You are God’s beloved. Can anyone ever hear those words too often? So we gather today to celebrate the gift of baptism as we hear the story of Christ’s baptism. And we will take the opportunity to remember and rejoice in our own baptisms.
Today’s worship service will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel at 10:30 am. Join us live, or watch the video here at a later time.
The bulletin for the service can be downloaded here.
Maybe no story in scripture has spawned more speculation on its details than the narrative of the Magi. What detail intrigues you? The star? Those gifts? The Magi themselves? What about the journey? That may not be the most obvious detail. But it has much to say to us as we set off on our journeys into the wilds of 2026.
Today’s worship service will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel at 10:30 am. Join us live, or watch the video here at a later time.
The bulletin for the service can be downloaded here.
Christmas brings great joy. As it did in Bethlehem long ago, as Luke tells us. But Christmas has a dark underbelly as well. In the way that it challenges the powers of this world that value only their own glory. That reality too, and it’s tragic consequences, are also part of the Christmas narrative. And while it might be a piece we prefer to ignore it’s also the bad news that makes the good news so good.
Today’s worship service will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel at 10:30 am. Join us live, or watch the video here at a later time.
The bulletin for the service can be downloaded here.
All are invited to join us as we continue to gather and celebrate the good news of our Saviour’s birth with the following services over the remainder of the Advent and Christmas seasons:
Today we hear the second story of Christ’s birth in the Bible. Second, less well known, but no less powerful. It’s a story that gives Joseph, Jesus’s earthly father, center stage. And in so doing brings out a dimension of the Christmas gospel that can sometimes get upstaged by Luke’s shepherds and angels and manger scene. But it’s a dimension that brims with hope for all who take the time to listen.
Today’s worship service will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel at 10:30 am. Join us live, or watch the video here at a later time.
The bulletin for the service can be downloaded here.
As we will be worshipping at St. Laurence Anglican Church (825 St. Laurence St., Coquitlam) at 10:30 AM! It will be another wonderful day of joint worship and fellowship and joy with our joint Sunday School Christmas pageant.
In the story of God’s calling of Mary to be the mother of Jesus (which we don’t read this Advent) the angel Gabriel says, “nothing will be impossible with God.” But somethings sure feel impossible, even for God. Like the prospect of a big, healthy tree cut off at the roots ever growing back again. And yet that’s exactly the image Isaiah uses to proclaim hope to the exiled people of God. And so, in a weird kind of way, is it also how John the Baptist proclaimed hope to a different generation. And to us.
Today’s worship service will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel at 10:30 am. Join us live, or watch the video here at a later time.
The bulletin for the service can be downloaded here.
Maybe you are one of those people who doesn’t need an alarm to wake up in the morning (thats not me!) But the truth is we all need a spiritual wake up call more than now and then. Our gospel wants to wake us up to the expectation of Christ coming again. But maybe there’s a lot more we need to wake up from, and wake up to. Can baptism be the alarm we all need…every day?
Today’s worship service will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel at 10:30 am. Join us live, or watch the video here at a later time.
The bulletin for the service can be downloaded here.
Christ the King Sunday may be one of the more obscure festivals in the church, but it’s probably one deep down we are attracted to you. After all, who doesn’t like the idea of having a king on their side. Especially one with divine power. Maybe, however, for just that reason it’s one of the more problematic festivals for us. For the Christ our gospel presents us with today hardly looks like one who’s on our side.
Today’s worship service will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel at 10:30 am. Join us live, or watch the video here at a later time.
The bulletin for the service can be downloaded here.
Maybe no question has occupied the minds and imaginations of theologians and ordinary Christians more over the centuries than the question of suffering. We are always straining to go back behind every experience of suffering to try and understand where it came from and why. But in our gospel today Jesus shifts our perspective and wants us to look forward. Maybe it’s there, he suggests, that we can find more satisfying insight on this age-old conundrum.
oday’s worship service will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel at 10:30 am. Join us live, or watch the video here at a later time.
The bulletin for the service can be downloaded here.