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Join us for Mother Wendy Dixon's sermon:  Beware the Traps - Connecting with God. Does there have to be a gap between us and God? We've all felt it. Maybe during times of confusion or grief, maybe during times of loneliness or anguish. What can help us to be close to God especially in times of trouble. What are the traps? Wendy suggests that two core traps are "Energy" and &quo...

Join us for Mother Wendy Dixon's sermon: Mind the Gap-Connecting with God Ordinary Time  Wendy shares an insightful perspective about the sense of loneliness that can sometimes affect our feelings about God. The "gap" is a sense of loneliness that affects each of us since the fall of Adam and Eve. A sense of separation from God. Should we want to draw closer to God to bridge the &qu...

Join us for Canon Tim Clayton's sermon: Leading with Beauty. The Holy Trinity - Trinity Sunday In this impactful sermon, Tim takes us through church history and the doctrine of the Holy Trinity. Beneath the banners of Faith, Hope, and Love, the church has historically put forward the ideas of following truth, goodness, and beauty, in that particular order. Thinking that if we could show peopl...

Pentecost Join us for Cn Tim Clayton's sermon: Pentecost Join us for this inspiring sermon as we look at the story of Pentecost, and the birth of the church. Why did the early church grow to the place where it got itself "in trouble"? Why did people come from all over the Roman empire to visit and experience something in the central place where the community of the church was, and h...

Easter Week 7 Join us for Cn Tim Clayton's sermon: Ascension Day - Psalm 23 We continue our look at Psalm 23 and Ascension Day. New life that lasts forever. Join us for this insightful sermon as we continue walking through the story of Jesus in his ministry through the lens of his understanding of where he is going in his life, through death, to the resurrection, and to his ascension. Ascensi...

Easter Week 6 Join us for Cn Tim Clayton's sermon: A King After God's Own Heart Join us for this inspiring sermon as we continue walking through the story of Jesus in his ministry through the lens of his understanding of where he is going in his life, through death, and to the resurrection. We continue our look at Psalm 23 walking along with Jesus on the Road to Emmaus.  "Don't...

Easter Week 5 Join us for Cn Tim Clayton's sermon: The Good Shepherd Join us for this insightful sermon as we continue walking through the story of Jesus in his ministry through the lens of his understanding of where he is going in his life, through death, and to the resurrection. This week we look at the story of The Good Shepherd and Psalm 23. Where did Jesus get his teachings from? Do you...

Easter Week 4 Join us for Cn Tim Clayton's sermon: The Confidence of the Earliest Followers of Jesus What does it take to get confidence? How do you get it if you don't have it? Join us as Tim looks at this fascinating story from the gospel of Matthew 28, as a true reminder of how we can have confidence in Jesus. And just then some people were carrying a paralysed man lying on a bed.  No...

Easter Week 3 Join us for Cn Tim Clayton's sermon: As in Heaven, Also on Earth: I am Here With You, You're Not On Your Own This Easter season we continue our look at Resurrection Life. There's something about Jesus' life and teaching that shows us that he understands the moments of his life and his purpose, who he will minister too, who he will teach and break bread with, and u...

Easter Week 2 Join us for Cn Tim Clayton's sermon: Resurrection Life:  Living in the Eternal Present This Easter season we continue our look at Resurrection Life. Tim's insightful sermon helps lead us deeper into the resurrection of Jesus Christ and what it means for each one us in our life today. How does the promise of resurrection meet us now? How does the promise of resurrection life...

Easter Sunday Join us for Cn Tim Clayton's sermon: The Love at the Center of All that Is This Easter Sunday Tim introduces us to our new Easter sermon series. Tim walks us through the good news that "because He lives, I can face tomorrow..." touching on 4 main areas: Beauty, Pain, and Boredom, a conversation about the meaning of life; Forgiveness and Forgiving Your Enemies; Identity...

Lent Week 5 Join us for Cn Tim Clayton's sermon: Saint Patrick and The Wounded God This week Tim takes a fascinating look at the story of St. Patrick and some of the things that we may not be aware of in Patrick's ministry. St. Patrick is attributed with the third Christian witness against slavery. The New Testament is the first, the second is Gregory of Nyssa one of the early fathers of...

