Cedar Park United
Cedar Park United is on the progressive end of the Christian neighbourhood, taking the Bible seriously, but not literally, engaging the sciences and arts in our ways of following Jesus, and learning and re-learning how to live with respect in Creation, while creating as wide a welcome as we can for all who seek wisdom, belonging, and common purpose around the Dream of God for the world. We're so glad you're here!
Episodes
This week, worship leader Ian Fraser, in conversation with Montreal-based jazz pianist Taurey Butler, explores the relationship between jazz music and spirituality. If Jesus had been a musician, Ian’s pretty sure he would have played jazz. Why? Keep listening to find out… and enjoy Taurey's inspiring musical offering, “What a Wonderful World”*
*By Louis Armstrong, Bob Thiele and Weiss livestreamed and recorded under ONE LICE...
Last week we gave thanks at Christ’s table in The Great Prayer of Thanksgiving. This week, worship leader Jessica Gauthier reflects that, to be a Thanksgiving People is to let gratitude shape our hearts: to rejoice in all things; to pray with thanksgiving; and to let God’s generosity overflow through us.
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The Season of Creation closes and we step into World Communion Sunday, carrying with us the image of the Tree of Life. Worship leader Jessica Gauthier speaks of how Paul reminds Timothy to guard the good gift of faith, passed down through mother, grandmother, and mentor, and now entrusted to us, to be shared with radical hospitality.
It is like fruit from the Tree of Life, like bread broken at Christ’s table. In the Great Thanksgiv...
Today we hear from the Apostle Paul’s first letter to his friend and colleague Timothy. God calls us to be rich in helping others. In his reflection, lay worship leader Paul Clarke asks, how hard can it be?
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In Luke 16 a manager is described as “shrewd”. Is this complimenting his discerning wisdom or criticizing his wily ways? Have we been shrewd in our relationship with creation?" Visiting minister Rev. Cathy Hamilton asks, “have we been shrewd with creation?
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In a lovely synchronization to the new Fall season, this episode is a deep dive into the spiritual life of the pastoral minister at Cedar Park, Jessica Gauthier.
She is a spiritual care professional, theologian, preacher, friend to plants and people, and accomplished singer. Follow the garden pathway with Jessica and Joanne that leads to a conversation about theology, Christian history, reforming church, and the cultivation of joy.
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The world tree, the tree of wisdom, the tree of life—ancient symbols of creation and renewal. Today, Pastoral Minister Jessica Gauthier invites us to consider the cross as tree: rooted in suffering, rising in hope. How might this ancient image help us glimpse a theology of the cross that is truly good news?
** Our worship audio is recorded live and this time, we had some slight technical difficulties. We thought the content was wo...
Speaking to the gathered congregations of the West Island and Beyond United Churches cluster, Pastoral Minister Jessica Gauthier invites us all to consider how often we are tempted to clutch our time, resources, and energy as if we could have control by holding on tightly. But we can’t take any of it with us... Holy abundance is poured out extravagantly, not hoarded. What if we lived the same way, she asks, spending our time, our t...
Distilled to essence: Parting words of joy and encouragement from Rev. Dr. Elisabeth Jones
In the week leading up to her last Sunday with the community of Cedar Park United, Rev. Elisabeth met with Ernie Bauer, teacher and member of Cedar Park United, for a beautiful 90-minute conversation about resistant joy, generosity, the Holy Spirit at work, and the role of progressive Christianity in this very complex time.
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Our Trinity Sunday worship was an invitation to wonder at the mystery of God as Love in relationship. Through music and scripture, we listened, sang, and shared in a service shaped by the worship life of those who live at Saint Andrew’s Residence, as they experience it each Sunday afternoon with our Pastoral Minister, Jessica Gauthier. Listen as she shares what “Sundays in the Solarium” are like and adds context to her role of walk...
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In her final sermon as Lead Minister of Cedar Park United, Rev. Dr. Elisabeth Jones invites us to “turn” a sacred text together to encourage us all in our journeys of faith and witness. Which text…? Well, that’s for you to find out as you listen. Her parting message to this community of faith, however, is clear: "God has equipped you. God’s got you. You’ve got this. It’s your turn. Car...
Today we welcomed new members by affirmation of faith and by child-dedication–what greater affirmation of a faithful future held safe in the hands of God can we have? As Rev. Dr. Elisabeth Jones put it in her reflection on Lydia, one of the pivotal “matriarchs” of Christian life and witness, these new members are “rich purple cloth to add to the tapestry of this community’s Gospel story.”
In holy conversation with Scripture, the Quran, and two women of faith – Rev. Dr. Elisabeth Jones and Dr. Afra Jalabi – we explore what holy Love looks like when humans embody it for the sake of others; it looks remarkably like compassion and mercy, and it is stronger than hate.
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The beloved 23rd Psalm helps us to explore God’s shepherding presence through life’s darkest valleys, and across the bridges to a faithful future. As a community about to begin a new chapter as Rev. Elisabeth’s retirement approaches, we’re faced with the question: How will we bridge the gap between this chapter and the next? All the cumulative stories of our faith, found in Scripture and in our experience, point to a dynamic moveme...
What happens when someone’s unique talents are touched by a Gospel of love, compassion and hope? Listen to today’s conversation between Rev. Dr. Elisabeth Jones, Pat Mayberry and Heather MacIntosh and be inspired by this “Gospel according to everyone.”
Hear the Gospel reading of the conversion of Saul from Acts 9:1-6, (7-20), in the livestream recording.
The song Conversation was composed by Pat Mayberry and performed by Pat Mayberry...
Today is the 2nd Sunday of Easter — Holy Humour Sunday! Rooted in ancient tradition, it’s a day to let Easter joy rise in laughter, music, and surprise. This isn’t silliness for its own sake. It’s a celebration of the outrageous good news: Christ is risen, and joy has the last word. And to this, Candidate Minister Jessica Gauthier brings in the laughter…
Hear the Gospel reading from John 20 and 21 in the livestream recording.
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In this, her last Easter sermon as Lead Minister of Cedar Park United, Rev. Dr. Elisabeth Jones reflects on the 13 different sermons she’s preached on Easter, and how none of those sermons could preach to today. To this Easter, 2025. This year we need resurrection to be real, and specific, and concrete, and tangible, beyond doubt, and particular. This year, we need a resurrection more than ever!
Hear the Gospel reading from Luke 24...
In today’s reflection, from the 5th Sunday in Lent, Candidate Minister Jessica Gauthier invites us to reflect on love that overflows—love so generous it might seem wasteful. What do we hold back, and why? What might it look like to pour ourselves out with that same fearless devotion? Perhaps “foolish and ruined…”
Hear the Gospel reading from John 12:1-8 in the livestream recording.
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God’s “Nevertheless” of forgiveness for sins is strange wisdom, and stranger still when we witness those who have power using it to condemn and punish “to the full extent of the law”… and beyond. What can God’s strange wisdom offer to us, and to our human community, in these troubling times? In this reflection from the fourth Sunday in Lent, Rev. Dr. Elisabeth Jones invites us to consider the question: Is there ever a circumstance ...
The weekend of March 21-23, 2025 was one of connection and community across faith dividing lines for Cedar Park United and Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom, to find common purpose in movements of compassion. In today’s podcast, you’ll hear the sermon preached by Rev. Dr. Elisabeth Jones during the Erev Shabbat Friday evening service at Temple, as well as the message delivered on Sunday morning at Cedar Park United by Rabbi Dr. Lisa Grus...
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