Cedar Park United Church

Renew Our Call to Love

Acts 1: 6-14

In an article in Sojourners magazine* this month that Elisabeth Jones gave me at the retreat yesterday, Justo Gonzalez, a Cuban-born theological educator, claims that humour is one way the author of Luke-Acts was engaging in “moderate subversion of an early church that was becoming increasingly exclusive in its models of leadership.” (Continued)

The God in Whom We Live and Move and Have our Being

Acts 17:22-31

Paul in speaking in Athens describes the God who created the world and everything in it, who is the universal giver of life and breath to all that lives, (Continued)

A Sacred Place

Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16
1 Peter 2:4-10
John 14:1-4

Each of our Scriptures are written for people living in the midst of trying times and they all, in their own way, speak about a sacred place…a place where the holy and the human encounter. (Continued)

Of Pastures and People

Acts 2:42–47
John 10:1–10
Psalm 23

[Delivered by Elisabeth Jones]

You’ve probably noticed by now that there are a lot of sheep today. (Continued)

Conversations that Transform

Luke 24:13-25

They were getting out of town; running away from the trauma they’d experienced. (Continued)

Faithful DoubtJohn 20:19-29
Psalm 16

Last week we celebrated Easter. We sang our Hallelujahs. (Continued)

A RomanticTableau?

Psalm 118
Matthew 21:1-11

When I returned to church after having left it in university, I found that understanding the cross and what it meant was a real struggle. (Continued)

With Eyes Wide Open
John 9:1-41