A Tribute to J.I. Packer – 1926-2020
Journalist Sue Careless offers a retrospective on the life, witness and legacy of Dr. J.I. Packer.
Read moreThe Revd. Dr. J.I. Packer – R.I.P.
The Red. Dr. David Curry reflects on the late J.I. Packer’s solid faith, deep learning, wide-ranging influence, enormous legacy of writings, and unswerving support of the Book of Common Prayer throughout his life, and his greatly appreciated contributions to the PBSC.
Read moreTrinity 14: Bishop Michael Hawkins (Sermon 1)
It is not enough to talk the talk, you must walk the walk. “Walk in the Spirit,” we are told by Paul two Sundays in a row, in readings from Galatians…
Read moreTrinity 14: Father Gethin
So Paul wants us to be clear of these two things: that our conversion restores us to our God-given life and identities, our individual places in His kingdom, so that, as the subjects of that kingdom, we may be the ministers of its peace to one and other…
Read moreTwo Tributes in honour of J.I. Packer
The Revd. Dr. J.I. Packer was a staunch supporter of the BCP, and served as a vice-chairman of the PBSC for many years. He was one of the giants of the Evangelical and Anglican world, like the California Redwoods…
Read moreNew Daily Office Mobile App from PBSC
The Society hopes that this mobile app will encourage Christians throughout Canada to take up the discipline of regularly praying the Offices during this “Covidtide”, as well as throughout the next liturgical year and beyond.
Read moreTrinity 13: Bishop Michael Hawkins (Sermon 1)
Our readings today are about Christian morality, about Christian living, which means walking in the Spirit as we follow Jesus Christ…
Read moreTrinity 13: Father Gethin
In our wretchedness Christ comes to minister His gifts of healing and redemption, and restores us to new life at His own expense…
Read moreTrinity 13: Father Gethin (2)
The lessons for these middle weeks of the Trinity season teach us how we may receive, and how we are reformed and renewed by the gift of our redemption. This follows in an orderly way from the first weeks of Trinitytide, where we came to know more clearly the impediments to our faith, and the ways we must be converted, in order that we might find ourselves prepared to receive fully the gift that God offers in Christ.
Read moreTrinity 12: Father Gethin
In the course of our growth in faith, we come to find that salvation is not only a matter of how the “sin which so easily besets us” has been overcome in the humility of our Lord’s Passion; salvation is also our direct experience of Jesus meeting us in our immediate and personal need and brokenness…
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