Sermons from August 2012

Ever been excited for a trip, only to be delayed? Detoured? That feeling of frustration, anxiety perhaps, as our best made plans sometimes unravel before our eyes! Well, it’s often like that in our life. Rarely do we find things going exactly according to plan. Yet, if we have the right perspective and understanding of how we were created to live out life on earth, we are…

Toronto is a modern, prosperous, multicultural, city with a highly skilled and educated workforce. One would think that the subject of faith would be absent from such a city, but not so. Torontonians consider themselves spiritual even if they do not participate in organized religion. But what does it mean to have faith, to increase faith, or even have great faith? Come…

Do you remember the feeling of opening a cereal box and finding a toy inside? Or going through an old pair of pants and finding some money in your pocket? In these moments of sheer delight, you may have even uttered a sound of glee.  Just think about the feeling of standing in front of billions of people waiting to receive your Olympic medal. If you had watched any of the…

When we view injustices around us, how do we react? Do we publicly or even privately wish that these people would pay for their wrongful ways? Jonah felt like that. He wanted to see a city and its people destroyed for their sinful living. He was given a mission by God to tell the people of Nineveh…

A second chance…a big surprise… the city changed: There is virtually nothing any of us can do to make God forget about us.  We may choose to run away from Him or to fall deeper into sin, but we are never far from His mercy and grace. Take it from someone who knows. Jonah was a man who…