Tag: Today’s Faith
Today’s Faith – August 2025
By Rev. Janet Stobie Love, Laughter, Humility and Justice Can Grow a Garden of Peace. When I listen to the news today, I feel like the darkness that covered the earth before creation is…
Today’s Faith – July 2025
By Rev. Janet Stobie “We need someone to chair this committee, please.” All eyes turn to the floor. Silence echoes around the room. Many members are thinking, Not me. Not me. A number of…
Today’s Faith – Time To Pray
By Rev. Janet Stobie The maple tree outside my window has been dying by inches ever since we moved here. But every year, including this one, it has put out beautiful new leaves, fragile…
Today’s Faith – Celebrating Mothers
By Rev. Janet Stobie Celebrating Mothers is a special privilege for me because I was blessed with two wonderful mothers. Today I want to tell you something special about my mother who adopted me…
Today’s Faith: Let’s Line Up At The Door
by Rev. Janet Stobie I’ve been reading John Pentland’s “Fishing Tips,” while I’ve been confined at home within influenza. Yesterday, I wrote down his question, “Do we want people to line up to get…
Today’s Faith
In our Christian church year the season of Lent is beginning. The forty days of Lent give us time to look at our personal lives and check out how we are doing. For some…
The Wonder of Stories
At the end of January, I completed the first draft of my eleventh book, (my second worship resource), Dipping Your Toes, Too. The manuscript is filled with stories, mostly small and personal, that connect the Bible…
Today’s Faith – January 2025
I finished 2024 with a column about Hope. My topic for this column, January 2025, is humility, the foundation stone of Hope. For the last month I’ve been reflecting on the thoughts of Canadian…
Sowing Light, Reaping Hope
In the Christian church year, the season of Advent begins the first week of December. We light a symbolic candle of Hope that first Sunday. In today’s world we need Hope. The daily news…