Faith Does Not Grow Overnight
“To grow in our faith and our faithful relationships, we will have questions to ask.” The Rev’d Rob Park offers prayers and a message reflecting our reading from John’s Gospel chapter 3:1-17.
Refusing Evil’s Price
“Each of Jesus’ choices in our reading reminds us that our place in the kingdom cannot be bought by any material wealth.” The Rev’d Rob Park offers prayers and a message reflecting our reading from Matthew’s Gospel chapter 4:1-11.
The Pathway Out of Our Brokenness
“God successfully reveals the path of the Good News, just as God intended, and opens up for all the path that leads us out from our earthly bondage.” The Rev’d Rob Park offers prayers and a message reflecting our reading for Transfiguration Sunday from Matthew’s Gospel chapter 17:1-9.
Singing Heartily
Our new director of Music, Ryan Van Dijk, reflects on his experience of helping lead us musically in 2022 and his hopes for 2023.
Intentions And Motivations
“The intentions and motivations of our actions are as important to our relationships as the the situations covered by the Old Testament laws.” The Rev’d Rob Park offers prayers and a message reflecting our reading for this Sunday from Matthew’s Gospel chapter 5:21-37.
Salt And Light
“Both images are transformative in their power to reveal what is hidden and to open Christ’s path to true joy that is found in the Gospel’s truth.” The Rev’d Rob Park offers prayers and a message reflecting our reading for this Sunday from Matthew’s Gospel chapter 5:13-20.
Love Connects Us
The Rev’d Rob Park reflects on the past year of ministry and parish life at St. Mark’s while also looking ahead to 2023.
“Come And See”
“For us as Christian’s, Jesus holds the combination that promises to unlock the path to that place of deepest and truest satisfaction in our lives.” The Rev’d Rob Park offers prayers and a message reflecting our reading for this Sunday from John’s Gospel chapter 1:29-42.
“By Another Road”
“In the story we read today, the wisemen following the star embodies God’s announcement to our world of a new, hope-filled path.” The Rev’d Rob Park offers prayers and a message reflecting our Epiphany reading from Matthew chapter 2:1-12.
Redeemed by Love
“God doesn’t want us to be ordered by rules that are not founded in the relationships of love.” The Rev’d Rob Park offers prayers and a message reflecting our Epistle reading for The Naming Of Jesus, from Galatians chapter 4:4-7.
Peace On Earth
“War, and the horrific things that human beings do to each other in war are the terrible fulfilment of that human brokenness that sets us against each other are the exact opposite of the peace God intends for us in Jesus Christ.” For Christmas, The Rev’d Rob Park offers prayers and a message reflecting our reading of Jesus’ birth from Luke’s Gospel, chapter 2:1-20.
Trust In God’s Promise
“The writer of Matthew’s gospel shows how important it is to the story of Jesus to realize just how long God’s plan was in the making, and through what incredible and messy situations in the lives of people that God was working in, to fulfill the God’s promises.” For this Fourth Sunday of Advent, The Rev’d Rob Park offers prayers and a message reflecting our reading from Matthew’s Gospel, chapter 1:18-25.
God Is With Us
The Christmas letter to the parish from The Rev’d Rob Park reminds us that “God Is With Us” through the challenges of Christmas.
Bishop Strongly Recommends Masks at Church
The parishes of our diocese all received a letter from the Bishop to address and reinforce our measures in place to address the growing concern for both COVID-19 infections and also some of the other transmittable illness that are impacting our communities, including strongly recommending mask wearing indoors.
Reconnecting – New Starts
“even as we continue the process of reconnecting, in many ways our ministry together has the feeling of a “new start.”
Named, Not Ignored
“If we choose to serve God in our life then every person has a name, like Lazarus, no matter their place in the earthly order of wealth and status.” The Rev’d Rob Park offers prayers and a message reflecting today’s reading from Luke’s Gospel chapter 16:19-31.
Being Found
“Jesus would speak with anyone, no matter what their place in our earthly systems, and offer them the chance to be restored back into right relationship with God and with the community.”
The Rev’d Canon Rob Park offers special prayers at the passing of Her Late Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II along with our weekly prayers and a message reflecting today’s reading from Luke’s Gospel chapter 15:1-10.