The Parish

reLENTless | A Village Between Them | Aaron Holbrough

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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!

SLIM PICKINGS | Steve Kennedy

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

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.

AFTER | Aaron Holbrough

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

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.