Latest Saviour's Podcast Episodes
Episode 235: Jesus is Stronger
Proclamation! - April 14, 2024 00:00 - 7 minutesProclamation! For the Third Sunday of Easter, 14 April 2024 Reverend Shelley McVea reminds us that Jesus is stronger than all earthly powers as we consider together the time when Jesus manifested among the disciples after the resurrection and asked them for something to eat. He was giv...
Episode 234: By His Wounds We Will Know Him
Proclamation! - April 07, 2024 00:00 - 16 minutesProclamation! For the First Sunday of Easter, 7 April 2024 After the crucifixion the apostles gather behind locked doors, fearing for their lives. The resurrected Jesus appears to them and greets them with “Shalom”, with peace. Jesus shares the evidence of his wounds, and by his wound...
Episode 233: Hand Me Down Love
Proclamation! - April 03, 2024 00:00 - 16 minutesProclamation! For Easter Sunday, 31 March 2024 Reverend Shelley McVea celebrates the joy of the risen Christ and recalls how our salvation and the resurrected love of Christ has been handed down to us, from generation to generation, from one believer to the next, starting with Mary Mag...
Episode 232: From Palms to Passion
Proclamation! - March 25, 2024 00:00 - 10 minutesProclamation! For Palm Sunday, 24 March 2024: Sixth Sunday in Lent From Palms to Passion Reverend Shelley leads us from the glory of Palm Sunday, celebrating the arrival of Jesus into Jerusalem, and then into the suffering of the passion during holy week, with a sermon that looks at ...
Episode 231: Wandering Towards Freedom
Proclamation! - March 10, 2024 00:00 - 16 minutesProclamation! For Sunday, 10 March 2024: Fourth Sunday in Lent Our journey through Lent continues with contemplation of the wilderness. Reverend Shelley McVea compares the Israelites’ wandering for 40 years in the desert with our own struggles against fear and sinfulness. Reverend Sh...
Episode 230: Promises and Covenants
Proclamation! - March 05, 2024 00:00 - 16 minutesProclamation! For Sunday, 03 March 2024: Second Sunday in Lent Promises and Covenants Today, Reverend Shelley McVie explores the way that we enter the promised land from the perspective of the covenants between ourselves and God: The rainbow covenant that God gave to Noah, the ten c...
Episode 229: The Heroic Journey of the Cross
Proclamation! - February 28, 2024 00:00 - 20 minutesProclamation! For Sunday, 25 January 2024: Second Sunday in Lent Today’s special guest is Bishop Kevin who offers a Lenten message for us, by reflecting on the question that Jesus asks his disciples: “Who do people say that I am?” The replied that people said that Jesus was the Messia...
Episode 228: The Gospel According to Noah
Proclamation! - February 18, 2024 00:00 - 14 minutesProclamation! For Sunday, 18 January 2024: First Sunday in Lent Reverend Shelley McVea begins the season of Lent with a reminder that Lent is a time for self-examination and reflection, as we try to find out who we really are. Shelley ties this to the biblical story of Noah, and the c...
Episode 226: Gifts of the Magi
Proclamation! - January 07, 2024 00:00 - 16 minutesProclamation! For Sunday, 07 January 2024: Epiphany The Gifts of the Magi Heavenly light is given to Israel in the form of a new born child, and on the Epiphany the seekers of Christ come from afar, following a star and bearing gifts fit for a king, for a priest and for a saviour. **...
Episode 227: A Long, Long Journey
Proclamation! - January 07, 2024 00:00 - 13 minutesProclamation! For Sunday, 31 December 2023: Low Sunday With baby Jesus in their arms, Mary and Joseph make the long, long journey to Jerusalem. Reverend Shelley McVea testifies to the power of showing up in our lives. *** St. Saviour’s Church, 43 Kimberley Avenue, Toronto, M4E 2Z...
Episode 225: As For Me and My House
Proclamation! - December 06, 2023 00:00 - 17 minutesProclamation! For Sunday, 03 December 2023, Advent 1 Even though we enjoy the pleasure of preparing for a cozy Christmas, with decorations and gift giving traditions, there is a deeper message that comes from the spirit of Advent. Reverend Shelley McVea reveals how Advent is a time of ...
Episode 224: Closer to the King
Proclamation! - November 26, 2023 00:00 - 23 minutesProclamation! For Sunday, 26 November 2023, Christ the King Reverend Shelley McVea celebrates the feast of Christ the King by showing us what an unusual king Christ is. He is the monarch who serves the weakest of his people and offers his inheritance to them. He reveals that when you ...
Episode 223: Trully, Love Your Enemy
Proclamation! - November 12, 2023 00:00 - 17 minutesProclamation! For Sunday, 12 November 2023, 24th Sunday after Pentecost Reverend Shelley McVea takes on the difficult challenge of following the commandments of God while fulfilling the spirit of the Lord, all the while acting with free will. *** St. Saviour’s Church, 43 Kimberley A...
Episode 221: We Are All Saints
Proclamation! - November 05, 2023 00:00 - 15 minutesProclamation! For Sunday, 5 November 2023, All Saints Day Reverend Shelley McVea celebrates All Saints Day by reminding us that as followers of Jesus, we too are considered saints. Not that we are always saintly in our actions, but we have the pathway ready before us, through the exam...
Episode 222: The Landowner and the Vineyard
Proclamation! - November 05, 2023 00:00 - 24 minutesProclamation! For Sunday, 8 October 2023, 18th Sunday After Pentecost Guest preacher Gillian Eley explores the parable of the landowner who leases his vineyard to tenants. At harvest time, the landowner sends his messengers to collect their portion. The tenants kill all the messengers,...
