Have you had enough spiders this fall? Incredible, the number of arachnids we have around the outside of our house right now. Mind you, having lived in Australia for four years—where you could saddle the spiders and ride them like ponies—these aren’t a particular threat. It’s not the spiders I mind; live and let live,…
Mending our Brokenness
Ephesians 4: The GiftDo you like to get a gift? Sure you do, everyone loves to get gifts. Well most people, remember this from our series last Christmas. (Clip from Big Bang Theory)Often when we think of gifts in a church setting we think of the gift of grace, or the gift of salvation or…
I Owed a Debt I Could Not Pay . . .
1.5 Trillion dollars. Imagine, that’s a 1.5 followed by 12 zeros. That is enough to pay off the national debt of England, enough to give every Canadian $50,000.00 or enough to buy every person in the world an iPod. 1.5 Trillion dollars, if it was paid in $1000.00 bills, it would be a stack 163…
Hanging with Who?
He was a little confused. There were some people who loved him and others who hated him. He thought he was doing a good thing, a necessary thing, even a God thing, but obviously there were those who disagreed. Nehemiah was one of the Jews living in exile and was in the service of the…
Now that’s big!
I spent part of last week travelling. I got a good deal on a ticket to Atlanta Georgia that went by way of Fort Lauderdale, Florida and saved $150.00 over a more direct flight. But it wasn’t just a trip to see how much of the Eastern Seaboard I could cover in one day. It…
Gently, Gently
I cringed when I saw it fall on the TV news. It seemed so.., so disrespectful,... just not right. I couldn’t believe they allowed to happen. But I suppose, how do you stop such a thing from happening once events have been set in motion. In case you’re wondering, it was the report that the…
Measure of Success
When I was in High School I wasn’t sure what I wanted to be when I grew up, sometimes even today I’m not sure what I want to be when I grow up. However I had plenty of dreams and aspiration, and whenever I visualized myself doing any of those particular things that I dreamed…