The Parish
The Parish, a re imagined faith community. Consider supporting our efforts to inspire a better world of faith and hope - goto www.theparish.ca and click on ’give’. Thanks for your support!
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Episodes
Saturday Oct 21, 2023
Saturday Oct 21, 2023
Lewis Smedes has said that to forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
Saturday Oct 14, 2023
Saturday Oct 14, 2023
It is said that judgement and curiosity are mutually exclusive. But when we stay curious, we make space for love.
Sunday Oct 08, 2023
Sunday Oct 08, 2023
Love that isn't expressed...isn't love. It looks a whole lot different when it is out of the box.
Saturday Sep 30, 2023
Saturday Sep 30, 2023
What if everything has a cause but not everything has a reason….and what if God has invited us to give it a reason-which makes it meaningful.
Sunday Sep 24, 2023
Sunday Sep 24, 2023
Our problem it turns out isn't desire, but disordered desire.if we could find a way to understand what God values, then perhaps our own would line up accordingly.
Saturday Sep 16, 2023
Saturday Sep 16, 2023
When we come to a place where we can stop bolstering our ego by comparing ourselves to others, we may find that everyone wins.
Sunday Sep 10, 2023
Sunday Sep 10, 2023
It is amazing what Jesus has to say to us, if we would only let him speak.
Sunday Sep 03, 2023
Sunday Sep 03, 2023
Some questions can’t lead to answers because there’s no answer good enough, and they bounce off the heavens like a bird off a window.
Sunday Aug 27, 2023
Sunday Aug 27, 2023
Do you remember a time in your life when you were presented with a fork in the road? For me, the fork was clear - One path led to baptism in the Christadelphian church and taking my place as a brother. The other path let me into the wider world.
Sunday Aug 13, 2023
Sunday Aug 13, 2023
Most of us would stop doing the things that are destroying us, if only we believed we could.
Sunday Aug 06, 2023
Sunday Aug 06, 2023
Imagine if we not only experienced God in our filet Mignon, but also in our mustard.
Saturday Jul 29, 2023
Saturday Jul 22, 2023
Saturday Jul 22, 2023
Jesus may be less concerned about what we do with our money than what our money does to us.
Sunday Jul 16, 2023
Sunday Jul 16, 2023
"When a flower doesn’t bloom you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower." ~Alexander Den Heijer
Sunday Jul 09, 2023
Sunday Jul 09, 2023
Lisa Janz is a professor of Archeology at the University of Toronto who believes in deep time, she is also deeply spiritual, and one of the many voices that make up our rich and diverse community called the Parish.
Sunday Jul 02, 2023
Sunday Jul 02, 2023
Our practice of faith can be a set of activities that touch the surface of our lives but Jesus wants to get at the substance.
Sunday Jun 25, 2023
Sunday Jun 25, 2023
In the end what have you gained if you have it all, but it cost you everything?
Saturday Jun 17, 2023
Saturday Jun 17, 2023
We may numb ourselves to avoid it but at some level we all know the existential ache of spiritual beings who are trapped in physical bodies.
Parishable
What if you believed that you could make the world a better place. How would that change the way you see and interact with strangers, your neighbors, your co workers, your family
And what if you weren’t the only one If there were others who shared this conviction - that God’s love for us desires to produce love in us and not just in us....but through us. Imagine all the great things we could do fuelled by the conviction that this is part of why we exist.
Belief is not just about knowing God, but joining God, It’s not just about trusting that God is at work in our world but believing that we can be at work in His, partnering with what he is already up to.
Our motivation to meet is outmatched by our motivation to matter…making a difference in our communities, our world.
A fresh expression of serving, loving, engaging. Part of a growing faith community, that is following Jesus wherever he goes, sharing his message of hope and love and extending his peace in our world.
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