For most of us the lead up to Easter begins with Palm Sunday, in case you missed it that’s today. But really the stage was set before the celebration of the triumphant entry. Most of you know that I am a Jesus Christ Super Star nerd and in the past I’ve shown the Palm Sunday…
May the Choice be with you
It was good to see old friends again, if only for a couple of hours. This week Angela and I finally got around to seeing Star Wars: The Force Awakens. And we enjoyed the familiar faces, although through the years the characters kept getting mixed up. Sometimes I thought I saw Indiana Jones instead of…
Your Attitude Will Determine Your Altitude
How many people know what a bucket list is? If you don’t know, it is a list of things you want to do before you die, or kick the bucket. The concept is best explained in the 2007 movie with Jack Nicolson and Morgan Freeman. (Show clip) How many of you have a bucket list? …
Fly Away
We are home from our vacation. We had a great time and everything went smoothly right up to our flight home. Plane left on time, flight crew was great, we arrived on time and then we attempted to land in Halifax. We experienced some of the worst turbulence that I have ever been in and…
Ships of the Bible
We love cruising! We took our first cruise in 2007 and decided that as long as we were able to, that we were going to cruise every year. And we have, mostly Caribbean but one Alaskan and we are looking at the possibility of a Baltic Sea cruise, maybe in 2019. And cruising seems to…
Hello?
One night our phone rang at 4:45, in the morning! You know that if you get a telephone call at that hour it can't be good news. Nobody calls you at quarter to five in the morning just to say hello or to tell you that you’ve won the lottery, in which case it would…
A Tough Promise to Keep
A Tough Promise to Keep Have you ever made a promise you regretted? Given your word and then realized the price was way too high but couldn’t find a graceful way to back out? Happened different times in the bible. Herod had John the Baptist arrested because John wouldn’t stop harping on the fact that…
abandoned
You can find pictures of it everywhere, I have two in my office, but that’s to be expected, my Grandfather was born there over a hundred years ago. And I while I have seen it from a distance I never actually got over for a visit, and now it’s too late. It was a little…
We All Need Grace
And here we are at the end of Moments of Grace. Over the past seven weeks we have seen how Grace has been experienced and expressed throughout the Bible and we’ve looked at Grace displayed in an unlikely person, in an unlikely place, at an unlikely time and two weeks ago we saw how Jesus…
What the Hell?
Long before I knew about God’s grace I knew about Gods’ wrath. Long before I had encountered a loving God I knew about the fires of hell. Some of those images came from culture and some came from art. All in all I think I prefer Larson to Michelangelo, but I’m that kind of guy.…