Synopsis
This podcast is brought to you by the people of God at Knox United Church in Lanigan and Nokomis United Church in Nokomis. We are disciples of Jesus Christ who seek to live out our faith in our local communities and our everyday lives. Our weekly sermons share how we wrestle with the Bible in our time as the Holy Spirit guides our life and work.Knox United in Lanigan gathers at 9:30am on Hoover Street, and Nokomis United gathers in Nokomis at 11:15am on 3rd and King.
Episodes
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Bonus: Saskatoon Pride 2019
24/06/2019 Duration: 09minYou can read Psalm 4 here. Learn more about Saskatoon Pride.
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Growing people in Christ who bear fruit in the world
21/05/2019 Duration: 18minGod is calling us to grow people in Christ who bear fruit in the world. Our mission plan for our future - titled A Time to Plant - outlines the ways that we will grow and change as a church. Through the Holy Spirit, we will gather, worship, learn, help, and share as we grow together in faith and make a noticeable impact on our communities and the world to the glory of God. We will grow people in Christ who bear fruit in the world. The sermon was delivered by our minister, Mitchell Anderson. The teaching texts were Amos 9:11-15, Colossians 1:3-6,9-10, and Mark 4:3-8
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Christ in you, the hope of glory
07/05/2019 Duration: 15minWe dream of being a family in Christ, where people of all kinds can grow in Christ and bear fruit in the world. We want to be welcoming for everyone, in all of the rich diversity that God has created. This Affirming Sunday we ask ourselves what it means to be welcoming to people of all sexual orientations and gender identities. The sermon was delivered by Mitchell Anderson. The teaching text was Colossians 1:15-29 A book referenced in the sermon is from the Wisdom Commentary Series, a series of feminist biblical scholarship. The book on Colossians can be found here. The sermon also referenced a song by Thrice, Image of the Invisible, which you can listen to here: Image of the Invisible by Thrice
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Resurrection of the Lord
07/05/2019 Duration: 12minChrist is risen! Sorrow may endure for the night, but joy comes with the dawn. We celebrate the resurrection of the Lord each year, telling the story again of how Jesus Christ in his resurrection is making all things new. Our sermon was delivered by Mitchell Anderson and the Scripture readings were Isaiah 65:17-25, First Corinthians 15:19-26 and Luke 24:1-12
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Fruit of the Spirit: Gentleness
17/04/2019 Duration: 11minGod calls us to bear the fruit of gentleness, and this Palm Sunday Jesus teaches us how to be gentle, both in his teachings and his triumphant protest march into Jerusalem. Our sermon was delivered by our student minister Mitchell Anderson. Our teaching texts are Matthew 5:1-12 and Luke 19:28-40
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The Fruit of the Spirit: Faithfulness
11/04/2019 Duration: 11minGod calls us to be faithful servants, using the gifts that God has given us for the sake of the world. As a servant people we model our lives on Jesus Christ, who shows his faithfulness to God's love and justice by dying for the world on the Cross. What does it mean to be like Jesus and bear the fruit of faithfulness in our time? The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Our sermon this week is offered by our student minister Mitchell Anderson, and our teaching text is Matthew 25:14-28
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The Fruit of the Spirit: Kindness and Goodness
11/04/2019 Duration: 10minThe fourth in our series for Lent on the fruit of the Spirit, we explore the kindness and goodness of God who creates all things and declares them to be good, and ask ourselves what it means to bear the fruit of kindness and goodness in our lives, just like God our Creator is kind and good. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. God is good and made all things to be good, and in God's kindness God joins us as Jesus, the Word made flesh, God's own self become part of the creation. Our sermon is offered by our student minister Mitchell Anderson. Our teaching text is Genesis 1.
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The Fruit of the Spirit: Patience
11/04/2019 Duration: 14minThe third in our series for Lent on the fruit of the Spirit, we explore what it means to be a patient people as each day we wait for Jesus to come again into our lives and our world. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. As we consider what it means to be patient, we reflect on big questions: what happens to us when we die? What happens to our world at the end of time? What does it mean to wait with hope while embracing the present? Our sermon is offered by our student minister Mitchell Anderson. Our teaching texts are First Thessalonians 4:13-18, Second Peter 3:8-13, and Revelation 21:1-7.
