Worship

Notes on the Notes – August 27, 2017

This week’s theme: Truth and Power This week’s music: “Teach Me, God, to Wonder”(VU #299) “Teach me, God, to wonder, teach me, God, to see; Let your world of beauty capture me. Let me, God, be open, let me loving be; Let your world of people speak to me. Let me, God, be ready, let […]

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Notes on the Notes – August 20, 2017

This week’s music: “O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing” (VU #326) “O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer’s praise, The glories of my God and King, the triumphs of God’s grace. Jesus! the name that charms our fears, that bids our sorrows cease; ‘Tis music in the sinner’s ears, ’tis life […]

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Notes on the Notes – August 6, 2017

This week’s theme: What is enough? This Week’s Scripture Readings: Isaiah 55:1-5 – come to the waters all those who are thirsty Matthew 14-13:21 – Loaves and fishes This Week’s Music: “Come, Just as You Are” “Come just as you are, Hear the Spirit call. Call just as you are – Come and see, come, […]

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It is done!

I sit here for the last time in a residence room as a student in the summer distance program at the Atlantic School of Theology. It is almost a surreal experience. I can hear the voices of other students laughing down the hallway as they share a meal together, as we do every weekday morning. […]

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Transitions and Endings

It is the last Sunday for me on campus as a Summer Distance student at the Atlantic School of Theology. I must explain my absence for the past 2 weeks. I have been made aware of all that has happened since I have been away and the losses of so many. I wanted to leave […]

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It is all Greek to me!

Well it is the first day of the second class of the summer term. You would think that I would have learned after last year and trying to learn Biblical Hebrew in two weeks. But no, I have to take Biblical Greek in the same amount of time. Well to be honest I have not […]

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Canada Day, Canada’s 150

It is Canada day and here is sit in residence at the Atlantic School of Theology listening to the fog horns going off every couple of minutes. We were supposed to be out sailing today, but the weather was not really conducive to being on the water today as we have had a lot of […]

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25/30 or Two Weeks Down

To be honest when I wrote last week I found myself in the midst of a week that seemed to be dragging on so slowly. Well here we are at the end of the next week, at the end of my first course and two weeks closer to coming home. It is amazing how time […]

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Notes on the Notes – June 25, 2017

This week’s theme: Growing Up This week’s scripture readings: Jeremiah 20: 7-13     Romans 6: 1b-11     Matthew 10: 24-31 This week’s music: “Walk With Me” (VU #649) “Walk with me, I will walk with you and build the land that God has planned where love shines through. When Moses heard the call of God he […]

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Continuing to Ask “What?”

Have you ever had one of those experiences when you are engaging with something, either another person, a course, or a situation, and you you find that you are continuing to ask yourself the question ‘what?’ This is where I find myself at the end of the first week of studies here at school. There […]

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Accolades and Reflection

This first week has been a very interesting time here at the Atlantic School of Theology. We have welcomed new students, one from Newfoundland, and two from Southern Ontario. What we have come to realize is that this program has become, not just an educational program for the Maritimes,  but a program for Canada, as […]

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Notes on the Notes – June 18, 2017

This week’s Theme:    Finish Strong This week’s scripture readings: Genesis 18:1-15      Romans 5:1-8     Matthew 9:35-10:8 This week’s music: “Come and Find the Quiet Centre” (VU #374) “Come and find the quiet centre in the crowded life we lead, Find the room for hope to enter, find the frame where we are freed: Clear the chaos […]

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It Begins

I arrived in Halifax late yesterday afternoon to clouds and a bit of rain. This will be a short post today as I preparing to leave residence for my final weekend formation retreat which will be taking place at Mt. Allison in Sackville, New Brunswick. It seems a bit strange to come this far east […]

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