Latest Saviour's Podcast Episodes
Episode 180: God's Ambassadors
Proclamation! - March 27, 2022 00:00 - 17 minutesGod’s Ambassadors Proclamation! For the Fourth Sunday in Lent, Sunday, 27 March 2022 Jesus hears grumblings among his followers, who are complaining about the presence of some others that they don’t like or approve of. Reverend Shelley McVea shows us how the parable of the prodigal s...
Episode 179: Second Chances
Proclamation! - March 20, 2022 00:00 - 15 minutesThe Hard Promise that Leads to Second Chances Proclamation! For the Third Sunday in Lent, Sunday, 20 March 2022 The season of Lent continues as Reverend Shelley McVea shares with us the hard promise of forgiveness, the transforming path that leads to second chances. Like the fig tree ...
Episode 178: Jerusalem, Jerusalem!
Proclamation! - March 13, 2022 00:00 - 14 minutesProclamation! For the Second Sunday in Lent, Sunday, 13 March 2022 For the second Sunday in Lent, Reverend Shelley McVea shares with us the story of Jesus, the rejected prophet. When he is told that Herod is looking for Jesus so that he can kill him, Jesus responds, “You tell that ...
Episode 177: I Love Lent: Abundance
Proclamation! - March 06, 2022 00:00 - 14 minutesProclamation! For the First Sunday in Lent, Sunday, 6 March 2022 Reverend Shelley McVea shares a secret: She loves Lent. Lent is the season of deprivation, as many Christians choose to give up something they love in order to be in solidarity with Jesus who went into the desert and fas...
Episode 176: Lights up on the Mountain
Proclamation! - February 28, 2022 00:00 - 12 minutesProclamation! For the Last Sunday after Epiphany, Sunday, 27 February 2022 On this the last Sunday before the beginning of Lent, Reverend Shelley McVea celebrates the end of the season of epiphany by reflecting on divine experiences that happen high up on the mountain. In those high u...
Episode 175: What God Would Have Us Do
Proclamation! - February 21, 2022 00:00 - 20 minutesProclamation! For the Seventh Sunday after Epiphany, Sunday, 20 February 2022 Reverend Shelley McVea examines Psalm 37 to find insight into what God wants us to do: not to fret, or envy, to trust and do good, to delight in the Lord, to be still and wait patiently, to refrain from anger,...
Episode 174: Praise and Lamentation: A Look at the Psalms
Proclamation! - February 09, 2022 00:00 - 20 minutesProclamation! For the sixth Sunday after Epiphany, Sunday, 13 February 2022 Reverend Shelley McVea guides us through one of the most favorite and familiar books of the Old Testament: The Psalms. There we find that everything that has life can praise God, and we hear the lamentations ...
Episode 173: All Called By God
Proclamation! - February 02, 2022 00:00 - 14 minutesProclamation! For the fifth Sunday after Epiphany, Sunday, 6 February 2022 Reverend Shelley McVea continues the “aha” season with the story of Jesus approaching Simon Peter who, after a night of fishing, has caught not a single fish. Astonished by Jesus, Simon Peter cries out, “Go awa...
Episode 172: Love Corinthian Style
Proclamation! - January 26, 2022 00:00 - 11 minutesProclamation! For the fourth Sunday after Epiphany, Sunday, 30 January 2022 It is patient, it is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. It does not delight in evil but r...
Episode 171: Scripture Prepares Us for Vestry
Proclamation! - January 19, 2022 00:00 - 13 minutesProclamation! For Sunday, 23 January 2022 Our parish’s annual vestry meeting is scheduled for Sunday, 30 January 2022, on Zoom, immediately after our regular Sunday service. Reverend Shelley McVea uses the scriptures of the third Sunday after Epiphany to provide insights into how we ...
Episode 170: Turning Our Water into Wine
Proclamation! - January 13, 2022 00:00 - 14 minutesProclamation! For Sunday, 16 January 2022 Reverend Shelley McVea continues her look at the “Aha” season of Epiphany, by looking at an unlikely “Aha” moment: When Jesus turned water into wine at a wedding. His mother Mary had gone to Jesus nd told him that the hosts had run out of wine...
Episode 169: Filled with Expectation
Proclamation! - January 08, 2022 00:00 - 17 minutesProclamation! For Sunday, 9 January 2022 Reverend Shelley McVea celebrates the Baptism of Christ, and leads us from the season of Advent and Christmas, into the “aha!” season of Epiphany. We’ve prepared our homes and our hearts for the coming of the Christ. As the scripture says, ...
Episode 168: Three Wise Seekers
Proclamation! - January 02, 2022 00:00 - 14 minutesProclamation! For Sunday, 2 January 2022 Reverend Shelley McVea leads us through the story of three unusual seekers who arrived in Bethlehem looking for the solution to a mystery that had drawn them on a long journey. Who were they? They came from the east, they rode on camels, and th...
Episode 167: Putting the Christmas Puzzle Together
Proclamation! - December 26, 2021 00:00 - 17 minutesProclamation! For Sunday, 26 December 2021 Reverend Shelley McVea celebrates the arrival of Christmas by comparing the kingdom of God is like a puzzle, and each of us are pieces of the puzzle. *** St. Saviour’s Church, 43 Kimberley Avenue, Toronto, M4E 2Z4 416-699-6512 Email: ...
