Audio of Rev. Robert Campbell’s sermon called “Saying the Right Thing at the Right Time” on July 11th, 2010.

Audio of Rev. James Christie's sermon on June 20th, 2010.

Rev. James Christie gave the sermon at the service in which he praised Robert for his steadfast attention to the basic issues of the Christian faith.

Sermon...

Each of us is an individual.
Well, sometimes, maybe!

On the one hand there are notions of “standard” lives, and “standard” people (Baby- boomers, The X generation, The A generation, The Post-Modernists), notions which prompt movers and shakers to sniff out our similarities and use them to entice us into living lives not always of our own choosing, to holding attitudes that don’t stand up to the scrutiny of our own critical thinking, to spending and acquiring things we don’t need; the culture we live in therefore encouraging us to adopt a “sense of self” without encouraging much in the way of our personal input. Read More...

Rev. Dr. James Christie's Remembrance service address November 8, 2009.

Remembrance service on Vimeo.

Joan Jarvis Preachers Her Final Sermon To The Westminster Congregation.

Joan Jarvis Preachers Her Final Sermon To The Westminster Congregation.

Thanks to Ernest for allowing us to carry this video on our website. His text for the sermon was "God is Love” 1 John 4:8b. The sermon was entitled "When God Was A Woman".
Also, thanks to Len LaRue and Keith Strachan for handling the technical end of this upload. Read More...

“Never Out of His Hands”
A Sermon by Rev. Robert Campbell.

With thanks to Dr. James Christie for his excellent sermon delivered on Sunday, March 6, and for his permission to upload the video to our website.

The video quality is not the best (we'll do better in the future) but the audio is fine. We didn't use YouTube because the item is over 10 minutes long, but we're happy to have access to "Vimeo" on this occasion. Thanks to Len LaRue for reformating the video tape to a DVD. And thanks to James Campbell for reformating the DVD to Internet and looking after the uploading. Click here and enjoy! Read More...

February 2 is Groundhog Day. It works like this: if the groundhog emerges from hibernation and sees his shadow, this then means six (6) more weeks of Winter.

We are told – always a great way of explaining something that has spurious origins – that it was German settlers in Pennsylvania who began the tradition of watching if a groundhog saw its shadow … and this in 1887 ! The groundhog in that particular locale is referred to as Punxsutawney Phil. Read More...

Today we celebrate that Braden, James, Kayla and Tyler have heard God’s call in their lives as they have chosen to be confirmed – which is in effect an affirmation of their Baptism. They stood before us and declared their faith - and in so doing, have provided this community an opportunity to reflect upon God’s call in our own lives. Read More...

I get a malicious twinkle in my eye when I hear some of the Christmas carols we sing. Case in point, Away In A Manger. Among the lyrics we find: the cattle are lowing, the baby awakes, but little Lord Jesus, no crying he makes.

Whoever wrote those words never had kids. Or is the counter to that, whoever had kids, never had the Son of God as a kid?

The implication is of course that Jesus was the PERFECT baby. Had to be, did he not? I try not to think about things like that, because I just get dizzy with how logic and piety clash to produce drivel.

Then come the wise men. Read More...

(We don’t get many of these but would be happy to publish any that you care to share with the rest of us. Short or long, if you’ve read a book that really interested you we’d like to hear from you.)

The Year of Living Biblically - One Man’s humble quest to follow the Bible as Literally as Possible. (A.J.Jacobs-Simon & Schuster)

Not a title for a mass-market audience! I wouldn’t have thought of reading it except that my daughter, Liisa, recommended it for its readability and humour. She was right. Read More...

Sojourn in England

As I look out the window today, January the 14th, Temperature 37 degrees C with the wind chill, I recall the relatively balmy clime in London, England at this time last year. Fred was on a 6 month sabbatical leave to work with a colleague at St. Mary’s University in London. In the early 1970’s we spent 2 years in Salisbury and London so this was somewhat of a swan song at the other end of Fred’s career in academic medicine. Our daughter Katie is presently finishing her PhD in Water Toxicology in London. We were enjoying being near to her, if only for six months. Read More...

An Upstaging Of The Christmas Story

Monkeys. The story is told of a dozen monkeys in a large cage. In the middle of the cage is a ladder at the top of which is a bunch of bananas. Every time that any monkey tries to climb the ladder to acquire a banana, all the monkeys are hosed down with ice-cold water. Within a relatively short period of time, no one tries climbing the ladder anymore. Read More...

Some Eccentric Scientists

A more recent scientist, who made somewhat of a name for himself in experimental circles, despite being a theoretical physicist, was Wolfgang Pauli, an Austrian who is best remembered, perhaps, for the Pauli principle in physics but also, among many, for the Pauli ‘effect’. Pauli was a clumsy experimentalist and a notably poor lecturer but was a brilliant theoretician.... Read More...