Hi All,

Rumour has it that I am no slouch in the preaching department.

All the same. I recognize a great sermon when I see one.

Below, I have copied a sermon written by John Chrysostom for Easter Sunday. Since I uncovered this nugget several years ago I have quit writing Easter Sunday Sermons. This is, in my opinion, the finest sermon this season will hear read, preached or even thought.

I do edit it so that it has two responsive sections, other than that it is read intact.

Here it is:

Hi All,

Want to see what youth can do for worship with some youth has-beens adding a little guidance?

If you are in London Conference you can check out The Swell:

Friday, April 14, 2006, 7:00 p.m. at Wesley-Knox United Church London, Ontario

They have a semi-functioning web-page at:

http://www.xcelco.on.ca/~theswell/

Their theme for the service is Rubric's Cube. Perhaps GUC will stuff his head into this thread and give us the skinny.

Or,

Hi All,

The following e-mail was sent out to Churches in the Oakville area. I thought I would share it with you.

My name is Katie and I am a member of the St. John's United Church Youth Group. Our next youth service is coming up on March 3rd, 2007. We are going to be focusing on:

Hi all,

This morning, surrounding the 1 Corinthians 15 passage I introduced the topic of resurrection during the children's time.

What is it I asked?

We started the back and forth.

One kid thought it sounded like being a zombie. I suggested that was reanimation rather than resurrection and we went off on a tangent about why zombies are different.

"They have no brains!" suggested one youngster. I countered with "If they have no brains how do you stop a zombie?"

Hi All,

MadMonk said he would be interested in hearing my take on worship, which is more invitation that I really need to chip in my two cents worth. It is ummmm a bit longish.

Worship is the act of creature giving reverence to Creator. The Greek verb proskuneo which is the dominant Greek word that is translated into the English "Worship" carries this interesting definition: a dog licking his master's hand.

Hi all,

In case you missed it earlier St. John's United Church on 262 Randall Street Oakville Ontario is hosting a youth worship tomorrow night (Saturday the 25th of November) at 7:30 pm.

The following link allows you to see some of the past services:

http://www.stjohnsunited.ca/youthservice/

While it is geared to youth we are open to the young at heart.

I mean, I'm 41 and they invited me to preach.

Our theme for the evening is trust

Hi All,

Noticing that we have some who are younger than the target demographic of this particular endeavour (I'm not complaining). I thought that in the spirit of being open, welcoming and inviting. I would direct you to the following web-site:

http://www.stjohnsunited.ca/youthservice/

Not only are we hoping that you will look around and see what is going on at St. John's in Oakville we are hoping you might have the evening of Saturday, November 25th free to pop in and participate in our next "youth" service.