Year’s resolutions. A variety of newspaper articles and Facebook posts seemed to be suggesting we do away with the whole idea of making resolutions, mostly because few people ever seem to […]
No Rest for the Weary
December 27, 2015 | Matthew 2: 13-23 | Rev. Nancy Talbot – Both my children were born with the assistance of a doula (a labour coach.) Thank goodness for that because I knew nothing about supporting someone through the arduous task of giving birth and I knew even less about being a parent at […]
Christmas is about Wonder and Awe
December 19, 2015 | Luke 2: 8-18 | Rev. Nancy Talbot – I always knew that the shepherds were the most marginalized characters in the Christmas story, the lowly ones who are first to hear the good news in Luke’s gospel, the ones I often refer to with the children as the […]
Chosen Gifts
December 6, 2015 | Luke 1: 26-38 and 46-56 | Rev. Nancy Talbot – Advent Two I don’t know whether you heard the news this week or not. Apparently after the two days that are good for the economy, Black Friday and Cyber Monday, there is a group in Canada that has declared […]
What’s Holding You Back?
October 25, 2015 | Luke 9: 57-62 | Rev. Nancy Talbot – For the last couple months we’ve been exploring the theme of “Finding Our Way.” We’ve been doing that because in our newly renovated space people have literally been getting lost, not knowing which door leads to which room or which drawer the […]
Which Way Do We Go?
October 18, 2015 | 1 Kings 3: 1-15 | Rev. Nancy Talbot – A couple weeks ago, on September 30th school children across the country commemorated Orange shirt day. Named in honour of Phyllis Webstad who was stripped of her brand new orange shirt when she was taken to an Indian Residential School, orange […]