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Again this Sunday we encounter Jesus on a Sabbath, with Pharisees (a sect of religious leaders who were very strict about following the law) and we're presented with a person in need of healing. Jesus asks if it is lawful to heal on the Sabbath, qualifies the ask further and then heals a man of dropsy (edema/swelling). The man leaves healed and Jesus offers 2 lessons: (1) A parable about a wedding banquet and sitting in a humble place instead of a place of honour and, (2) A call to breakdown social barriers and to welcome those beyond our comfort zone and usual social group. To serve those who cannot repay you is an act of kindness that reflects the heart of God and will be rewarded in heaven. 

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This Sunday we examined the command to honour the Sabbath and keep it holy. In the synagogue on a Sabbath, Jesus sees a woman bent over for 18 years. She doesn't ask for help but he sees her, lays hands on her and pronounces her healed. She stands up for the first time in 18 years and is restored to wholeness in body and in the community at large. A leader is sure Jesus has broken the command to honour the Sabbath and this healing is classified as 'work'. Jesus has some words back to the man which bring restoring people to wholeness in word and deed as the true heart and meaning of the Sabbath. So...how do we personally live out the command to honour the Sabbath? 

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Last week we began exploring The Hall of Faith. We looked at some of the biggest names and stories we know in The Bible and how God works through people to accomplish God's plans. Today we continue with a few more such stories along with a warning. Pursuing The Way of God runs counter to the ways of this world and can bring on trouble including persecution and even death. In fact, the greek word for 'witness' is 'martys' from which we get the English word, 'martyr'. To be a follower and witness is linked to being willing to follow God even unto death. With that, we pray that God would direct our steps to accomplish whatever it is God wants through us to bring about the "Kin-dom come on earth as it is in heaven".

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Today we start a 2 week examination of what has been called The Hall of Faith, a 'whose who' of great Biblical figures we know and recognize. As we look at their lives we are reminded that God is awesome, God seeks relationship with all of us, that we too are vessels of God's love and work in the world and finally, that "By Faith," with God, all things are possible for God's glory and purpose. 

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After Jesus finishing praying, one of the disciples asks Jesus how to pray. Jesus lays out a shorter form of what we know as "The Lord's Prayer". Following this, Jesus offers a metaphor of how we as humans who are beautiful and messy creatures know how to give good gifts to one another and how much more does our Holy God is altogether Good know how to give us all good gifts including most of all, the Holy Spirit. It's a powerful passage. 

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Today we welcomed back guest Minister, The Reverend Dr. Brian Thorpe. Hear as he shares from God's word and brings the text to life in our time and place.

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Rev. Billy Graham is said to have prayed the Psalms daily, such that every 3 months he would have prayed aloud all 150 Psalms before starting again. The Psalms have been called a mini-Bible unto itself. In the Psalms we find the the full scope of human experience. We find people not unlike ourselves laying their very souls bare before God in anger, in distress, in sadness, in jubilation and in reverence of God's holiness. If we are ever at a loss for words on what to pray, we might just open up the Psalms and find in them what it means to walk through all the good times, hardships and ordinary days in between with God on our side.

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In today's message we talk about being a gathered and sent people. Gathered into the church to worship, to hear a word from The Word, to pray and to encourage one another on in good works. And then we are sent out into the world to live out our faith, to share the good news and to participate in hospitality - both giving and receiving graciously. And we wonder, who might be the 1 person we could invite to church?

Music throughout our service Podcast/Streamed with Permission under One License Number: A-607425 & CCLI 2453477  

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Everyday we face a myriad of choices. In each moment we can choose to live by gratifying the desires of the flesh or the way of the Holy Spirit. Are we meant to subdue the flesh and live according to the Spirit 24/7 or is there a way to hold both body and Spirit as holy and be in communication with both? This is the topic we address in this week's sermon. Living in the flesh, with the Spirit. 

 Music between scripture reading and sermon: "O Master, Let Me Walk With Thee" (Voices United Hymnal #560). Words: Washington Gladden 1879, alt. Music: Henry Percy Smith, 1874. Podcast/Streamed with Permission under One License Number: A-607425 & CCLI 2453477        

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In Canada, June is Indigenous History Month and June 21st is National Indigenous Peoples Day. If honour of this, we were fortunate to have The Rev. Murray Pruden join us as our guest preacher and co-presider. Rev. Murray opened our service with a wonderful prayer to 6 directions (East. South, West, North, Up and Down) and he offered a beautiful sermon which you can hear here. 

Music between scripture reading and sermon: "Many Are the Lightbeams" (Voices United Hymnal #588). Words: Cyprian of Carthage 252, Swedish para. Anders Frostenson 1972, rev. 1986. English Translation David Lewis, 1983. Music: Olle Widestrand 1974, arr. Len Lythgoe, 1983. Podcast/Streamed with Permission under One License Number: A-607425 & CCLI 2453477