Messages From Rev. Don Gibson
Three Good Reasons to do Church
1 June, 2011
Have you ever found yourself wondering why we do church? There are many reasons we might consider for why we go to church. Perhaps it is tradition or habit or to grow in faith or the music or the lovely sanctuary or our friends or we are involved in the church’s activities and outreach. Why [...]
Read More >>More Than Our Brains
1 May, 2011
I am currently reading a book on the brain entitled “A Whole New Mind” by Daniel Pink. The book looks at how we have come to understand the left and right side of our brains. The right and left side of our brain function together but each side has specific functions. The right side controls [...]
Read More >>Having a Bad Day
31 March, 2011
Sometimes I have a really bad day! Like the children’s book, “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day”. Recently I had a week like that! I will not bore you with the details but it was a stretch where anything that could go wrong went wrong and a whole lot more. As [...]
Read More >>What do you do with Lent?
28 February, 2011
I grew up in a United Church tradition that observed Christmas, Palm Sunday, Good Friday and Easter, and not much in between. Advent was unheard of unless your background was Methodist. Pentecost sounded overly emotional and Lent was something that Roman Catholics and Anglicans did, although we always had a Pancake Dinner. We also made [...]
Read More >>Faith by Increments
7 February, 2011
With the Christmas Season behind us, our attention on Sunday mornings turns to the lessons involving Jesus’ early ministry and the calling of his disciples. I am always drawn to the dramatic stories of how those first disciples of Jesus seem to so readily leave their old lives behind and in faith, take that [...]
Read More >>Celebrating Christmas?
5 December, 2010
With the approach of the Christmas Season we will again be caught up in discussions about whether our society has marginalized Christmas, turned it into a consumer extravaganza or reduced it to a warm and fuzzy secular holiday. What do you think? Actually, what we think does not really matter much as the proverbial “cows [...]
Read More >>What will be your memorial?
6 October, 2010
I have always been a baseball fan. I remember as a boy, trips from Sarnia to Detroit to see the Tigers. I attended the Expos original home opener in 1969 and the Jays in 1977, and have the tickets framed on my office wall. For many seasons, I did chapel services on Sundays for the [...]
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