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Scripture Passage Exodus 1:8-2:10 Worship Video Sermon Audio   Choir Anthem Special Presentation: Vision United Summer Camp   Sermon E-book Our interns have prepared an E-book version of this sermon. Enjoy! Click to Read the Sermon E-Book!   The post God Works Through Cracks appeared first on St Timothy Presbyterian Church.

Scripture Passage Genesis 45:1-15 Worship Video Sermon Audio   Choir Anthem Sermon E-Book Our interns have prepared an E-book version of this sermon. Enjoy! Click to Read the Sermon E-Book! The post God Behind Our Stories appeared first on St Timothy Presbyterian Church.

Scripture Passage Matthew 14:22-33 Worship Video Sermon Audio   Choir Anthem Sermon E-Book Our interns have prepared an E-book version of this sermon. Enjoy! Click to Read the Sermon E-Book! Congregational Prayer Click to Read This Week’s Congregational Prayer! Graduation Videos This week, we celebrated the graduation of the students moving from Kids’ Church into Hi-C and from Hi-C into College. We also celebrated the graduation of students at St. Andrews Humber Heights. The Hi-C graduates created a video of their reflections on how they feel moving on into their next stage in life and what the St. Tim’s community has meant to them.  Several other students in Hi-C put together a farewell video for the graduates. 2020 Hi-C Graduate Reflections 2020 Hi-C Graduation Tribute The post The Hand That Saves appeared first on St Timothy Presbyterian Church.

Scripture Passage Genesis 32:22-31 Worship Video Sermon Audio   Choir Anthem Sermon E-Book Our interns have prepared an E-book version of this sermon. Enjoy! Click to Read the Sermon E-Book! Congregational Prayer Click to Read This Week’s Congregational Prayer! The post Finding Our Blessing appeared first on St Timothy Presbyterian Church.

Scripture Passage Matthew 13:44-46 Worship Video Sermon Audio   Choir Anthem Sermon E-Book Our interns have prepared an E-book version of this sermon. Enjoy! Click to Read the Sermon E-Book! Congregational Prayer Click Here to Read this Week’s Congregational Prayer! The post Finding Hidden Treasure appeared first on St Timothy Presbyterian Church.

    Last Friday was the third session of the Becoming Together: Toward the Beloved Community study led by Rev. Simon Park. This week, we read and reflected on Galatians 3:1-5:1. In this passage, we saw how normativities in our lives affect what we view as desirable. For the Galatians, the issue was this: they had found freedom from the norms of Roman normativity, and all the negative connotations and mental and spiritual enslavement that entailed. Now, however, they had reverted to a new enslavement, this time under Jewish norms. Like the Galatians, we are enslaved to norms. Our norms have been shaped by white normativity overtime, and have led to an unconscious bias against what is black. Through this study, we learned that Christ is the new normativity that decentralizes everything else. We are all equal in God's eyes. Your worth is affirmed in the love of God shown through Christ. We reflected on how having Christ in our lives can change the way we think and discussed how we can stand with Black people w

Scripture Passage Matthew 13:24-30 Worship Video Sermon Audio   Choir Anthem Sermon E-Book Our interns have prepared an E-book version of this sermon. Enjoy! Click to Read the Sermon E-Book! Congregational Prayer Click Here to Read This Sunday’s Congregational Prayer! The post Let Them Be appeared first on St Timothy Presbyterian Church.

    This past Friday marked the second of four sessions in our Becoming Together: Toward the Beloved Community study led by Rev. Simon Park. As part of our mission to seek truth through the gift of Scripture, we reflected on the important issue of racism in our society and our role as a church and community in the fight against anti-black racism. Last week we learned about the history of the Galatians, the concept of model minorities, and the white normativity that we see in today’s society. Many of our ESM congregation members shared their stories and honest reflections on issues relating to racism, freedom and identity. This week we covered Galatians 1 and 2, exploring the source of the gospel as Paul understood it. As we began to delve into the message and thoughts of St. Paul, we learned about how this revelation of the Gospel changed Paul's entire belief system, helping him find a new calling in life. We continued to look at the real-life implications of Paul's understanding of the gospel and how he bu

Scripture Reading Romans 8:1-11 Worship Video Sermon Audio   Choir Anthem Sermon E-Book Our interns have prepared an E-book version of this sermon. Enjoy! Click Here for Sermon E-Book! The post A Spiritual Person appeared first on St Timothy Presbyterian Church.

Scripture Passage Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 Worship Video Sermon Audio   Choir Anthem Sermon E-Book Our interns have prepared an E-book version of this sermon. Enjoy! Click Here for Sermon E-Book! Congregational Prayer Click Here to Read This Week's Congregational Prayer! The post Welcoming Heart appeared first on St Timothy Presbyterian Church.

Scripture Passage Romans 6:20-23; 1 John 4:7-12 Worship Video Sermon Audio   Choir Anthem Sermon E-Book Our interns have prepared an E-book version of this sermon. Enjoy! Click Here for Sermon E-Book! The post Love Heals Hatred appeared first on St Timothy Presbyterian Church.

Scripture Passage Jeremiah 20:7-13 Worship Video Father’s Day Video from Kids Church Sermon Audio   Choir Anthem Sermon E-Book Our interns have prepared an E-book version of this sermon. Enjoy! Click Here for Sermon E-Book! Congregational Prayer Click Here to Read This Week’s Congregational Prayer! The post Dreams of the Father appeared first on St Timothy Presbyterian Church.

