Penn of DennDid you hear about the homeless man in Winnipeg, who jumped into the Red River and saved a drowning victim? Twice! It seems that Faron Hall was on the riverbank last week, when 19 year old Tara Beardy began to struggle with the current after diving into the eight metre deep water. The…
Find Time
Pussy cat, pussy cat where have you been?"I have been to London to visit the queen"Pussy cat, pussy cat what did you there?"I frightened a little mouse right under her chair" You ever think about it? Here is a cat that has been given probably the greatest opportunity of his life, the chance to see the…
Have you been crucified
If there is one thing that really bugs me about some preachers today it's that they lie I mean they don't just tell little lies, they tell great big whopping lies. theological lies and spiritual lies. They tell their people things that aren't true, and things that are heresies. And the biggest heresy that is…
The Persistent Decision
It was the spring of 94 or the fall of 94, I get them confused, only because we were in Australia and it was April, which is fall there but spring here. Regardless of what it's called it was April and in April in Queensland you could get these really neat torrential rainstorms that lasted…
The Compassionate Decision
He just kept right on smiling. It didn't matter what they did or what they said he just kept right on smiling. They were American army officers and he was their Korean house boy, and for what ever reason they gave him a hard time about everything, he wasn't fast enough, he wasn't polite enough,…
The Joyful Decision
To be like Christ, to be Christ like. That is the goal of most Christ followers, if you ask people who are serious about their faith where they want to go in their spiritual journey they will tell you they want to become more and more like Jesus. But what does that mean? One of…
It seemed like a good idea
I read a great news article a while back. A man in Kansas City, by the name of Wesley Fitzpatrick, applied for a temporary restraining order against a female whom he said was stalking him. Fitzpatrick claimed that she was making him, "scared and depressed and in fear of my freedom." The restraining order was…
The Certain Decision
Have you ever been disappointed with the way things are turning out but still certain of where you are supposed to be going? Joshua and Caleb followed Moses out of Egypt along with the rest of the people of Israel and during that time they had watched God provide for them time and time again.…
The Active Decision
The entire world just disappeared. One minute it was there and the next minute, there it was gone. Well not really but it seemed like everything else had ceased to exist, and all there was left was Peter, the sea and Christ. It had started off as another boat trip across the Sea of Galilee…
Mourning?
Penn of DennLast Friday morning, I heard a radio newscaster state, " The world is mourning the loss of the king of pop!" Wow, I thought, I must be a horrible person, if the entire world was mourning the death of Michael Jackson and I wasn't feeling bad at all. So I checked with friends…