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The Fruit of the Spirit: Joy and Peace
11/04/2019 Duration: 12minThe second in our series for Lent on the fruit of the spirit, we explore what it means to be bear the fruit of joy and peace in our time. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. We explore how the joy and the peace that come with following Jesus are very different than the joy and the peace that the world tries to sell us. Our sermon is offered by our student minister Mitchell Anderson. Our teaching text is John 16:16-33
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The Fruit of the Spirit: Love
11/04/2019 Duration: 12minThe first in our series for Lent on the fruit of the Spirit, we explore what it means to bear the fruit of love in our time. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. We explore what these mean together. Our sermon was delivered by our student minister Mitchell Anderson. Our teaching text was First Corinthians 13.
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A Good Work: We Share
11/04/2019 Duration: 11minThe final sermon in our series on our purpose as a church, this week we explore how we share, using our time and resources for the work of the church and the mission of God in the world. Our sermon was delivered by Jeanette Warrian, licensed lay worship leader in Living Skies Region of the United Church of Canada.
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A Good Work: We Help
11/04/2019 Duration: 09minThe fourth in our series on our purpose as a community of faith, this week we explore how as disciples of Jesus Christ we help by caring for one another and seeking justice. The sermon was delivered by our student minister Mitchell Anderson and our scripture lesson was Philippians 1:3-11
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A Good Work: We Learn
19/02/2019 Duration: 07minThe third in our five part series on the work that God has given us as a church, we reflect on what it means to learn as disciples of Jesus Christ. Jesus calls his followers disciples because we are all students of the way of Jesus, learning together how to live with compassion, love, gentleness, and justice in our time. Our sermon was delivered by our student minister, Mitchell Anderson. The teaching text was Matthew 7:24-29.
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A Good Work: We Worship
13/02/2019 Duration: 14minThe second in our five part series on the work that God has given us as a church, we reflect on what it means to worship as disciples of Jesus Christ. In worship we are transformed, given a new imagination for the beauty of the world and God's action in the world for us. As a worshipping community, we come together in acts of worship to warm our hearts that we might change the world. Our sermon was delivered by Mitchell Anderson, our student minister, and responds to Revelation 4:1-11
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A Good Work: We Gather
05/02/2019 Duration: 09minWe believe that God has gifted our church to the world as a good work (Philippians 1:6). Each week we will be exploring a different way that God has called us to serve God and the world. This week we explored the theme "we gather" as God calls us to be a family, a community, where all are welcome as we are to engage in a community seeking a more inclusive world where all are one. Our sermon was delivered by our student minister Mitchell Anderson and was based on Philippians 1:3-11 and Galatians 3:27-29
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One Body
05/02/2019 Duration: 10minAs Knox United gathered for our annual meeting, we reflected on words written to another church a long time ago, about how the church is like a body with many members, each different, each needed one another, and together working for the common good. The sermon was delivered by Mitchell Anderson, our student minister, and was based on First Corinthians 12:12-31
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Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2019
24/01/2019 Duration: 12minEach year the Church celebrates the week of prayer for Christian unity. But what does unity mean in our time? How can we pursue justice, and only justice, as we respond to Jesus' prayer that all may be one? To learn more about the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, the World Council of Churches has information here: Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
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Baptism of the Lord
18/01/2019 Duration: 16minThe Baptism of the Lord celebrates when Jesus was baptised, and reminds us of our calling as a baptised and baptising people for our hearts to be transformed by Jesus for the sake of the world. Our teaching was delivered by Mitchell Anderson. Our teaching text was Luke 3:1-22.
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Epiphany of the Lord
11/01/2019 Duration: 13minThe Epiphany of the Lord celebrates when wise people from the East came to offer Jesus gifts. They were transformed by their encounter with him, just as Jesus transforms our lives and transforms the world. The sermon was delivered by Mitchell Anderson and the Scripture readings are Isaiah 60:1-6 and Matthew 2:1-12
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The Birth of the Lord
02/01/2019 Duration: 13minMerry Christmas! Each we celebrate the mystery of the Incarnation, how God walks with us as Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh who reconciles and makes new. The sermon was delivered by Mitchell Anderson, our student minister, and was based on Isaiah 9:2-7, Philippians 2:1-11, and Luke 2:1-14.