So you probably know the story, the Angel Gabriel appears to Mary and tells her the exciting news, she’s going to be a mom, even though she is still a virgin, they work out the details but then there is the entire process of telling her parents and her fiancé, in Australia we’d say that…

Adultery, what a nasty word. It’s no wonder people don’t call it that, they refer to it as an affair of the heart, a fling, illicit love even an extramarital relationship, anything but adultery. How could it be wrong, after all everyone is doing it, aren’t they? Well, I know of one person for sure…

“Be civil and don’t kill each other.” If you’ve never said that to your kids when you leave them alone together, you’ve probably thought it. Which leads us to the scripture read for us earlier, Matthew 5:21 Jesus said, “You have heard that our ancestors were told, ‘You must not murder. If you commit murder,…

And you are probably wondering, what’s with Buzz? If you were with us this summer, our theme was “A Return to Civility” and we focused on the Ten Commandments. But, while civility may keep society intact, it is the minimum. Have you ever heard someone comment, at least they were civil? That’s not exactly a…

The church! When you think of the church, what is it you think of? For some people, there is only one church. The one they were brought to as an infant, where they went to Sunday School and then on to youth group. The church where they were baptized, where they were married, and the…

For many of you, that opening scene is familiar and brings back memories of the 1980s and 90s.  It of course is the opening credits from the sitcom, Cheers. A while back, Angela and I cut the cable and have been relying on streaming services, and because we are fairly selective in our viewing, avoiding…

A Sunday school teacher was asking her class if anyone knew what the Tenth Commandment was, to which a little boy responded, “You must not take the covers off your neighbour’s wife.” Pretty close. Well, here we are—the last week of our series, A Return to Civility.  When we started the series in June, I…

Well, that was fun, and maybe a little bit convicting. I think that if we were honest today, we’d all agree that there is a feeling of violation that happens when we feel that we have been deceived. Most relationships can take almost anything except deceit. It was Friedrich Nietzsche who said, “I'm not upset…

Civility 5 A little change in direction here.  We started this series on the Ten Commandments, back in June and after the first four commandments, there’s about to be an abrupt turn.  Last week, knowing that this week was going to be one of our three family Sundays this summer, I spoke on Commandment #…