Upcoming Preaching

November 25, 2018 – Prairie Presbyterian Church, Winnipeg, MB

November 27, 2018 – Providence Seminary Chapel, Otterburne, MB

Lectures and Presentations

• “A Plea for Pointless Preaching,” Providence Theological Seminary, Otterburne, MB (Nov. 1, 2018)

• “Teaching Preaching in a Time of Cultural Change: The Forgotten Story of John J.A. Proudfoot, Knox College,” Canadian Society of Presbyterian History Annual Conference, Knox College, Toronto, ON (Sept. 29, 2018)

• “Parsing the Grammar of Atonement,” Providence Theological Seminary, Otterburne, MB (Mar. 21, 2018)

• “Confessing Christ in Troubled Times: Bonhoeffer as a Resource for Preachers,” Tyndale Preaching Conference, Toronto, Ontario (Mar. 6, 2018)

• Series: “Bonhoeffer: Following Jesus in a Fragmented World,” Whitby Christian, Whitby, Ontario (Jan. 17, 24, 31, Feb. 7, 2018)

• “Ecclesiological Developments in Canadian Evangelical Theology,” Evangelical Theology: New Challenges, New Opportunities Conference, Northeastern Seminary, Rochester New York (Oct. 21, 2017)

• Working Together for ONE Purpose: Panel Discussion, Tyndale Seminary, Toronto, ON (Mar. 9, 2017)

• “Confessing Christ in Troubled Times: Bonhoeffer as a Resource for Preachers,” Preaching Day, Wycliffe College, Toronto, ON (Feb. 27, 2017)

• “‘It’s the End of the World as We Know It’: Paul, the Kingdom, and Living Between the Times,” Kingdom Come: Awakening to a Gospel-Centred Life, Bayview Glen Alliance Church, Toronto, ON (2016)

• “Reading Faithfully: Approaching the Bible as Holy Scripture,” Knox Presbyterian Church, Toronto, ON (2016)

• “A Matter of Mission: Bonhoeffer’s ‘Longing for the Concretion of Divine Grace’,” Participating in God’s Mission Conference, Northeastern Seminary, Rochester, NY (2016)

• “Trinitarian-Shaped Church and Mission,” Knox Presbyterian Church, Toronto, ON (2015)

• “Trinitarian Renewal: What’s Happening? Why it Matters?” Knox Presbyterian Church,
  Toronto, ON (2015)

• “Unapologetically (A)Political:  Stanley Hauerwas and the Practice of Preaching,” Canadian Evangelical Theological Association Annual Meeting, Ottawa, ON (2015)

• Summer Series: “Discipling Dietrich: Exploring the Radical Christian Life and Vision of Dietrich Bonhoeffer,” Knox Presbyterian Church, Toronto, ON (2014)

1. “Cheap Grace and the Costly Discipleship of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”
2. “Jesus Means Peace: Bonhoeffer, the Sermon on the Mount and the Controversy of Christian Pacifism”
3. “Kingdoms in Conflict: Bonhoeffer and Hitler’s Third Reich”
4. “A New Kind of Monasticism: Practices for Radical Community from Bonhoeffer’s Underground Seminary”
5. “Sharing in the Sufferings of God: Bonhoeffer, Martyrdom, and Religionless Christianity”

• “The Adventure of Discipleship,” Congregational Christian Churches in Canada National Conference, Toronto, ON (2014)

• “Thinking About Preaching with Bonhoeffer,” North Park Worship Centre, Brampton, ON
  (2013)

• “The Stories that Speak Us,” Byron United Church, London, ON (2013)

• “Modernity, Post-modernity and the Christian Story,” University Studies in Christian Perspective, Tyndale University College, (2012)

• “The Church as God’s Garden,” Knox Presbyterian Church, Toronto, ON (2012)

• “The Life and Witness of Dietrich Bonhoeffer,” Byron United Church, London, ON (2012)

• “The Theology, History and Practice of Christian Worship,” Good Shepherd Community Church, Scarborough, ON (2011)

 

Recent Past Preaching

Providence University College and Theological Seminary (Otterburne); Westwood Presbyterian Church (Winnipeg); Amberlea Presbyterian Church (Pickering); Knox Presbyterian Church (Toronto); North Park Worship Centre (Brampton); Byron United Church (London); Yorkminster Park Baptist Church (Toronto); Guildwood Community Presbyterian Church (Scarborough); Tyndale University College & Seminary (Toronto); Knox Church (St. Catharines); Providence Theological Seminary (Otterburne, MB); St. Andrew’s Chalmers (Uxbridge); Redeemer Evangelical Free Church (Scarborough); Fallingbrook Presbyterian Church (Scarborough); St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church (Nobleton); Burns’ Presbyterian Church (Ashburn); Wycliffe College (Toronto); St. John’s, Milliken Presbyterian Church (Scarborough); Good Shepherd Community Church (Scarborough); St. James’ – St. Luke’s Presbyterian Church (Oshawa); St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church (King City); St. James’ Presbyterian Church (Stouffville); Malvern Presbyterian Church (Scarborough); Melville Presbyterian Church (Scarborough)