Episode 166: Girl Talk
Proclamation! - December 21, 2021 00:00 - 19 minutesProclamation! For the Fourth Sunday of Advent, Sunday, 19 December 2021 Reverend Shelley McVea leads us into the holy week before Christmas by looking at a conversation between two special women: Mary and Elisabeth. Elisabeth greets the pregnant young woman by saying, “You are favoure...
Episode 165: Things Go Wrong
Proclamation! - December 18, 2021 00:00 - 14 minutesProclamation! For the Third Sunday of Advent, Sunday, 12 December 2021 Reverend Shelley McVea tells the story of John the Baptist, as he preaches in the wilderness. Crowds follow and gather around to hear what he has to say. The question is, what can we do when things go wrong? John’...
Episode 164: Declutter Ye The Way
Proclamation! - December 07, 2021 00:00 - 14 minutesProclamation! For the Second Sunday of Advent, Sunday, 5 December 2021 Reverend Shelley McVea confronts the clutter of her home as she decorates for Christmas and finds that sometimes we have so much clutter in our homes that we no longer have any room for the manger. Physical clutte...
Episode 163: Your Redemption is Drawing Near
Proclamation! - November 29, 2021 00:00 - 15 minutesProclamation! For the First Sunday of Advent, Sunday, 28 November 2021 Reverend Shelley McVea preaches for the first Sunday of Advent and reflects on the return of Christ. Floods, unrest, disease, many things cause us to fear so deeply that we would faint. But scripture counsels us: w...
Episode 162: The Reign of Christ
Proclamation! - November 22, 2021 00:00 - 12 minutesProclamation! For the Reign of Christ the King, Sunday, 21 November 2021 As we get ready to celebrate the season of Advent, which starts next week, Interim Priest David Bryant explains the significance of the reign of Christ the King. Christ is a special kind of king: his kingdom is n...
Episode 161: Preparing for Difficult Times to Come
Proclamation! - November 14, 2021 00:00 - 15 minutesProclamation! For the twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday, 14 November 2021 Interim Priest David Bryant captures a moment in Jesus’ life, as Jesus and his disciples are leaving the temple, they look at the large stones that are the foundation of the temple. Jesus foreshadows...
Episode 160: Remembrance through the Eyes of an Artist
Proclamation! - November 07, 2021 00:00 - 13 minutesProclamation! For the twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday, 7 November 2021 Interim Priest David Bryant reflects on the significance of remembering those who served in or suffered from wars. Reverend David tells us the story of WWII veteran, the Canadian artist John Bennett ...
Episode 159: Calling All Saints
Proclamation! - November 05, 2021 00:00 - 13 minutesProclamation! For the twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday, 31 October 2021 On the eve of All Saints, Interim Priest David Bryant considers the true nature of saints: what makes a person a saint in the eyes of God? St. Saviour’s Church, 43 Kimberley Avenue, Toronto, M4E 2Z4 ...
Episode 158: The Miracle of Insight
Proclamation! - October 25, 2021 00:00 - 13 minutesProclamation! For the twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday, 24 October 2021 Interim Priest David Bryant considers the story of Bartimaeus, who calls out for healing: “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me...let me see again.” Seeing his sincerity, Jesus said to him, “Go, your ...
Episode 157: Journey to the New Jerusalem
Proclamation! - October 22, 2021 00:00 - 13 minutesProclamation! For the twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday, 17 October 2021 Interim Priest David Bryant investigates the question that James and John ask Jesus. They are walking on the road to Jerusalem and James and John ask if they could sit beside Jesus in the kingdom of he...
Episode 156: Don’t Worry, Just Pray
Proclamation! - October 11, 2021 00:00 - 13 minutesProclamation! For the twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday, 10 October 2021 Service for Canadian Thanksgiving Sunday Interim Priest David Bryant preaches on one of the most beautiful passages in the gospel of Matthew: “Look at the birds of the air, they neither sow nor reap nor ga...
Episode 155: Saints and Sinners Alike
Proclamation! - September 28, 2021 00:00 - 14 minutesProclamation! For the eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday, 26 September 2021 Interim priest David Bryant considers the difficult choices we make as followers of Jesus. How hard is it for us to “get out of the way of God’s Kingdom” and be God’s “zest” in the world? Even the sma...
Episode 154: Is There a Back Up Plan?
Proclamation! - September 20, 2021 00:00 - 13 minutesProclamation! For the seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday, 19 September 2021 Interim priest David Bryant considers the answers that Jesus gives to the angels when they ask, what is your plan? My followers are my plan. And do you have a back up plan? No, there is no other plan ...
Episode 153: The Woman who Asks Jesus for Healing
Proclamation! - September 02, 2021 00:00 - 14 minutesProclamation! For the fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday, 5 September 2021 Reverend Shelley McVea, who pre-recorded this sermon for us, tells us about the woman who begs Jesus for healing for her daughter, who is possessed by a demon. When Jesus hesitates, the woman convinces Je...
Episode 152: Even Dogs Eat Crumbs
Proclamation! - September 02, 2021 00:00 - 14 minutesProclamation! For the fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday, 5 September 2021 Reverend Shelley McVea returns with a sermon on the woman with the unclean spirit who begs Jesus for healing. Jesus hesitates but the woman convinces Jesus to come to her aid by asking him, “Do not even t...
Episode 152: Called to Good Works
Proclamation! - August 26, 2021 00:00 - 10 minutesProclamation! For the fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday, 29 August 2021 In August, while Reverend Shelley McVea enjoys some well-deserved time off, we are featuring a series of guest sermons. As the summer nears its ending, Rev. Canon David Harrison considers the ways that ...
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