Cold enough for you?

Have you picked up on the fact that winter isn’t my favourite season?  As a matter of fact winter doesn’t even rank in the list of my top favourite seasons. (which just happen to be summer, summer, summer and autumn)  But it’s not just the weather, it’s having to listen to everyone gripe about the…

Learning From Martha

For ten years starting in 1968 Christian Life Magazine published a list compiled by Elmer Towns, who was a Sunday School Guru, listing the top 100 Sunday Schools in America.    In 1974 the largest Sunday School in the US and assumedly in the world was First Baptist Church in Hammond Indiana with an average…

I was blind but now I see.

This is week three of Old School Sunday School.  And we sometimes think of Sunday School as a fairly recent phenomena, something that became a part of our churches in the fifties, when the parents of the boomers were filling churches with their growing families.  But the first Sunday schools were set up in the…

Ouch

Recently I heard about a four year old boy in Ontario who suffered frost bite on his tongue when he licked the frozen window on his school bus. Ouch.  When I was a kid there was always the story about the kid who got stuck to a sign post in the winter when they licked…

The Baptism of Jesus, Old School Sunday School 2

This is week two of our Old School Sunday School series.  We tried this last year and had so much fun with the Old Testament Stories that we decided to bring it back for an encore. Sunday School isn’t a big deal in most churches these days, it’s been rebranded as Jr. Church and instead…

Smile, it’s good for You

Last month Grand Manan Island lost one of its oldest residents, a man that the media has embraced over the past several years.  There have been television specials aired about him and magazine articles written about him.  Part of the fascination seems to be that even in his tenth decade, Oliver Green has continued to…

Losing Jesus, Old School Sunday School 2

So, where were you when you lost your kid?  Seriously, if you have children you’ve lost one at some point or another. And if you haven’t lost one yet you will.  Maybe it was in a grocery store, or on a street, at Disney Land or perhaps at church.  But you remember the moment when…