Tag Archives: Prairie Presbyterian Church

A Sermon for Black History Month

Below is a recording of a sermon I preached this past Sunday at Prairie Presbyterian Church.  My text was John 3:1-21.  As I was working on the sermon, I began to notice interesting connections between the story of Nicodemus’s encounter with Jesus and our current cultural struggles surrounding race in North America.  The fact that I’ve been reading Jonathan Tran’s insightful book, Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism, is also surely a contributing factor.  The first part of the sermon is sure to aggravate cultural warriors on the left and the right, but I do think the second half gestures towards a more distinctive Christian approach to this set of problems. Continue reading A Sermon for Black History Month

A Sermon for Trinity Sunday

I preached on Trinity Sunday (June 12) at Prairie Presbyterian Church in Winnipeg, MB.  Below is the text of my sermon on the lectionary texts:  Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31; Psalm 8Romans 5:1-5John 16:12-15. Continue reading A Sermon for Trinity Sunday

“God’s Unpredictable Plans”

The following is a response I was invited to recently give to chapter 1 of Matt Brough’s forthcoming book Let God Send: Crossing Boundaries and Serving in Christ’s Name.  Matt is the Minister of Word and Sacraments at Prairie Presbyterian Church in Winnipeg, Manitoba.  He also serves as the Program Coordinator for the New Worshiping Communities Initiative of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. Continue reading “God’s Unpredictable Plans”