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The Parish

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We are a church that thinks like a cause.

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  1. the nudge | Aaron Holbrough

    Do you ever wonder if in our need explain an extraordinary experience..that we can sometimes lose a bit of the mystery that made it significant in the first place?

  2. Indirect | Jan Hux

    The shortest distance between two points may be a straight line. but when it comes to seeing the fruit of the Spirit produced in our lives, we may need to take an indirect route.

  3. the Gift | Aaron Holbrough

    God is not just an idea to be discussed, but a presence to be experienced.

  4. The things we carry | For each Other | Aaron Holbrough

    We don't carry one another just because we are strong enough to do it. We carry one another because love makes each others struggle matter to us

  5. The things we carry | Shame | Jan Hux

    When Jesus offered living water to the woman at the well, he already knew the details of her sordid life. But, instead of dwelling on that past, he seemed far more interested in how he could help her move forward.

  6. The things we carry | Aaron Holbrough

    Sometimes we keep carrying the consequences of someone else's sin, someone else’s choices long after they have stopped carrying them themselves.

  7. Old & New | Jan Hux

    In the parable we are looking at today, Jesus talks about honouring the things from the past without letting them keep us trapped in that past.

  8. for the REST of us | Aaron Holbrough

    Too often we get so busy building a life, that we never take time to live a life. That requires us to stop and examine what it is we are actually creating.

  9. DIVIDING LINES | A Parable | Jan Hux

    The rich man and Lazarus belonged to the same community but the walls between them prevented them from ever connecting.

  10. ON SECOND THOUGHT | a Parable | Aaron Holbrough

    Maybe spiritual maturity is not becoming someone who thinks they have it all figured out. Maybe it is becoming someone who is increasingly easy to surprise.

  11. the PARTY | Jan Hux

    The religious leaders disapproved of Jesus' loving acceptance of tax collectors and sinners. So Jesus gives them a parable to explain it.... and then invites them to join the party!

  12. TOMATO | THE PARABLE | Aaron Holbrough

    Sometimes the truth we're looking for doesn't arrive because we've finally figured it out. It’s is revealed when we've learned to notice what was growing in front of us all along.

  13. BEAUTY | Jan Hux

    We live in a world that ruthlessly pursues efficiency and productivity. In that kind of a world intangibles like beauty can get pushed to the margins. But Jesus may see a more central role for beauty.

  14. BRITTLE GOAT SKINNED WINE BAGS | Aaron Holbrough

    Celebrate when you recognize God at work in front of you, and search when you can’t. Both are spiritual practices. Both are holy work.

  15. Not Spectacular | Jan Hux

    We live in an age of spectacle and it can be tempting to think that the church needs to follow suit. But Jesus has a different idea.

  16. BONFIRE | Aaron Holbrough

    Jesus is starting a revolution, but not the kind anyone expected. His followers would have felt unqualified to challenge the systems around them. Yet Jesus insists that darkness is not defeated by power, but it is overcome by light.

  17. the consequence of goodness | Aaron Holbrough

    When you challenge the status quo....when you expose what others would rather ignore....when you call people back to the heart of God, opposition often follows.

  18. peace making | Jan Hux

    We sow the seeds of peace when we speak graciously, share generously and love deferentially

  19. undivided | Aaron Holbrough

    Have you ever felt that your life is spread too thin, with so many things competing for your attention, and loyalty. That shallow life is robbing us of not just seeing ourselves more clearly, but in seeing God more easily. Spirituality has always insisted that the sacred is found in the depths…

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  20. mercy, mercy! | Jan Hux

    Mercy-we need it more than we think...and we need to give it more than we think we do.

  21. eat and breathe justice | Aaron Holbrough

    What if we could find satisfaction in working towards justice, not just in the experience of justice, It would mean planting trees of whose fruit we might never get a chance to eat.

  22. choosing to be meek | Jan Hux

    When Jesus pronounces blessing on those who are meek he isn't addressing those who are weak and ineffectual but rather those who may have power and privilege but choose to hold them in reserve.

  23. the constellation of grief | Aaron Holbrough

    Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted... both troubles and intrigues me, if this is a promise, it doesn’t seem to work the way we think promises work.

  24. when empty is full (poor in spirit) | Jan Hux

    Jesus isn’t looking for religious rule-keepers with their noses deep in their bibles, he is looking for followers. Followers who know they aren’t good at it yet, so know they need to stick close and watch what Jesus does.

  25. GOLD in these HILLS | Intro | Aaron Holbrough

    A lot of things in this life can seem like an uphill battle. It can feel at times like these mountains-and God are working against us. Jesus will have us pause to consider that there might be Gold in these hills.

