Learning for Life: Begins 9:30 this Sunday Read about both sessions
JOIN our Worship Service:11:00 am
Listen to the sermon: Joel Russell-MacLean
Watch the recent Worship Service
“Doing Right By God”
The Baptist of Jesus
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- Hosanna (Praise is Rising) (with lyrics)
- The Way Maker (Congregation and choir)
- We Come O Christ to You ( video, author [born in Melville, SK])
- Tell Me the Story of Jesus (video, Gaithers, meditation)
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Joel Russell-MacLean 
From Epiphany through to Easter, we will be reading and reflecting on the Gospel According to Matthew.
The words and the structure of Matthew all reinforce that Jesus in his humanity must be understood within the Jewish story.
The story of Israel is Jesus’ story.
With inspiration, skill and creativity, Matthew reminds us of the key events and people in Israel’s story. He shows how it all pointed to Jesus and how Jesus completed the work God began in them. Jesus is like Moses, Samuel, Elisha, and David. He is the prophet expected by Moses, the Priest who can approach the heavenly temple, and King David’s heir. Jesus is like Israel, chosen as God’s Son, blessed, sent into exile, and restored.
In this way, indirectly, Matthew affirms that all of history, and our own life history, matters. It is in human history and through human history that God is saving us.
Jesus is what matters most, aside from all the things we can notice and learn. Matthew wants us to know Jesus, through Jesus’ teaching, healing, suffering, death, and resurrection.