Author Archives: Pastor Peter

of being sick and tired. I am sick at home these days – cough, fever, achy body. It hurts.

in the rain, in the sun, at an undisclosed location. (Okay, it’s our cabin at Riding Mtn National Park.) See you in September.

The artist Banksy made this image. I think this is what Jesus is saying about money and possessions: This image is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. Please see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en-us

Got this from one of my brothers, about Karl Barth, 20th C Christian, and dapper dresser/pipe-smoke): Karl Barth understood the church as an empty, hollow space, a place that is opened so that God may come. The church is, in … Continue reading →

Wow. Did a wedding on Saturday – way to go, J&L! – and it was hot, hot, hot. Lost 900 lbs in sweat. I learned something at that wedding: when people come to the church – and there were 200 … Continue reading →

It’s a Manitoba summer, and the rain threatens, the heat heats, and the construction on Inkster Boulevard happens this weekend. The train crossing is being replaced, July 9-12, so park across the tracks, or find another way here. Don’t get … Continue reading →

Is Jesus at the centre? If so, shouldn’t we do what he commands – go, tell, baptize. teach? What makes us so reluctant? We sin in refusing to go, tell, baptize, teach. But thanks be to God, we have a … Continue reading →

Dangerous stuff, following Jesus. He leads us out there, away and far from all we hold dear. He pries our idols out of our clutches, leaving us nothing but Himself, and isn’t that enough?

Yesterday I had lunch with a friend who related how someone who taught regularly at their Lutheran Church did not believe in the bodily resurrection of Jesus. He asked my friend, “Do you need to believe Jesus actually rose from … Continue reading →

Ahhh – nothing but quiet… Peace to you – Peter