Living Faith Anglican Church

Sermon by Fr. Peter Smith ACNA World Mission Sunday One Anothering Series Discussion Questions When you hear the phrase “bear one another’s burdens,” what image comes to your mind (Gal. 6:2)? Why does Paul say that bearing one another’s burdens fulfills “the law of Christ”? In what ways does bearing one another’s burdens connect to the work of mission? Bearing another believer’s burdens can be a t...

Sermon by Fr. Bob Fabey 4th Sunday of Epiphany One Anothering Series Discussion Questions: Who do you have trouble honoring? How does this align with what God honors? What does it mean to honor someone when you don’t like them? How is honoring one another linked to our relationship with Christ? How can you “go first” or "lead the way” in honoring someone you know?

Sermon by Fr. Bob Fabey One Anothering Series Discussion Questions: What does it mean to treat one another carefully? How can you use ‘gold’ to put another person ’together’? Build them up? How do you view your own ‘cracks’? Do you see them with shame and guilt or part of what God is doing that is good and beautiful? What is one step you can do to ‘practice kintsugi’ with those around you?

Sermon by Fr. Peter Smith 2nd Sunday of Epiphany One Anothering Series Discussion Questions: Have you ever noticed all the waiting that’s involved with Holy Communion?  What’s been your response to that? What virtues are connected to the ability to wait for one another? Why is waiting for one another essential to the practice of Communion? Why is waiting for one another an essential characteristic...

Sermon by Fr. Peter Smith Epiphany Sunday Questions for Group Discussion 1. In what way does the local church provide the context in which believers practice their restored relationship to God and to others? 2. In 2 Corinthians 13:11b, the exhortation to “agree with one another” is about 1 choosing to agree 2 about one another 3 and about the Gospel.  Describe the significance of these three thing...

Sermon by Fr. Peter Smith 2nd Sunday of Christmas Questions for Group Discussion 1. How does who our child/ren belong to (whether us or to God) affect the way we relate to them as parents? 2. If our children belong to God, what desires and expectations does God have for what they become? 3. Practically speaking, what does it look like to make our children’s love for God the top priority in their d...

Sermon by Fr. Bob Fabey 1st Sunday of Christmas

Sermon by Fr. Peter Smith 4th Sunday of Advent

Sermon by Fr. Bob Fabey 3rd Sunday of Advent Questions for Group Discussion 1. What do you find yourself looking (or maybe longing for) each day and week? (ie, not your wallet or glasses, but peace, joy, meaning etc.) 2. The Resurrection means… that people already dead would be given new bodies would return to an embodied life not entirely unlike the one they had had before They would exist in God...

Sermon by Fr. Peter Smith 2nd Sunday of Advent Questions for Group Discussion 1. In what ways is the cross inherently connected to Christ’s future judgment of the living and the dead? 2. How would you describe what it means that judgment “cuts two ways”? 3. Of the things that God’s judgment accomplishes, which one do you find yourself longing for the most at this time? 4. Pick one of the four ways...

Sermon by Fr. Peter Smith 1st Sunday of Advent Questions for Group Discussion 1. In the course of a normal week, how often are you mindful of the truth that Christ will come again in glory? 2. When Christ’s second coming comes to your mind, what feelings typically accompany it? 3. How does Advent help us resist both despair of this life and inordinate love of this life? 4. When Jesus or the Apostl...

Sermon by Fr. Peter Smith 24th Sunday of Ordinary Time Questions for Group Discussion 1. Read Luke 23:39-43. In what ways are the two thieves the same, and in what ways are they different? 2. Have you considered that these two thieves represent us: humanity?  What is significant about that? 3. When the second thief says, “ Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom,”  what do you think he...

Sermon by Dcn. Robert Polen 23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time Questions for Group Discussion 1. How is our situation similar to the situation of the first generation of the church as it waited for the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem? 2. Jesus warns the church that there are two ways they can be led astray. Where do you see evidence of these two ways in the life of the church? 3. Why is it import...

Sermon By Bp. Assiel Musabyimana 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time

Dedication by Fr. Peter Smith All Saints Sunday

Sermon by Fr. Peter Smith 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time Questions for Group Discussion 1. In what ways do the Pharisee and the tax collector represent a different spiritual posture towards God, towards themselves, and towards others? 2. How does the physical posture of each man as they prayed say something about their spiritual posture? 3. What does it mean that Jesus says only the tax collector wa...

Sermon by Dcn. Robert Polen 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time Discussion Questions 1. Read  Luke 17:20-37 . How does Jesus describe the context in which we are called to pray? 2. How does Jesus describe the hopelessness of the widow’s situation? How does this story encourage us to pray always and not lose heart? 3. How should we understand our experience of justice seeming to be delayed with Jesus’ pro...

Sermon by Fr. Bob Fabey 18th Sunday of Ordinary Time

Sermon by Fr. Bob Fabey 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time

Sermon by Fr. Peter Smith 16th Sunday of Ordinary Time

Sermon by Fr. Peter Smith 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time

Presentation by the August Travel Team to Rwanda Rwanda Sunday / 14th Sunday of Ordinary Time

Sermon by Fr. Peter Smith 13th Sunday of Ordinary Time

Sermon by Dcn. Robert Polen 12th Sunday of Ordinary Time

Sermon by Fr. Peter Smith 11th Sunday of Ordinary Time