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I’m Offended
I read a startling statistic the other day, according to Google, the phrase "I'm offended" has increased in usage by more than 5,600% in just the past century. It took me a minute to process that ‘the past century’ meant from the beginning of 2000 and not 1900. You don’t have to look very far…
A Return to Civility: Do not Covet
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…
Full Life or Empty Life?
Well, she’s dead! But, she certainly had a good run of it. 117 years 5 months and 16 days after she was born Maria Morera died. She was the oldest living human on the planet at the time of her demise. And from all accounts, Maria lived a full life. A life that she enjoyed.…
A Return to Civility 9: Do no Lie
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…
Hero or Thief?
He was called the Robin Hood of McNuggets and across the Internet, people lauded him as a hero of the people. But the proper term for him is a thief. I came across an old article about Cody Bondarchuk, of Edmonton who tweeted, “I worked at McDonald’s for two-and-a-half years, and I put 11 nuggets in…
We’re Winning!
Well, another survey is out showing that Christianity is losing ground and that church attendance is down. The world would like us to think that we’re failing in our mission. But, depending on your perspective, we aren’t losing, we’re winning. When you stop and think about it, every person who isn’t a Christian hasn’t been…
Staying Relevant
From ski slaloms to swimming pools. What had once been showpieces on the world stage are now ruins. The victims of war, neglect and bankrupt nations.I read an article the other day about Olympic venues from around the world that are no longer in use and have fallen into total disrepair. And that wasn’t the…
A Return to Civility 6. . . Honour Your Parents
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 #…
Was it or Wasn’t it?
Was it, or wasn’t it? That’s the question people worldwide were asking about one scene in the Olympic Games opening ceremony.Was it a mockery of DaVinci’s painting of the Last Supper or, as the opening ceremony’s artistic director, Thomas Jolly insisted, simply a celebration of pagan gods? So, we can rejoice that it wasn't a…
A Return to Civility 6: Do Not Murder
A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five and six-year-olds. After explaining the commandment to "honour thy father and thy mother," she asked, "Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?" Without missing a beat, one little boy (the eldest child of a family) answered,…