Messages
“Through Stained Glass” is the regular email sent to congregants by our minister, the Reverend John C. Perkin.
April 2, 2025
In the context of Lord’s Supper or communion, breaking bread symbolizes more than just a shared meal: it is a shared experience of the divine presence, it is community and connection, it is remembering Jesus and it is a rededication to following his way.
March 26, 2025
As the world seems to slip deeper into darkness, or madness that leaves us feeling we are in darkness, let us continue to look to the light of God’s presence, so marvellously revealed in Jesus Christ.
March 19, 2025
We are the inheritors of that movement, called to be followers of Jesus, disciples who learn and listen and understand; more than that, we are called to be those who, like those who followed Jesus in person, took on the task of continuing his ministry in word and deed . . .
March 12, 2025
In our current age of digital communication, where tweets and social media posts are not only ways of messaging friends but also communicating shifts in international relations, we seem to be losing the art not only of conversation, but of small talk . . .
March 5, 2025
Today is Ash Wednesday, and in the lectionary-appointed readings one text is constant and appears every year: Joel 2:1-2, 12-17. It is an appropriate text for today in Canada . . .
February 5, 2025
There is so much I want to say this week, and a single pastoral e-pistle does not seem sufficient for me to respond to the disorder and anxiety of the world . . .
January 29, 2025
When I first arrived in Ottawa to take on the work of ministry at First Baptist, the nation was just emerging from the first wave of the COVID pandemic . . .