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The Promise of Christmas

After the romance of Christmas Eve, we land with a thud squarely back in reality, and reality is kind of...
Ross Smillie
December 30, 2018
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The Innkeeper's Story

A narrative sermon for Christmas Eve
Ross Smillie
December 24, 2018
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Child of Shame, Child of Grace

A narrative sermon (a story) based on Matthew's account of the birth of Jesus and Joseph's dream
Ross Smillie
December 23, 2018
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God's New Story

The stories of Christmas are stories of surprise, of quite unexpected events happening in the most unusual of ways:...
Ross Smillie
December 16, 2018
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Hail Mary

I invite you to spend some time meditating and pondering the figure of Mary, asking what she might be saying to...
Ross Smillie
December 9, 2018
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The Birth of a New World

In the midst of poverty, violence, oppression and entrenched injustice, people hope. They live in the tension...
Ross Smillie
December 2, 2018
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God's Reign and Climate Change

In the world Jesus belongs to, the ultimate commitment is to truth. “For this I was born, and for this I came into...
Ross Smillie
November 25, 2018
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The Narrow, Winding Road to Life

Jesus is reported to have said, “strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there...
Ross Smillie
November 18, 2018
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Re-Membering Our Future

The poem “In Flanders’ Fields,” which we heard earlier, contains the line, “take up our quarrel with the foe.” I...
Ross Smillie
November 11, 2018
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A Broken, Holy Hallelujah

My title for this sermon is drawn from Leonard Cohen’s wonderful song Hallelujah, in which he sings of a holy and a...
Ross Smillie
November 4, 2018

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