Where Do You Locate Yourself in the Story?

Jessie, Ryan and Debbie made a Profession of Faith and become part of God’s unending story at Stairs United Church.

Shaped by Words

We are halfway through ‘ordinary time,’ the Season after Pentecost. A time when we learn what it means to be the hands and feet of Christ. The gospel readings are full of questions. Questions are one of the ways the community of disciples seeks to understand Jesus and his ministry. We, too, seek to understand…

Where Do We Locate Ourselves in the Story?

The art of memoir writing, in particular spiritual memoir writing, has been gaining in popularity over the last number of years, at least in the circles that I move in. I suppose one way we could understand at least some of the Biblical writings is to think of them as spiritual memoirs. Listen to the…

What’s Up With the Bible?

As you can see on the communion table, we have a variety of Bibles. How many of you read the Bible regularly? Do you find it easy to understand? Do you place equal value on all parts of it? Do you read it literally? Or is it a collection of books filled with inspired stories? Stories of how ancient people sought…