This is week five of our “What Jesus Said About Emotions” series. And emotions are a part of each one of us. God created us as emotional beings, within the first three chapters of the story we watch the first couple as they experience loneliness, joy, love, envy, fear and shame. And we are all…
Bizarre? Maybe not
It’s been a bizarre couple of weeks, with stories in the news about the Cannibal Zombie in the Miami area, a gunman opening fire on shoppers in the Eaton’s centre in Toronto, body parts being mailed to the Prime Minister and yet another murder here in Halifax. It leaves people shaking their heads and asking,…
What Jesus Said about Joy
Does anyone remember Balki’s “Dance of Joy”? A few people, does anyone remember Balki and his cousin Larry? The sitcom “Perfect Strangers”? Does anyone know what I’m talking about? I feel so old. And so for all of you who missed this great theatre from yesteryear, here is the dance of Joy in its purest…
That’s not space. . .
That’s not space, that’s just really high in the sky. . . I was brought up watching Star Trek, watching them “Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before”. When I was 9, I watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon and when I was 17 I was introduced to the conflicts that were happening…
What Jesus said about. . . Fear
What Jesus Said About Fear So, what are you afraid of? What it is that sends Goosebumps up and down your spine, brings your heart to your throat and makes you want to throw up just thinking about it? Snakes, heights, spiders, enclosed spaces? Back in the day one of my favourite shows was “Fear…
I want a Submarine
I want a submarine. Which is bizarre since I have never really wanted a submarine, except when I was 12. But I want one now. It doesn’t have to be fancy or even yellow, any old sub will do as long as it floats when it is supposed to and doesn’t float when it not…
What Jesus Said About . . . Hate
If we were to ask you to name the opposite of a particular word it would be easy, right? Up, down. Right, left or right, wrong. In, out. Black, white. Happy, sad. What about love? You are thinking that would be easy, hate? Maybe anger? American psychologist, Rollo May stated “Hate is not the opposite…
Growing Older, but not Gracefully
I thought I was going to have to pick Angela up off the floor as she was laughing so hard. She was really enjoying herself at my expense. We were shopping and the clerk at the check-out asked if I was a senior. Hello! So I replied “yes, I'm ninety-two.” Which I thought was an…
A Hooker for Mom of the Year
Last week we started looking at: What Jesus Said About our Emotions, and we’ll be coming back to that next week, this week is all about mom. If you were looking for a contestant for “Mother of the Year” this mom probably wouldn’t have made your list. She was just a hooker, a lady of…
They will know we are Christians by our. . .
Well, it would appear that young William Swinimer has become something of a folk hero in the Christian community. You would think he had been burned at the stake for refusing to renounce his faith instead of being asked not to wear a T-Shirt that some might feel was offensive. Obviously nobody in the Christian…