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Jesus is not a personal comforter
If Jesus were to present himself in front of you right now and ask you: “who do people say that I am,” how would you respond? Who do the...
Church of the Incarnation
Nov 26, 20234 min read


Oil is the love of God we allow to pour through our actions
Last week John Kane invited us to a Rotary Club presentation at the North York senior’s Centre to which Earle and I went. The...
Church of the Incarnation
Nov 12, 20234 min read


Peace and Humility in the face of Injustice
Do you know where you were when you heard about or saw planes crash into the WTC buildings? I do. I was at home, in Raleigh, NC, getting...
Church of the Incarnation
Nov 8, 20234 min read


Death, Grief, Humility and God's Love
As most of you know I had surgery in early August and spent about 8 weeks recovering. I was pretty lucky during this time because I got...
Church of the Incarnation
Oct 30, 20234 min read


A Baptism Homily: in His Image we are made
This morning we’re gathered here once again to worship God as we usually do Sunday mornings. But this particular Sunday, we’ve got the...
Church of the Incarnation
Oct 22, 20233 min read


The Wedding Robe of Grace
By now you’re probably aware that Jesus’s parables have a much deeper meaning than the literal story you read or hear. Today we have a...
Church of the Incarnation
Oct 16, 20234 min read


Empty Hands and the Bread of Life
Let me cut right to the chase here. The real miracle that we hear about in our Gospel reading this morning isn’t that Jesus was able to...
Church of the Incarnation
Aug 7, 20233 min read


Selling all we have stored up so that we might receive all that matters
“Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Holy Spirit intercedes with...
Church of the Incarnation
Jul 30, 20234 min read


On Judgment: the wheat and the weeds
In the Western tradition, following Augustine, the parable of the wheat and the weeds has been applied to the church -- what Augustine...
Church of the Incarnation
Jul 23, 20234 min read


Struggle, humility and hope
The other week I was talking to a colleague of mine who had served in parishes that either closed shortly after he left, or that he had...
Church of the Incarnation
Jun 18, 20234 min read
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