The Pearl of Great Price
GIVING AND RECEIVING What’s more fun? Receiving things or giving things away? They’re both good, right. You can enjoy both. It’s fun to get stuff. I like presents. I like […]
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Rev. Kim Gilliland
Preparing the Soil
REMEMBERING THE PARABLE The scripture that we are going to be studying this morning is a rather odd one. It’s a parable. The fact that it’s a parable isn’t odd.
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When Fear Turns to Promise
INTRODUCTION Over the past three weeks we were talking about how God is the God of the turnarounds. God takes things that go against us and he switches them around
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When Despair Turns to Hope
NOT SARAH’S FINEST MOMENT This morning is our third instalment in a series of messages about how God is the God of the turnarounds. Two weeks ago, we used the
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When Complacency Turns to Surprise
BACKGROUND Here we are at week two of a series that focuses on how God is the God of the turn arounds. God has a way of taking that which
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When Chaos Turns to Order
TOHU WA-VOHU God is a God of the turnarounds. God has a way of taking that which is not good and turning it around into something positive and beneficial. We’re
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Making Way for the Spirit
PENTECOST Today is Pentecost Sunday and while we don’t quite make as much of it as we used to in the Church, it is considered to be one of the
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Defending Your Faith
THE REASONS WHY OUR CHILDREN LEAVE THE CHURCH I want to begin this message with warning. What I am going to say this morning may upset some you because I’m
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It All Starts Somewhere
BABY FOOD When I read the passage from 1 Peter earlier this week, the first thing I thought was, “Wow, isn’t that appropriate for Mothers Day.” 1 Peter 2:2-3 (NIV)
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Loving Deeply
EASTER CONTINUES Two weeks ago, we celebrated Easter. We declared that Christ is risen, that Jesus broke the chains of sin and gates of hell and rose again triumphant from
Finding Courage
THE EASTERN STAR & ESTHER It certainly is a privilege this morning to be joined by the women from the Eastern Star. My father was a Mason which means that
Called to Go
SUNDAY’S COMING It’s Friday and he is dead. His lifeless body was taken down from the cross on Calvary and placed in a temporary tomb until the end of the