It's easy to see God in the beautiful places of our world--like the face of a baby or a sunset. It's much harder to see God in the ugly places of our lives and in our world.
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Often Christianity is presented as a set of ideas to be affirmed or rejected. Yet, it's more than that--it's fundamentally trust in a person.
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We waste so many good things we've been given: talents, potential, relationships, and even creation itself. Nonetheless, the limits of God's mercy have not been set--God always has more to give.
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We live in a fast-paced culture, with hectic schedules, stressful careers and incredible, competing demands on our time. Busy-ness is often seen as a mark of success, or importance. Unless you're God.
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We can have plenty of good, reasonable justifications for not loving other people and not helping them out. Jesus, however, seems to have a way of shattering even our best excuses.
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St. George's welcomed Rev. Dr. Richard Topping, Principal of Vancouver School of Theology as our guest preacher.
Church can be a sanctuary where we withdraw from the chaos of the world. Nonetheless, even the best protected sanctuary can have its predators.
Bad religion creates people who are self-serving, privilege gathering. Good religion creates people who live sacrificially for love of God and neighbor.
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In these three little verses, Jesus is all about how to be in relationship with God, flipping societies’ expectations on their head. He says, this ain’t no insiders club – truth, is, its easier if in all the rest of your life you just don’t fit.
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When we think of God as powerful, we assume that God's power is like human power: destructive, fearful. Jesus suggest God's power is more like mustard.
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Our job is to scatter the seed of God's grace indiscriminately, with the trust that the outcome, the fruit, is God’s doing.
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