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Teach Us to Pray Ascension Sunday Pastor Mitch Coggin May 12, 2024 Easter Today is Ascension Sunday. Jesus was preparing his disciples for his ascent back into heaven following his resurrection. Over these weeks following Easter and leading toward Pentecost next Sunday, we’ve been looking at the Gospel of John, the Epistle of first John,… Continue reading Teach Us to Pray

SA Choral Scholar Concert SA Music Outreach Program Join us on Sunday, June 30 at noon, on a magnificent event, featuring St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church’s choral scholars: Eva Smith, Darby Howard, Lauren Steinmann and Noah Mellemstrand. Donations are appreciated! SA Choral Scholar Concert Sunday, June 30, 2024 12:15pm 924 Douglas St, Victoria, BC

The Church: Learning Who Belongs Easter 6B Pastor Mitch Coggin May 5, 2024 Easter “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. I am giving you these commandments so that you love one another. Love one another as I have loved you. I have said these things to you so that my… Continue reading The Church: Learning Who Belongs

Beyond Safe Territory Easter Pastor Mitch Coggin April 28, 2024 Easter 5B During the Sunday’s following Easter, we’ve been reading from Acts of the Apostles to understand more about our role as the Church. The word translated in our English Bible as “church” comes from the Greek word, ekklesia. The word means “the called out… Continue reading Beyond Safe Territory

What a difference it makes to be filled with the Holy Spirit! Easter 4B Pastor Mitch Coggin April 21, 2024 Easter Today’s first two scripture readings deal first of all with the assurance that Jesus is the Good shepherd and that he lays his life down for us, referring to us as his sheep. We… Continue reading What a difference it makes to be filled with the Holy Spirit!

The Elephant in the Room Easter 3B Pastor Mitch Coggin April 14, 2024 Easter Some things are easy to ignore… especially when they are uncomfortable. We may ignore a phone call or avoid an appointment if we aren’t sure what the outcome might be. We often ignore someone that might not look or act like… Continue reading The Elephant in the Room

The Church, United We Stand Easter 2B Pastor Mitch Coggin April 7, 2024 Easter The scriptures we read after Easter reflect the shift from the active ministry of Jesus and the disciples to the ministry of the disciples and the faith community that would become the early church. I want us to explore what the… Continue reading The Church, United We Stand

Good Friday Worship Holy Week Rev. Laura Kavanagh March 29, 2024 Holy Week Prologue So this is love! Brought to this: stretched on a crossbar. It would make a grown person cry, if there were any tears left. Brought to this, because you believed too much in what love could do, because you stood alone… Continue reading Good Friday

Terror or Trust: the focus is up to you! Palm Sunday Pastor Mitch Coggin March, 24 2024 Holy Week Palm or Passion Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week. There are two separate readings in today’s lectionary; one for the liturgy of the Palms and one for the Liturgy of the Passion. Palm Sunday is… Continue reading Terror or Trust: the focus is up to you!

An Inconvenient Obedience 5th Sunday of Lent Pastor Mitch Coggin March 17, 2024 Lent One of my favorite folk singers, Carrie Newcomer, has a song that seems to call our attention to what is going on around us right now, both the promise of Spring and the message of Easter. The chorus goes like this:… Continue reading An Inconvenient Obedience