Colourful Dreamer

Over the last few weeks, we have heard Jesus teach his disciples, Matthew’s community, and us, how to hold good community together. When asked by his disciples “who the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven”   Jesus responds by placing a child in their midst. It was not about their status. Instead Jesus reminded them that good community places the most vulnerable—like children, the marginalized, and those named in the Beatitudes —at its very centre. Good community has a common story that holds it together and gives it purpose. It is built on God’s deep love seen in the Exodus story and lived out in Jesus. Good community is not about us, but us living God’s deep love for creation and all who share this home with us. Last week in the gospel reading Jesus taught that true community is about mirroring heaven on earth through common purpose, deep commitment to each other, as Paul’s letter to the Romans, and the honesty required to face conflict. . Matthew 18:18 is often read to mean that wh...

You can listen to this sermon here   Gate Pa – Year B 3rd Sunday in Lent, 2024 Readings: Psalm                          Psalm 19 First Reading :             Exodus 20:1-17  Second Reading :        1 Cor 1:18-25 Gospel:                        John 2:13-22        What I want to say: Last week we talked about “carrying our cross with some examples of “martyrs”. Then read about MLK Jr, and some of his experiences with his father – living the truth that he was created a man in the image of God. Carrying our cross can be as simple as this. In light of that explore Exodus 20 – 10 Words – not as something to be done to ear...

This Lent we continue reflecting on whose are we using or four words, who are we as people marked by those four words, and what is ours to do in light of all that. This week we are given the Decalogue - the 10 words or 10 commandments from Exodus - We too easily read these as legalistic or moralistic which need to be obeyed to earn something. Howard Wallace says they “were given so that people may live fully together and before God. They were not given so that people may be worthy to come into God’s presence. On the contrary … they are given after God liberated his people from Egypt and led them in the wilderness. Law or torah in the Old Testament, is always a way to live in the presence of the gracious God who first comes to us in our despair and need. They are also a reminder that living in the presence of this God brings responsibility toward God and toward all God’s creation.” 1 The 10 words are the way God shape the people of God to live out God’s graciousness and generosity fo...

 You can listen to this sermon here You can watch the sermon being given here Gate Pa Anglican   25 th Sunday in Ordinary Time in Year A and 3rd Sunday in Season of Creation - Readings: Psalm                          Psalm 105: 1-6, 37- 44      First Reading               Exodus 16: 2-15                                                Second Reading         Romans 8: 18-27          Gospel                   ...