Reverend Marco Ste-Marie

RESTOREJohn 11:1–44 Bethany is not a safe place for Jesus to go. That matters. When Jesus says he is going back to Judea, the disciples do not respond with calm trust. They respond with fear: “Rabbi, the Jews were just now trying to stone you, and are you going there again?” They are not being… Read more

Today Our scriptures are taken from Luke 15:11-24 in the First Nation Version In this Lenten season, we often speak about repentance. But repentance is not only about feeling sorry. It is not only about naming what we have done wrong. At its heart, repentance is a changed direction. Lent is about turning. A conscious… Read more

The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree6 Then He told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard. He came and looked for fruit on it and found none. 7 So he said to the vinedresser of his vineyard, ‘Now these three years I have come looking for fruit on this… Read more

Release: Setting Down What Was Never Yours to CarryHebrews 12:1–2 Friends, Lent invites us to tell the truth. Not to shame ourselves. Not to beat ourselves up. But to tell the truth in the presence of love. Unfortunately, Hebrews 12:1–2 has often been use to glorify suffering or to tell abused, oppressed, or exhausted people… Read more

Luke 19:1–10 There are words we love in church: grace, love, welcome, justice, mercy. We can say them beautifully. We can print them in bulletins. We can sing them in hymns. But Luke, again and again, asks a sharper question: When do those words become visible in our lives? Because too often, we are not… Read more

WORDS FROM REV MARCO I’ve been thinking a lot about power lately—not only the kind we see in governments and institutions, but the quieter kind that lives in ordinary life. Power is not always loud. Sometimes it is simply the ability to shape a room, steer a decision, set the tone, or define what is… Read more