Episode 220: We Belong to the Lord
Proclamation! - September 22, 2023 00:00 - 20 minutesProclamation! For Sunday, 17 September 2023, Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost Reverend Shelley McVea finishes her summer long examination of Paul’s letter to the Romans. St Paul says, whether we live or whether we die, we belong the Lord. And how are we to do this? By welcoming th...
Episode 219: How to Disagree Discretely
Proclamation! - September 10, 2023 00:00 - 22 minutesProclamation! For Sunday, 10 September 2023, Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost Reverend Shelley McVea explains today that we are called by Jesus to celebrate, to sing with and to love each other. But what happens when we disagree? Jesus has advice for that too. Jesus recommends that w...
Episode 218: Using Worship and Music to Build Bridges of Faith
Proclamation! - August 29, 2023 00:00 - 31 minutesProclamation! For Sunday, 27 August 2023, Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost Today we are joined by a very special guest speaker, the musician, composer, and activist Ruth Fazal. Ruth works to build connections of friendship and worship between Christians and Jews in Jerusalem. In this ...
Episode 217: Crumbs Under the Table
Proclamation! - August 20, 2023 00:00 - 20 minutesProclamation! For Sunday, 20 August 2023, Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost Today our guest preacher, Reverend Sandra Seaborn, leads us through three powerful scriptures: the Old Testament moment when Joseph in Egypt reveals his true identify to his brothers; the New Testament story of...
Episode 216: Special People
Proclamation! - August 14, 2023 00:00 - 17 minutesProclamation! For Sunday, 13 August 2023, Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost Today our guest preacher, Reverend Paul Walker, addresses the reasons why we are special in the eyes of God. Looking and listening with faith, our faith is expressed in our words and deeds and is mediated by th...
Episode 215: Broken Hearts
Proclamation! - August 07, 2023 00:00 - 16 minutesProclamation! For Sunday, 6 August 2023, Tenth Sunday after Pentecost Reverend Shelley McVea observes that almost everybody has experienced the feeling of a broken heart. St. Paul recommends that we read Romans 8 in order to find consolation in Christ. In today’s verses from Romans 9...
Episode 213: Grace Abounds
Proclamation! - July 25, 2023 00:00 - 14 minutesProclamation! For Sunday, 25 June 2023, Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Reverend Shelley McVea considers St. Paul’s phrase, “Death no longer has dominion over us.” The grace of God is necessary and it abounds in the struggle against sin. *** St. Saviour’s Church, 43 Kimberley Avenue, ...
Episode 214: All Have Sinned and Yet
Proclamation! - July 25, 2023 00:00 - 17 minutesProclamation! For Sunday, 16 July 2023, Seventh Sunday after Pentecost Reverend Shelley McVea continues her exploration of Paul’s letters to the Romans and tackles the difficult subjects of sin and condemnation. *** St. Saviour’s Church, 43 Kimberley Avenue, Toronto, M4E 2Z4 416-6...
Episode 212: Authority Vs. Power
Proclamation! - June 11, 2023 00:00 - 38 minutesAuthority Vs. Power Today’s podcast features a special guest sermon. Colin McCartney is a pastor with more than 35 years of ministry experience and is a founding member of Urban Promise Toronto and Connect City. Colin is preaching on the significance of ascension as a motif in the liv...
Episode 211: A Dwelling Place, Prepared for Us
Proclamation! - May 08, 2023 00:00 - 20 minutesProclamation! For the Fifth Sunday of Easter: Sunday, 7 May 2023 Reverend Shelley McVea considers the question that Thomas asked of Jesus, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” The answer that Jesus gives Thomas indicates that Jesus is both the journey ...
Episode 210: Walking Away from the Action
Proclamation! - April 23, 2023 00:00 - 13 minutesProclamation! For the Third Sunday of Easter: Sunday, 23 April 2023 Reverend Shelley McVea explores the happenings on the road to Emmaus. A man joins two others walking on the road, and he asks what they are talking about. They are surprised to encounter someone who hasn’t heard ab...
Episode 209: Dry Rattling Bones
Proclamation! - March 26, 2023 00:00 - 14 minutesProclamation! For the Fifth Sunday of Lent: Sunday, 26 March 2023 The Rev. Dr. Arthur Boers reminds us that it is Easter soon by not yet: we are still in Lent and have to go “through a graveyard” to get to the resurrection. Like today’s Old Testament story, we are like dry rattling ...
Episode 208: I Am The Man
Proclamation! - March 25, 2023 00:00 - 18 minutesProclamation! For the Fourth Sunday of Lent: Sunday, 19 March 2023 “I am The Man” Reverend Shelley McVea shares another miracle in lent. Jesus encounters a blind man and heals him in an unusual way: he mixes his spit with earth, mingling his godliness with the essence of the ear...
Episode 207: Living Water
Proclamation! - March 17, 2023 00:00 - 21 minutesProclamation! For the Third Sunday of Lent: Sunday, 12 March 2023 The Living Water Reverend Shelley McVea weaves an old testament and a new testament story together, to help us understand the role of water in a desert land. After fleeing Egypt the people of Israel wandered the deser...
Episode 206: For God So Loved the World
Proclamation! - March 07, 2023 00:00 - 40 secondsProclamation! For the Second Sunday of Lent: Sunday, 5 March 2023 Reverend Shelley McVea shares with us a most loved Bible verse, “For God so Loved the world” and not just part of the world but the whole world, so much that He sent his only Son to become an integral part of our world...
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