Lent Week 4 Join us for Mother Wendy Dixon's sermon: Crawling, Walking, Running: Jesus Withdrew to the Mountain, Finding Rest in a Busy World As a well known New England Spiritual Director, Wendy has a lot of insight into this area of finding rest. In this sermon she reminds us that when we commit to withdrawing from our "busyness", when we sit down and rest our minds and bodies to...

Lent Week 3- Join us for Bishop Andrew Williams' sermon: The Last, The Least, The Lost, and the Little. Andrew shares a timely message for the church in every season. Jesus is encouraging us to stand with the marginalized, to stand in the void and allow Him to reconnect the last, the least, the lost, and the little with God's promises and His unending love. We understand that the church...

Join us for Matt Vaselkiv's sermon: Crawling, Walking, Running: Learning to Grow Completely Into Who God Knows We Can Be As we continue our journey through Lent, a season of reflection, Matt takes a wonderful look at Hebrews 12, reminding us that God has something better in mind for each one of us. Looking at the great cloud of witnesses who have come before us, both in scripture, throughout...

Join us for Deacon Jen Keifer's sermon: What is The Story of Lent? We are creatures of story. Every culture around the globe centers on "storytelling". Each of us are lovingly created to live out a particular story of our own, in a particular time and place, all of our stories are held in God's grand act of God's story. Jen shares a fascinating message reminding us of our...

Join us for Mother Wendy Dixon's sermon: The Transfiguration of Jesus In this moment on Mount Tabor (a hill in Israel), Jesus was shifting his focus off of the miracles his disciples had witnessed Jesus doing,and onto WHO HE IS. Unlike Moses, who saw a burning bush, who's face shined with God's glory; unlike Paul who saw a bright light that blinded him on the road to Damascus; Jesus...

Join us for Cn Tim Clayton's sermon: Epiphany - The Presentation of Jesus In the past months we've walked through a season of waiting in the darkness hoping for the light (Advent), a season of celebrating (Christmas), and the last few weeks through the season of Epiphany wherein we look at the light and bask in the light and on the Feast of the Presentation, that journey comes to a close...

Join us for Cn Tim Clayton's sermon: Epiphany - An Encounter With God, Experiencing the Wonderful Authority of Jesus What if rather than reading the stories of Jesus as "observers" we could imagine an encounter with Jesus wherein we ourselves experience the authority and wonder of Jesus. If we could learn to do this we would be seeing it for what it's meant for. We could have a...

Join us for Cn Tim Clayton's sermon: Epiphany - The State of Our Communion Join us as Tim shares some insights as to what we see God doing in our lives, in our community, and where we see the Lord leading us at Trinity North Shore as we move forward together in this new year. Where are we? What is God doing? As we look at the gospel of Mark and the story of John the baptist and Jesus. Jesus s...

Join us for Cn Tim Clayton's sermon: January 6th - Epiphany - The Magi and The End of National Gods In this fascinating study on Epiphany, Tim looks at the journey of the Magi and the powerful and wonderfully unique beauty of the story of Jesus. One of the key things the gospel teaches us is that Jesus Christ is the end of "national gods". Throughout history different peoples and na...

Advent Week Four: Love Join us for Canon Tim Clayton's sermon for Advent Week 4, Loved and Not Forgotten This week we look at the beautiful story of Mary and the prayer known as the Magnificat. God has moved, Mary rejoices and declares that we have been remembered,  "the Lord has helped His servant Israel remembering His mercy, as He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and his descendants t...

Join us for this fascinating and inspiring sermon from Cn Tim Clayton. God now enters the story, walking through all the phases and challenges of our human life and experience so that He could identify fully with us. What happens when God sows the seed that's going to take down empires? Things can get crazy. Tim walks us through the Christmas story as Mary and Joseph travel to Bethlehem (whic...

Join us for Mother Wendy Dixon's sermon, Why Did God Choose the Name Jesus? Who are you? Who do you want to be? On the celebration of the Feast of Holy Name, Mother Wendy Dixon looks at the story of Jesus in the gospel of Luke, "And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb." Jesus, which m...

Advent Week Three: Joy Join us for Mother Wendy Dixon's sermon for Advent Week 3, Joy. 1 Thessalonians chapter 5 encourages us to... "Always rejoice, constantly pray, and in everything give thanks." Join us for Wendy's touching and powerful sermon as we continue our journey through Advent. The Good news on the Advent Sunday of Joy, is that when we fully move to Christ,  we disc...