The Deacon’s Bench
…year when food is at its scarcest in our community. Jubilee People coming to a church in need are referred to Jubilee where caring and compassionate trained volunteers advocate for…
…year when food is at its scarcest in our community. Jubilee People coming to a church in need are referred to Jubilee where caring and compassionate trained volunteers advocate for…
…inviting us into, and how we can come alongside the mission of God within our faith communities and outside those buildings. Discerning versus deciding! Here’s another question I hear a…
…centres that lack many of the basics seen in developed settings. Donations of toys and school materials from the members of the church were given to one of the child…
…have never known / As the Rabbis would have said: this is love dependent on no material thing …” The Third Day’s Mind, the silent power of God, raised Jesus…
…stable over which the angels sing. Incarnation comes to us, speak to us, forms us, brings light to us—births us. This is the human experience of God emptying God’s Self…
…day, people will be able to renew their vows. In holding with the Victorian theme, people are encouraged to come in period attire. “If you have a connection with our…
…I need to check myself—asking if what I crave is in keeping with God’s ways, I frequently come to a painful stop realizing it is not. Still, I want that…
…seven of our Mission Action Plan sets out our goal to continue to work on our present community service projects as well as explore and identify new social issues and…
…challenges the comfortable and the complacent, sides with the outcast and the prisoner, and has no regard for earthly power and worldly ambition. Love and hope. Christianity isn’t safe and…
…the Zim Kingston, advising the captain and crew to “abandon ship.” The fire was spreading through a number of containers that were carrying extremely hazardous materials that could actually be…
…spend trying to secure and maintain material possessions? Why do we fail to trust that the Lord will provide, as he has promised, for all our earthly needs? Jesus tells…
Worry is the great disabler, especially when directed toward things material. There was a time when I made C.S. Lewis’ Wormwood and Screwtape proud, whose role it was to deflect…
…Mark’s, but this was burned in the War of 1812. Although promised an income and rectory by his congregation, it did not materialize, but by 1796 he was receiving an…
…wearing rabbit ears, bow ties and tails! Why you ask? Sugarbun, the rabbit came for a visit bringing with her a basket of materials to create the bevy of bunnies!…
…Walking in Right Relations. The aim of this group was for us to learn more about the history and legacy of residential schools, to discern ways to take public, communal,…
…mission is to help Canadian Anglicans meet our commitment to the fifth Mark of Mission, “to safeguard the integrity of creation and sustain and renew the life of the earth.”…
…focused in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus whom we call Christ. The coming of Jesus is therefore good news, or Gospel, for the world. That’s where Christianity begins….
…politics (church or otherwise). I gave a one-sentence summary that we then spent an hour unpacking: “It seems to me that faith in God makes the best sense of the…
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