Deo Lutheran Church
September and October 
November 2011
November 6, 2011
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A special presentation today by one of our members who tells her family's story about coming as refugees to Canada after WWII.
November 13, 2011
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For the past 6 weeks, members at Deo had been working on various entrepreneurial projects, funded by micro-loans that they received from an earlier church fundraiser. Today, these people returned the proceeds of their work. Today's message is based on the Bible passage that inspired this project - Matthew 25:14-30.
November 20, 2011
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Today's focus text was Matthew 25:31-46, a picture of the final judgement in which people are divided into two groups -- sheep, who inherit God's kingdom, and goats, who receive condemnation. Today's intergenerational sermon begins with a playfully unjust pastor applying skewed criteria to sort members of the congregation into these categories, and a reflection on how God's justice does not fail the way human justice usually does.
November 27, 2011
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The season of Advent began today, and today's sermon looks at the psychological distance between the church's understanding of Advent, and the ever-more-intense run-up to Christmas that this time has become in the culture in which we live.
December 2011
December 4, 2011
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Today's message, taking cues from this demonstration, speaks of the importance of attending to the right things as we watch for God at work in the world.
December 11, 2011
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Our children's time today began with this amazing demonstration as a way of thinking about hope, restoration, and its close companion - Joy.
December 18, 2011
Our Sunday School had their Christmas pageant today, on the subject of "Messengers". It featured "classic" bathrobe shepherds and tinsel-halo angels, 3 year olds speaking incoherently into microphones (a fan favourite) a cellphone ringing out the hallelujah chorus, and the congregation recording this Christmas video greeting.
December 24, 2011 - Christmas Eve
Tonight's Christmas message was not recorded, mainly because the tiny MP3 recorder we use was missing. Instead, please read the text of the sermon here