Transfiguration
I love our reading from Exodus this morning. We hear about Moses going up on the mountain top to encounter God in all his power. How many...
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Church of the Incarnation
- Jan 15, 2023
- 4 min
Laboring in Change and Decay; O Thou who changest not abide with me
I’ve been reading a book called, “Leaving Christianity: changing allegiances in Canada since 1945.” It looks at a breadth of statistical...
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Church of the Incarnation
- Jan 1, 2023
- 5 min
God's Mission: the opposite of Despotic or Totalitarian Destruction
I’ve talked before about a book I’m reading on the origins of Totalitarianism: specifically, the regimes of Stalinist Russia and Hitler’s...
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Church of the Incarnation
- Dec 25, 2022
- 5 min
God Does not Stand Far off from our Suffering but transforms reality by enduring it
This morning we have a second celebration of Jesus’s birth. But our readings today certainly take us in a more theological direction as...
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Church of the Incarnation
- Dec 24, 2022
- 5 min
Christmas Eve: God comes into the world; right into the middle of our suffering. You are not alone.
We hear in our reading from Luke the most mundane description of the birth of this one promised by the angel. So mundane that it could...
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Church of the Incarnation
- Dec 18, 2022
- 5 min
Advent 4: The Figures of Courage
Whenever we get to this reading about Joseph and Mary during Advent, I always have to take a step back and think carefully about their...
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Church of the Incarnation
- Dec 11, 2022
- 5 min
The Third Candle Burns: Shame and Joy
I want to begin with a story about a boy named Thomas. He was a smart boy and so quite sensitive, as smart people often are. He was born...
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Church of the Incarnation
- Dec 8, 2022
- 5 min
Advent 2
Imagine for a moment being a long-standing member of your faith community. You’ve been there your whole life. You know the ways, the...
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Church of the Incarnation
- Nov 13, 2022
- 5 min
Judgment Day: Getting yourself out of the way so God's Word can be heard through you
Our reading from Malachi sums up the reading from 2nd Thessalonians and Luke well. So let’s hear it again: “See, the day is coming,...
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Church of the Incarnation
- Nov 6, 2022
- 5 min
The Contingency of Marriage
If someone who had never been to church were to ask you what is so unique about the God that Christians believe in, how would you respond...
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Church of the Incarnation
- Oct 30, 2022
- 5 min
All Saints and All Souls
This week I was talking to my PhD supervisor who was travelling back to the US for his dad’s funeral. I had offered my condolences of...
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Church of the Incarnation
- Oct 30, 2022
- 5 min
Humility and the Hubris of Contempt
Our gospel reading this morning presents us with a pretty straightforward message: do not think that you have everything worked out...
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Church of the Incarnation
- Oct 9, 2022
- 5 min
Give us this King, I mean Bread Forever
To really understand our Gospel lesson this morning, we've got to recall what had just happened. From Jesus and the disciples, five...
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Church of the Incarnation
- Oct 2, 2022
- 3 min
A Daily Bread's worth of faith to persist in what you owe
Our Gospel from Luke this morning clarifies what it really means to be a disciple or learner and follower of Jesus. As you might imagine,...
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Church of the Incarnation
- Sep 28, 2022
- 5 min
The Chasm Between Heaven and Hell
This morning we carry on with a theme in Jesus’s parables where once again, wealth seems to stand as a foil to the reception of grace....
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Church of the Incarnation
- Sep 19, 2022
- 4 min
God's Audit
In our Gospel lesson this morning, Jesus tells the parable of a rich man who has a manager who essentially doles out the various products...
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Church of the Incarnation
- Sep 11, 2022
- 6 min
Just who are the lost sheep and the lost coin?
When I was in the first or second grade, I asked my dad if I could carve the pumpkin. My dad said, “no. Your hand will slip up the knife...
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Church of the Incarnation
- Sep 4, 2022
- 5 min
Hating People and Giving up your Possessions ... What are you on about Jesus?
This morning’s Gospel begins with a bit of a zinger: “Now large crowds were traveling with Jesus; and he turned and said to them,...
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Church of the Incarnation
- Sep 4, 2022
- 4 min
The Humility of Love
I want to ask you: what is the most important characteristic, what the church sometimes refers to as a virtue, that has allowed you to...
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Church of the Incarnation
- Sep 4, 2022
- 4 min
It's All Falling Apart: Why am I here?
The other day I was having a discussion with one of my mentors. He asked how I was doing and I said, ‘I don’t know how I feel. All I see...
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