Basket Case - @ Lakeview Church

Preaching from Exodus 12 on Death and what the Passover means for us today. At Lakeview Church.

"The story of The Passover, is the exodus story for the Israelites. It’s the story of one people being set free from slavery to worship God so they can become fully human, fully free. The Gospel of Jesus Christ - the story of his life, death and resurrection - is the exodus story for everyone. It’s the story of God coming himself and setting us free from the power of sin & death, it is the story of God showing us what it looks like to be fully human, fully free."

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Getting Perspective On Privilege

As a child I went to Keheewin Elementary School. The school’s name “came from Chief Keheewin of the Cree Indian Band…named after the ‘Eagle’ (‘Kehew’ in Cree).” But while attending there I don’t recall ever meeting any Cree people, or First Nations people of any kind, for that matter. Even though I grew up living on Treaty Six Territory I had no knowledge that such a treaty existed. Nor did I have any meaningful connection with the Plains and Woods Cree, Assiniboine, or other nations who signed that treaty, a treaty that made it possible for immigrant families, like mine, to live a quiet suburban life in Edmonton, AB.

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Forgive Us Our Trespasses: Colten Boushie and the Gerald Stanley Trial

On a hot August day in 2016, a car full of young adults drove onto the property of a Saskatchewan farm. Those in the car say they were looking for help with a flat tire. Those living on the farm say the occupants of the car were trying to steal property and were trespassing on their land. Whatever the case, we know that by the end of this encounter the farm owner, Gerald Stanley, had shot and killed one of those in the car, a young man named Colten Boushie.

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Barn Find - @ Lakeview Church

On New Years Eve I preached at Lakeview Church in Saskatoon, talking about eyes to see and ears to hear as we read Luke 2:22-38.

"Part of what Jesus shows us is that above all God is gracious and compassionate. God wants us to see the world around us with eyes of grace. That is what Jesus shows us, because that is what God is like, and if that is what God is like then that is what reality is like. The world of the rat race, of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, of getting what you deserve - that’s the illusion. The reality is Grace."

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