by revnick | May 30, 2013 | Reflections
After spending the weekend with Youth Forum as their chaplain last weekend, I’ve been reflecting a lot about worship. Worship has evolved over the eons. Passive, active, interactive, contemplative, silent, musical, it’s an ever evolving movement for the...
by revnick | May 27, 2013 | Reflections
This weekend was the Annual Meeting of Maritime Conference of the United Church of Canada. On the floor of the conference lots of business work was done. Some motions were made. Some debating was done. And so on and so on. But I missed almost all of it. I was with...
by revnick | May 21, 2013 | Reflections, Uncategorized
This weekend we were richly blessed in my town. We were blessed by the presence of children, children who have very different lives than we have. On Sunday morning people from about 6 different churches came together to worship on Pentecost Sunday. Why? Because we had...
by revnick | May 13, 2013 | Reflections
“Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight turns you into who you are tomorrow, and the day after that....
by revnick | May 7, 2013 | Reflections, Words to the Church
The church is going through significant change, at least in the mainline denominations. Whether they like it or not. Today, in the United Church of Canada we’ve heard that 28 people will be notified they will be without work in our national office. 14 through...