Second year of Quebec-XCC: September 15-18, 2022
If you think you can not – you need to come! If you think you do not need it – You are in great need! Are you up for the challenge?
Inaugural year of Quebec-XCC: October 28-31, 2021
It was an amazing 72 hours!
The Good Samaritan and the Physician’s Oath
A message delivered to a Christian fellowship of physicians, 6 March 2021, online platform. Based on Luke 10:25-37 Familiarity proceeds from experience. Familiarity is an important component of our bedrock of knowledge that gives us courage and allows us to move forward into unknown territory. You know this: as physicians you each have a vast…
Beyond Common Sense
Sermon delivered on 09 August 2015 at the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul, 3415 Redpath St., Montreal. Based on John 6:35, 41-51 A metaphor: a figure of speech, where one thing is said to be another, even if the first is conceptually unrelated to the second. For example “A mighty fortress is our…
Through the Shadow
Sermon delivered on 31 January 2016 at Briarwood Presbyterian Church, 70 Beaconsfield Boulevard, Beaconsfield Quebec. Based on Isaiah 43:1-7, Psalm 23, Romans 8:31-39 It is probably almost always true that the most difficult moments in our lives shape us the most. It is probably true that who we become depends to a great extent on…
Crossing the Bar – with apologies to Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sermon delivered on 16 August 2015 at the Kensington Presbyterian Church, 6225 Godfrey Avenue, Montreal. Based on John 6:16-21 The Victorian age – the 19th century. In the Victorian era people delighted themselves in natural history – the sciences – and in the arts, as we do today. But the Victorian era is special I…
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