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Proclamation! For Sunday, July 13, 2025 Fifth Sunday after Pentecost Who is my Neighbour? Reverend David Alenskis preaches a guest sermon today on a most familiar parable, the story of the good Samaritan who helps a person who has fallen in the road.  David explores the larger question of who, really, are our neighbours and what is our calling to serve them?   Like us on Facebook:    www.facebook....

Proclamation! For Sunday, April 13, 2025, Palm Sunday Reverend Shelley McVea begins Holy Week with insights into the sinful parts of ourselves, as we contemplate the passion of Christ.  Jesus is brought before Pilot.  Even though Pilot concludes that Jesus is innocent, Pilot condemns Jesus to suffer death on the cross.     Like us on Facebook:    www.facebook.com/churchwithreddoor/   If you would...

Proclamation! For Sunday, 6 April 2025, Fifth Sunday in Lent Reverend Shelley McVea considers the ways that the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, how we are like those who dream and soon, though we face difficulties now, we will be filled with laughter.   Like us on Facebook:    www.facebook.com/churchwithreddoor/   If you would like to speak with Reverend Shelley to have a conversation about li...

Proclamation! For Sunday, March 23, 2025, Third Sunday in Lent As the news of the world becomes more painful to hear, Reverend Shelley McVea considers the warnings that Jesus gave his disciples: get your lives together and trust in God.   Like us on Facebook:    www.facebook.com/churchwithreddoor/   If you would like to speak with Reverend Shelley to have a conversation about life or faith, person...

Proclamation! For Sunday, March 16, 2025, Second Sunday in Lent Of the many animals mentioned in the Bible, such as the lamb and the lion, Jesus chooses a most unlikely animal to compare himself: a hen.  A hen that gathers her chicks under her wings for protection.   Reverend Shelley McVea offers insight into the ways that Jesus protects us in his mercy.   Like us on Facebook:    www.facebook.com/...

When Jesus taught the disciples to pray, he gave them the words of the Our Father, a prayer we still pray today.   Reverend Shelley McVea reviews the importance of "Lead me not into temptation", in the context of Jesus fasting alone in the desert for 40 days, where he encounters Satan who tries to lead him into temptation.   

Proclamation! For Sunday, January 26, 2025 Reverend Shelley McVea leads us through Jesus’ first documented words, as Jesus speaks in a Synagogue.  The listeners are amazed that “Joseph’s Son” saying so many “gracious things”. What is Jesus doing? He is revealing himself through his teachings.  How did they react? They drove Jesus out of town.  Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany Like us on Facebook: ...

Proclamation! For Epiphany of the Lord, Sunday, January 5, 2025 Reverend Shelley McVea celebrates the arrival of the Magi in Bethlehem.   The Magi brought gifts to the child, and they bring gifts to us today, in the form of  wisdom they have given us:  1.        Follow the light that God has shown to you 2.        Be ready to change plans as needed  3.        Be the light that shines in the darkne...

Proclamation! For the Third Sunday of Advent, Sunday, 15 December 2024 Reverend Shelley McVea proposes the advent challenge, that we trust in the Lord, and, even harder, that we trust in joy.  Joy is a big ask, but it is one of the challenges of advent.     Like us on Facebook:    www.facebook.com/churchwithreddoor/   If you would like to speak with Reverend Shelley to have a conversation about li...

Proclamation! For the First Sunday of Advent, Sunday, 1 December 2024 Guest speaker Reverend David Alenskis joins us today with a message for the first Sunday in Advent.  Christmas is coming and we are in a state of readiness: how do we prepare? We prepare by paying attention, waiting and watching in a spirit of hopefulness.    * Like us on Facebook:    www.facebook.com/churchwithreddoor/   If you...

Proclamation! For Sunday, 24 November 2024 Reverend Shelley McVea celebrates the Reign of Christ with insights for a purposeful life, how we can allow the grace of the kingdom to change us and to enable us to conquer that which diminishes us, be it weakness, temptation, or addiction, our relationship with the king will transform us.  * Like us on Facebook:    www.facebook.com/churchwithreddoor/  ...

Proclamation! For Sunday, 17 November 2024 Reverend Shelley McVea preaches on the end of days, not as a time of catastrophic destruction, but as the revealing of God’s divine truth.   Like us on Facebook:    www.facebook.com/churchwithreddoor/ If you would like to speak with Reverend Shelley to have a conversation about life or faith, personal concerns or in the case of a pastoral emergency, pleas...