Scripture Passage Romans 5:1-8 Worship Video Sermon Audio Sermon E-Book Our interns have prepared an E-book version of this sermon. Enjoy! Click Here for Sermon E-Book! Congregational Prayer Click Here to Read This Week’s Congregational Prayer! The post Hope Makes Everything Beautiful appeared first on St Timothy Presbyterian Church.

Scripture Passage Psalm 8 Worship Video Worship Audio   Choir Anthem Sermon E-Book Our interns have prepared an E-book version of this sermon. Enjoy! Click Here for Sermon E-Book! Sermon Text The Psalm that we read today is a beautiful Psalm. This Psalm is about this beautiful world that we live in. This Psalm reminds me of the hymn we heard today (How Great Thou Art), O Lord My God, when I’m in awesome wonder, consider all the worlds thy hands have made.   Also this song reminds me of Louis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World:  I see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom for me and you and I think to myself what a wonderful world .  This psalm says when I look at your heavens the work of your fingers. The moon and the stars that you have established (Psalm 8:3).  The Beautiful World God Created In the world God created, there are so many beautiful things: the mountains, rivers, deep forests, trees, the sun and the moon, and the beautiful stars in the sky. There are so many things that are

https://timothypc.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/May31SundayWorshipsermonaudio.mp3 Scripture Passage 1 Corinthians 12 : 3b-13 Sermon Text Human beings have an innate desire for unity. We become inspired when we see examples of sacrifice, of tireless service, and people coming together. When the pandemic first began, the motto was we're all in it together. The spirit of togetherness was so high. We were willing to endure discomfort, inconvenience and even hardship for the greater good.  But as time goes on, the forces of division creep back. At this moment, I see forces of division running stronger than the forces of unity. People are tired of staying inside, so they flock together with friends. Others trying to adhere to guidelines see that and get upset, quickly pointing fingers and caricaturizing the people. That's what happened last weekend when people flocked to Trinity Bellwoods Park. South of the border, cities are on fire. Pent up anger is spilling out into violence. Those in power focus on that vi

Scripture Passage Ephesians 1:15-23 Sermon Text Uncontrollable Thoughts Our thinking is very important, it shapes us and molds us. We are what we think, when our thinking is distorted, then we develop a distorted lifestyle. It affects our life in a significant way, if your thinking is dark, you become dark. If you constantly think about things to worry about, you can become paranoid. But the problem is that our thinking is not something that we can control. Our thinking seems to have a mind of its own. It attacks us out of nowhere, one moment you are fine, the next you are in deep fear. Our thinking is separate from our will, desire and wants, it is beyond our power and control. Then are we just victims of these random thoughts? Do we let these negative thoughts dictate us, take us where we don't want to go? Many people do that. Their lives become paralyzed by these negative thoughts. They try their best to have positive thoughts but somehow they are unable to. They live with anger, fear, disappointment, cyni

Scripture Passage John 14:15-21 Sermon Text Importance of Connection These days I realize how important it is to meet people physically. I appreciate the actual social connection, not a virtual connection, more than ever. Today we had a glitching problem with Zoom. In the news, we hear that everyone’s having problems with Zoom. Yet, in this situation, we worship God. I can see you all on the screen, yet I miss meeting you all physically. For ESM, in terms of activities, we haven't changed much. We do all the Bible studies and worship services through Zoom, but it is not the same. Our conversation becomes choppy, and it is hard to get deeper in our reflection. It is all right to communicate information virtually but it is hard to be connected spiritually and enter into deeper understanding. I have realized that we human beings survive and thrive in relationship. To us, relationships are so important. No one is an island. Living in Relationship with One Another When God created the world, he repeated this phr

Scripture Passage 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 Sermon Text Selflessness and Resilience When I think of mother's love, two words come to mind. They are selfless and resilient. For me, these two words capture the essence of today's passage, and what mother's love is. First, it is selfless in a sense that a mother's love is totally (and entirely) for their child – it's a one-way kind of love. They don't ask anything of us; they simply love us. We're the most precious thing in their eyes. It's not the kind of love that's negotiable or calculating. It doesn't depend on what we can do for them. But it is all about us; and as St. Paul said, “it doesn't insist on its own way.” They will do anything for us because we are theirs. There is a KSM YP group that meets on Wednesday evenings. All of the different groups in the church have been going through the Gospel of Mark. One week, our conversation digressed at one point. We started talking about relationships between parents and children, which really had nothing to do with

Scripture Passage Psalm 23     Sermon Text As life is getting more difficult, more thankful we should be, because gratitude is the best weapon to fight against anxiety. Last week, we reflected that when life is difficult, consider, stop, and think. Yes, it is important to stop and think when life is difficult. But I want you to do one more thing. When life is difficult, that is, be thankful. When life is difficult, be thankful. It sounds funny, but trust me, it will do a lot of good to you. Practice your gratitude. When life is difficult, naturally and automatically, our heart looks for reasons to complain. We stand in front of two roads. One leads to complaint, and the other leads to gratitude. The road that leads to complaint will take us to a darker place, a place where death is. But the road that leads to gratitude will take us to a brighter place where there is life. Instead of taking the road to complaints, we should take the road to gratitude. You know, when everything goes well, people are thankful,

Features: “Your Love oh Lord” by Third Day Readings from and reflections on 1 Corinthians 13 “Goodness of God” by Bethel May these songs and meditations be a blessing to you and help you carry on. We are gifted by the grace of God’s love. May it be your strength and hope! The post Love appeared first on St Timothy Presbyterian Church.