On Sunday November 7, 2021, we will host a combined-language worship service at 10:30 am in remembrance of members of our church who served both World Wars, and to pray for peace as we go through post-pandemic turbulence. All are welcome. 本堂將於2021年11月7日上午10:30舉行聯合語言崇拜，紀念本堂曾在大戰中服役的教友，並在新冠疫後為世界和平祈禱。敬請各位參加。

J.I. Packer – beloved brother in the faith, steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord his labour was not in vain. Live-stream Celebration of Life Service at 11am July 23, 2020. Link here. On July 17 the world lost one of our giants of the faith. J.I. Packer died in Vancouver, with his wife by his side and his vicar reading Scripture as his prepared with joyful anticipation to stand face-to-face before Jesus. He is alive and at pe

Our plan is simple: to praise, pursue and proclaim Jesus as Lord, while stuck at home. Read about how here:

Have Your Cake and Eat it Too Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is not a cookbook. Granted, food is mentioned in it. The pages recount Harry’s experience with delicious brews of Butterbeer and the unexpected flavours of Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans. But Harry Potter is not a cookbook. If you read it hoping to find the recipes for these delicacies you will be disappointed. It was not written to be a cookbook. It was written to tell a story. It would be ridiculous t

You matter to God. Today half-a-million people – the same number as there are residents of Vancouver – will descend upon downtown for a party and spectacle on a size and scale unlike anything else. The Prime Minister is here. Downtown Roads will be closed for three straight days. Rallies. Parades. World-class firework shows. Joy. Love. Pride. This weekend marks the celebration of the LGBT2Q+ communities, of progressive sexual acceptance and tolerance, and of the inclusion of

Good Friday is about Good News.

Children are gifts to families and the Church. Jesus loves and welcomes children, teaching His followers, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.” (Luke 18:16b-17) With this understanding, there has been a movement in the Anglican Church globally of welcoming baptized children, regardless of age, to fully participate in Holy C

Every premise of the Santa story is ridiculous, and any detective can quickly gather the facts and conclude the whole thing is a hoax. Worse

Today we remember. Remembrance is about memory: it is about looking back and considering with gratitude the sacrifice of so many who gave so much, so you and I may live today in a nation of peace, of multi-culturalism and immigration, of acceptance and goodwill. But remembrance isn’t just about memory: the opposite of remembrance is not forgetfulness. The opposite of “remember” is “dis-member”; “cut-off”; “amputate”. So on Remembrance Day we re-member – we re-connect with our

The Shock and Sting of Death A prominent American pastor – Eugene Peterson, died today. He was 85, and suffering from dementia and heart failure in hospice care. It was not a surprise, and yet death it seems is always a shock. Death intrudes uninvited into our lives. Death rudely interrupts our life – even when we expect it. Death shocks us. It silences our joy and hope. It leaves those of us left behind numb. Even though it is as natural as birth, it feels unnatural – a dis

By the time you read this the celebrated scientist David Goodall chose to end his life through physician-assisted suicide. “I am not happy, I want to die.” he told reporters. Goodall deemed his life worthless– more a burden to him than a blessing. Is he wrong? -- I am anti-death. I hate death. It is an unnatural interruption that destroys the fullness of life God intended for us all when He created us. I want to live life fighting for life; helping people experience life to t

Life is Sacred. Life, human life, is the most valuable thing on Earth. In the wake of the Humboldt Broncos tragedy last month, the importance of hockey (which is highly valued in this country) was instantly eclipsed by the immeasurably greater value of human life. As a nation we wept for the families who lost sons and a daughter way before their time, for the children whose fathers would never come home and for the wives turned to widows in a moment. None of us cared one bit

Make way! Here comes the fun-police. 4/20 is upon us. The day when you either avoid downtown like the plague or flock there to get lost and lit in the annual fog collectively puffed by thousands. Christians are not fans of 4/20. We are generally not big on narcotics. A real pin I actually saw at a Christian rally in my youth read, “There’s No High like the Most High”. My sister bought it for me. I wore it. Why are Christians anti-weed? Is it time for us to get lifted from our

There are lots of different religions. There are lots of opinions about God. Most everyone believes in some form of afterlife. So how do we know which one is right? Or are we all wrong one way or another? How do we know what is true? Christianity is different from every other faith, worldview and belief-system. Because Christianity, centrally, is based upon a historic, verifiable event to prove its validity. All other belief systems demand blind, unquestioning faith. Christia

There is a lie, propagated in culture, that sex is just sex. Like just going to a movie, or a jog, we can enjoy sexual experience and then just move on unaffected; unaffecting. We see this all the time. Think of every major TV show of the last generation: Friends, Sex in the City, House of Cards, Game of Thrones, even my beloved Seinfeld is implicated in the lie. Consenting people hook up, enjoy themselves, and then move on. No attachment. No STI’s. No pregnancy. No pain. No

DECLINE It is Resolution Season. Over the next few days we strive to improve ourselves: improve our waistline, our lifestyle, our bank balance, our happiness. And yet, we ignore the simple reality that we are not improving; we are declining. We are not ascending up to the peak of our lives, rather all of us are moving one step closer to the grave. “What is time but the inevitable, perennial march towards our own mortality” says of all people Jerry Seinfeld. A new year remind

On October 15, God-willing, Melissa and I plan to have our new daughter Julia baptized at our church. She will be one month old, and I am fairly certain neither a full immersion nor a personal profession of faith by her will be a part of the ceremony! This upsets many Christians – and confuses many friends of mine – so I thought I would give a brief explanation, as a father and an Anglican pastor, to try to walk you through why over 80% of Christians globally (and almost all

There are two roads immediately adjacent to the building where our church gathers. The first is called Main Street, bustling with bearded, tattooed, plaided millennials and people who wish they were, artisanal coffee on every corner, a nexus where poverty and a $5 cup-of-coffee go seemlessly hand-in-hand (or so it seems). The other street runs parallel, and is a different world: Sophia Street. Small, quaint, quiet. Sophia, from the Greek word which means wisdom. People who wa