This week we will be looking at Mark 7:1-23. Here Jesus looks at the topic of defilement, To defile is to mar or spoil something, make it less beautiful or pure. Once again the Pharisees and some teachers of the
For the last few weeks we’ve seen that Jesus is exceptional in so many ways. This week we find Him in the temple courts sitting among the teachers, listening, and asking questions in Luke 2:41-52. That is a conversation I
Imagine if everywhere you went there was someone there trying to trap you or just waiting for you to slip up and say the wrong thing. In some ways, that is exactly what Jesus dealt with wherever He went. In
As we continue on in our Incidents in the Life of Jesus Christ sermon series we come to prayer. Jesus took prayer very seriously. In Matthew 6:5-15 we have what has come to be known as the “The Lord’s Prayer”.
This week as we look at incidents in the life of Christ we look at the “preaching Christ”. Matthew 5-7 (The sermon on the Mount) is the most extended and detailed sermon we have that Jesus preached. Jesus packs a
We’ll be spending some time looking at incidents in the life of Christ over the next little while. Today we start … you guessed it … at the very beginning with His birth and Baptism. Luke 1:26-38, Luke 3:21-22, and John
This week at Living Faith it is going to look at little different. We will be talking about some of our favourite songs and the stories behind them. And we will be focusing on Jesus and how he recharged when
Rev. Jim Johnson is back with the second part of his series “Encountering God”. I remember camping when our kids were fairly young. We managed to get one of the last sites in the camp ground and it looked gorgeous.
After being ordained, I began my ministry in Kapuskasing. For those of you who don’t know where Kap is, get on the 400, follow it up until you find Hwy 11, then keep driving until the highway turns west, and