It was almost like they had had been two different debates. The first where Donald Trump was the victor and the second where Hillary Clinton emerged victorious.I didn’t watch the presidential election debate on Monday but others did. At least I thought so. The first story I read on Tuesday told me that Hillary was…
God Loves Our Worship
In all my years of ministry I haven’t found anything that can make church people as cranky as the music. Seriously. Thom Ranier a church growth and health consultant wrote “The comment ‘someone complained about the music at my church’ is a universal phenomenon of our age.” If you’ve been with us over the past…
The Trouble with Trouples
It was a term I had never heard before, I understood the “Trouble with Tribbles” but what was this “Trouble with Trouples”? I came across an article the other day talking about trouples and I discovered that it is a term for a polyamorous unit made up of three individuals. It could be any combination…
God Loves Children
It was just about this time of year 22 years ago. We had just moved to Bedford to start what would eventually become Cornerstone and I had to fly to Colorado to attend what was called “Church Planters Boot Camp”, an intensive week long training session that included men and women from around North America.…
Oops!
She had obviously never heard the old proverb “Revenge is a dish best served cold.” Of if she heard it she wasn’t paying attention, because it appears she wanted her revenge to be hot.I read an article this week about a Florida woman who set her ex-boyfriend’s car on fire, presumably in retribution for something…
God Loves Lost People
If you’ve been around Cornerstone long enough you have probably heard our mission statement or perhaps you’ve read it on our website. Late in the last century when Angela and I were dreaming about what this church would look like we were told that an important part of that process was to develop a mission…
Lost . . .
“The first thing I thought was that this is exactly what will happen when Donald Trump will be elected: It's good practice.” Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley may have joked about the recent invasion of his town by Americans, but he wasn’t laughing when he realized that Sarnia would have to pay to get them home.In…
1 Corinthians 3:16
The city of Corinth was rife with temples, the temple of Aphrodite, the goddess of love, stood atop the Acrocorinth, which means the Acropolis of Corinth, but you probably knew that. Acropolis is simply a fancy word for high ground. And so Aphrodite’s temple held an honoured place high above the city. And before you…
Us vs Them
Staying on a sports theme from the last couple of weeks, albeit a different time and different game, I read an article recently about some of the original players from the 1972 Summit Series. That would be a hockey series, specifically a series between Canada and the former Soviet Union. I remember watching the last…