What a Day

What a day!  Normally when we think of the Sunday before Easter we focus on what is traditionally referred to as the “Triumphant Entry”.  You remember the story, Jesus comes riding into Jerusalem on a young donkey and the crowds come out to greet him, yelling praises and waving Palm Branches which is where the…

But we’re not sinking.

We’ve been having a few leaks in the church building lately & actually that kind of minimizes the issue. If we were a boat we’d be sinking.  Ten years ago, as I watched the property being cleared and test pits being dug, I was in no way thinking about the building problems we might be…

Zach in a Tree

The crowd surged toward the road, pushing and shoving to get a better look at the man called Jesus.  The city was Jericho and it was wall to wall people, each one of them eager to get a look at the young carpenter from Nazareth that everyone was talking about.   It was his first time…

It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

It’s here, it’s here! That time of the year that we all look forward to. The time of the year that we realize how lucky we are to live in this wonderful country and we can take the time to reflect on how blessed we are. That’s right... it’s “Tax Time”! What did you think…

Get Out of the Boat

Here we are in Week seven of our old school Sunday School series and during that time we have see Jesus lost in the temple, baptized in a river, heal a paralyzed man and a blind man and mediate a sibling rivalry.  And that’s what happened when Sunday School was being taught, each week a…

Here comes the Sun!

Have you noticed lately how much more daylight we are seeing. Each day it's getting light earlier and staying light longer and as Martha would say: That's a good thing.Spring is not only an awesome time of the year but it's also a great metaphor for life. No matter how dark, cold and long the…

What it Takes to Kick a Hole in the Roof

This winter we decided to re-visit Sunday School to bring you some of the New Testament Stories that those who were brought up in a traditional Sunday School learned as children.  So we’ve taken to the flannelgraph to tell you the stories of how Mary and Joseph lost Jesus in Jerusalem when he was twelve,…

Praying or Playing?

A while back I read a story that said 58% of sport fans pray that their team will win. I'm not sure what to make of that, other than wild speculation concerning the spiritual condition of Toronto Maple Leaf fans. 58 %, so how would, or more importantly how should, God respond to those prayers?…

The Good Samaritan

This is week five of our Old School Sunday School series.  Each week we’ve been re-telling some of the great bible stories from the New Testament, and so we’ve discovered new insights from the story of Jesus’ parents losing him when he was a kid, about Jesus being baptized, healing the blind man and being…