10/08/2026
Thanksgiving SUNDAY – October 11th 2026
Join us in person and online at 10am for our Sunday service (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwi1dOz7vlI).
Pastor Lea continues our year long look at Life to the Full. This week focuses on A Body at Rest: How do we sustain it? The body that cannot rest cannot serve. Philippians 4 is Paul's great passage on peace: rejoice always, the Lord is near, do not be anxious, think on whatever is true and honourable and just and pure and lovely. This is not naïve optimism from a comfortable life. This is a man in chains who has learned the secret of contentment. Thanksgiving Sunday in Canada makes this the natural week to practice gratitude as a spiritual discipline rather than a cultural obligation. The wedding banquet parable sits behind it, the invitation goes out broadly, the feast is ready, but many are too busy to come. Rest is not laziness. It is the practice of accepting the invitation, showing up at the table, trusting that the feast has been prepared and you don't have to cater it yourself.