  26. Not the end of the story | Jan Hux

    Death, burial and resurrection - it is a story that captivates us; it is theology that grounds us and it is metaphor that shapes our lives.

  27. IT'S EASTER | CHECK AGAIN | Aaron Holbrough

    We often discover joy in places where happiness could not survive.

  28. good FRIDAY | Aaron Holbrough

    This is one of those stories were we are watching people who don’t fully understand what they are seeing. And if we’re honest… neither do we.

  29. reLENTless week six | After the Parade | Steve Kennedy

    What if the answer was as close as your next breath, you just have to breathe it in.

  30. reLENTless | A Village Between Them | Aaron Holbrough

    Two questions. Two answers. On opposite sides of the same road...one invitation remains.

  31. reLENTless | You can Have it All | Jan Hux

    Satan was offering a deal that sounded too good to refuse but Jesus knew enough to read the fine print!

  32. reLENTless | Spiritual Rummage Sale | Aaron Holbrough

    Faith isn't made real when God shows up, it is made real when you realize God never left.

  33. reLENTless | Stones to Bread | Jan Hux

    The tempter offers Jesus a convenient plan for dealing with his uncomfortable wilderness time. But, it seems some lessons can only be learned when we are in the desert and we are hungry.

  34. reLENTless | Where the wild things are | Aaron Holbrough

    What we become on the journey can matter as much as what we hope to find at the end.

  35. HUMAN KIND | Spectator Sport | Jan Hux

    Social trends and the availability of digital media seem to be shifting us toward becoming spectators in life. But Jesus invites us to get out of our armchairs and really see our neighbours.

  36. HUMANKIND | Loafing Around | Aaron Holbrough

    The hope of the world is not that God gives up on human kind and fixes everything without us. The hope of the world is that God refuses to abandon us…and keeps working through ordinary people.

  37. HUMAN KIND | Layer Cake | Jan Hux

    At the wedding in Cana, Jesus gives us a picture of how to be kind in a deeply human situation.

  38. HUMAN KIND | Be Both | Aaron Holbrough

    I wonder if the opening chapter of Genesis didn't tell us that Humanity was created in the image of God, we would have ever had the courage to look for it.

  39. READ THE LAST CHAPTER | Jan Hux

    What do we do when a "Herod" seems to threaten the very fabric of our lives? We may find it helpful to remember how the story will end!

  40. SLIM PICKINGS | Steve Kennedy

    Slim pickings. Two Psalms, three poems and one sermon.

  41. NOW | Aaron Holbrough

    We often live our lives vicariously in a different tense, our bodies are in the present, but our minds are rehearsing a future or replaying a past, rarely staying in the moment where is within reach.

  42. AFTER | Aaron Holbrough

    In some ways, putting Christmas away is more difficult that getting it out.

  43. ADVENT WEEK 4 | Making room for each other | Jan Hux

    Mary believed what the angel had told her but no one else seemed to. She felt terribly alone until Elizabeth made room for her and created a space that was healing for both of them.

  44. ADVENT WEEK 3 | Making room for peace | Aaron Holbrough

    When your desire to run is outmatched by your desire to stay, a beautiful kind of peace begins to appear. A peace that doesn't need outcomes to exist, it just needs the presence of God.

  45. ADVENT WEEK 2 | Making room for mystery | Jan Hux

    When Zechariah confronted a mystery that didn't fit into the tight and tidy quarters of his faith, he become overwhelmed with fear. Mary’s more flexible faith allowed her to sit with the mystery and to ponder it rather than run away from it.

  46. ADVENT WEEK 1 | Making room for story | Aaron Holbrough

    We cannot begin Advent with angels and wise men and choirs. We cannot start where the tinsel and glitter is. We have to begin small, quiet, and unnoticed. We have to begin the way the story grew in Mary. The way it still grows in us.

  47. What if we prayed like this | Jan Hux

    Set prayers and liturgy can feel stiff and impersonal if they are not part of our tradition but they may hold unexpected riches.

  48. More trouble than water | Aaron Holbrough

    A new life iwth an old mindset isn't freedom-it's a more comfortable prison.

  49. Troubling the waters | Steve Kennedy

    Jesus stirs the troubled waters of our lives with a question that heals more deeply than any answer ever could.

  50. Don't Worry | Jan Hux

    When we are stressed, being told "don't worry!" can feel at best insensitive. But what if we see it as an invitation rather than a critique?

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We are a church that thinks like a cause.

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