Proclamation! For the 16th Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday 8 September 2024 Reverend Shelley McVea takes us through a gospel story where Jesus does an unlikely thing, he meets a woman whom he does not want to heal.  He has gone to a remote place to take some time away from his ministry.  But this woman is in despair over her daughter’s illness, and she begs Jesus for healing.   * Like us on Faceboo...

Proclamation! For the 15th Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday 1 September 2024 Who Do You Say I Am?  Today we welcome a special guest preacher, David Alenskis, who engages with Mark’s gospel and asks, how does Jesus ask those around him to re-examine their values?  Jesus is asked why he lets his disciples eat without washing their hands in the properly designated way.  Jesus challenges the traditions...

Proclamation! For the 7th Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday 7 July 2024 Boast of my Weaknesses Despite the many challenges that Paul faced, Reverend Shelley McVea explains how Paul could still say that he will “boast of his weaknesses” because he experienced the power  of God to transform his sufferings and enabling him to be content.   *** Like us on Facebook:    www.facebook.com/churchwithreddoor/...

Proclamation! For the fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday 16 June 2024 Walking by Faith Today Reverend Shelley McVea ponders what it means to walk ‘by faith and not by sight’.  Does it mean that we accept beliefs without truly thinking about what we believe and that we may not have a handle on what’s really going on in the world.  But Shelley doesn’t think that is the case.  Many of us experienc...

Proclamation! For the second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sunday 9 June 2024 Familes and Forgiveness  Today Reverend Shelley McVea reminds us that we all come from families, some better, some worse, and even Jesus had a family.  We know of his birth to Joseph and Mary, and of Jesus’ presentation to the synagogue in his youth, but most of what we know about Jesus comes from the time when he was not wit...

Proclamation! For the first Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sunday 2 June 2024 The Lord Seaches and Will Find Us Today Reverend Shelley McVea reflects on Psalm 139:  a prayer to God that expresses the awesomeness of God.   As we seek for God, God also searches for us, knows who we are, and will find us, no matter where we are.   *** Like us on Facebook:    www.facebook.com/churchwithreddoor/   If you wou...

Proclamation! For Trinity Sunday, 26 May 2024 Reverend Shelley McVea explores the mystery of the Trinity: there is one God, but that God exists three dimensions: Heavenly God, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit.  The Trinity is mirrored in our human experience of relationships: our connection to God, our connections to others, and to ourselves.   *** Like us on Facebook:    www.facebook.com/church...

Proclamation! For Pentecost Sunday, 19 May 2024 The Intense Fire of the Holy Spirit Guest preacher James Beck joins us today for a sermon that brings insight to the extraordinary events of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit inflamed the Apostles and enabled them to speak so that listeners of all different languages could comprehend them.   In effect, the Holy Spirit broke down the barrier that had be...

Proclamation! For the Seventh Sunday of Easter, Ascension Sunday, 12 May, 2024 Reverend Shelley McVea describes how forty days are the ideal number of days for creating change in our lives.  Perhaps we choose to cease doing something negative, or we choose to improve a skill, perhaps practicing piano a few minutes every day.  Today we celebrate Ascension Sunday and mark the transformation of the a...

Proclamation! For the Sixth Sunday of Easter, 5 May 2024 104 Words Reverend Shelly McVea leads us through the 104 words of the Creed.  Written over a thousand years ago, these words summarize Christian faith:  We believe there is a God; we can choose to serve God; we can be forgiven by and strengthened through God’s abiding love.    *** Like us on Facebook:    www.facebook.com/churchwithreddoor/  ...

Proclamation! For the Fifth Sunday of Easter, 28 April 2024 Reverend Shelly McVea celebrates spring with a sermon that reminds us that spring is a time of planting, but it is also a time for pruning so that our gardens will prosper.  Spiritually, we are branches growing on a holy vine, and our spiritual practice needs tending, nourishment, and care.  Jesus said to his disciples, “I am the true vin...

Proclamation! For the Third Sunday of Easter, 14 April 2024 Reverend Shelley McVea reminds us that Jesus is stronger than all earthly powers as we consider together the time when Jesus manifested among the disciples after the resurrection and asked them for something to eat.  He was given broiled fish, and he ate the food with them, and gave them the same reassurance that he gives to us, that he l...

Proclamation! For the First Sunday of Easter, 7 April 2024 After the crucifixion the apostles gather behind locked doors, fearing for their lives.  The resurrected Jesus appears to them and greets them with “Shalom”, with peace.  Jesus shares the evidence of his wounds, and by his wounds the apostles recognize him.  Thomas, who had doubted, cries out, “My Lord and My God.”   *** Like us on Faceboo...