If the story we have just heard sounds familiar, there is a good reason for that! There are at least six occurrences in the Gospel of Jesus healing on a Sabbath Day (Healing of Simon Peter’s mother in law, the man with a withered hand, the crippled woman, the man with dropsy, the man at…

Today is our one Sunday in the whole liturgical year with a lesson from the Book of Ecclesiastes, so I thought it would be worth it to give it a little bit of our attention. If you don’t know the Book of Ecclesiastes, also called Qoheleth, well you have nothing to feel bad about since…

Today is one of these Sundays where the topic of our Gospel is quite obvious, isn’t it? We have three moments in our text: The teaching of the “Our Father”, the story known as “The parable of the friend at midnight”, and a list of sayings. All of these passages are about prayer, which is…

I don’t know if you have noticed but I think there is a little bit of an assumption in church that when there are stories with women in the Bible, it means they are stories for women. For this reason I guess, whenever we offer a study about “Women in the Bible”, hardly any man…

I was on the look out this week for good “Good Samaritans” stories in the news and I found plenty: An immigrant rescues a family from a fire by climbing on the window of their apartment, a young man saves a baby from a flood, a mom finds a kitten under a truck on a…

As our liturgical time after the Pentecost unfolds, we are going to spend more time in Luke’s Gospel. We started last Sunday and we continue today. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the way the Gospels were written, most scholars agree that Mark’s Gospel is the first to have been written, and then…

Pentecost 3, Proper 8C Rev Fanny Belanger Luke 9: 51-62 We’re now in the season after Pentecost, also called “Ordinary season”. I rather call it “The season of discipleship”, because it’s this time between Pentecost and Advent when we read from the Gospel about Jesus’s ministry and especially about Jesus’s teaching, how the disciples were…

I recently installed a new app on my phone, a prayer app, and I like it because unlike the prayer app I had before, it’s not just a bunch of readings you have to do on your own as if you were reading from a book. With this app, you can choose from a range…

Today is the feast of the Pentecost, it is also our last Sunday reading from the Book of Acts. We’re in Chapter 2 and it’s a little strange if you think about it because it’s like we finish up with the beginning, and more than that we finish up with where it all come from,…

Today, we are conveniently going to pick up exactly where we left off last week in the Book of Acts, that is in the middle of Chapter 16. If you were here last Sunday, you may remember that we talked about how Paul was called in a vision to minister to the people in Macedonia,…