This weekend is Christ the King Sunday. And as I'm sure you've heard me say, it is New Year's Eve in the liturgical calendar - the end of the old year before it begins anew next Sunday with Advent. We will be looking at a passage from Jeremiah. In it, the prophet is responding to the extremely problematic state of affairs in ancient Judah. For several generations, the kings who have risen up over Israel did not follow God's commands. They tore the people apart by supporting o

One of my lesser known talents is that during university I served as a worship leader for one of our local college ministries. A whole lot of the music we used had some really bad theology. Like, really, really terrible. However, a few of the songs were dripping with scripture - much like our Book of Confessions - and I can still find myself singing them from time to time. There was one song in particular that was based on the psalms that we sang the night before I left to go

Last month Grace celebrated her thirteenth birthday. It was in October that we were officially chartered as a family of faith. As so many other churches in our denomination (and so many others) are grappling with how to embrace change, Grace has already lived out a real-life resurrection story. Three churches faced their death and came out on their other side. They embraced transformation (even though it had its really rough patches), and here we sit nearly a decade and a hal

"Sacred Family in the Streets" by Kelly Latimore In 2016, our General Assembly committed our denomination to reaffirming our connection to one of the most central teachings Jesus ever gave. Years later it became a movement - one that Grace intentionally joined, too.   The passage answers the age-old question, if Jesus came back tomorrow, what would he ask us?   In Matthew 25, Jesus actually tells a parable that responds to that very query. It is about the Messiah coming in gl