I don’t know if the plan had been for it to be a three hour cruise but it turned into a 66 day nightmare. Louis Jordan had set sail for a few days of fishing but what was supposed to be a routine trip on his 35 foot sailboat named “Angel” turned into anything but. …
The Birth of a Generous Church
I’ve always been intrigued with the Corinthian Church. A church with problems, you don’t have to read very far through the letters addressed to the church to discover that they struggled with “issues”. Theological issues, moral issues, behavioural issues. But in my experience that is the reality of the church. I mean as long as…
Happy Birthday
That year gas sold for 54.3 cents a litre, the five year mortgage rate was 10.6 % and the Canadian dollar was worth about 72 cents American. Some might remember that was the year that the Maple Leaf Gardens were sold, the Paul Bernado trial began, Quebec narrowly decided to remain a part of Canada,…
A Generous Easter
We sometimes refer to the gift of Easter, and when some folks think of Easter gifts they think of new clothes and chocolate. And while those might be Easter gifts they aren’t the gifts we are talking about today. And this message really started on Friday because there couldn’t be a Sunday without a Friday. …
The Cost of Good Friday
Sometimes we hear people refer to the gift of Easter, and on Sunday we are going to reflect on the generosity that made Easter a reality for us, and for the gifts that are extended to us because of the resurrection. But that is Sunday and this is Friday. You see there couldn’t be a…
Happy Almost Birthday
Next week we will be celebrating the 20th Anniversary of our first public service. But our first “non” public service was held 20 years ago this week. In order to be somewhat sure that everything would work on our grand opening, we had a “trial” service on April 2, 1995. And so Stan Wickwire and…
What a Day
What a day! Normally when we think of the Sunday before Easter we focus on what is traditionally referred to as the “Triumphant Entry”. You remember the story, Jesus comes riding into Jerusalem on a young donkey and the crowds come out to greet him, yelling praises and waving Palm Branches which is where the…
But we’re not sinking.
We’ve been having a few leaks in the church building lately & actually that kind of minimizes the issue. If we were a boat we’d be sinking. Ten years ago, as I watched the property being cleared and test pits being dug, I was in no way thinking about the building problems we might be…
Zach in a Tree
The crowd surged toward the road, pushing and shoving to get a better look at the man called Jesus. The city was Jericho and it was wall to wall people, each one of them eager to get a look at the young carpenter from Nazareth that everyone was talking about. It was his first time…
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
It’s here, it’s here! That time of the year that we all look forward to. The time of the year that we realize how lucky we are to live in this wonderful country and we can take the time to reflect on how blessed we are. That’s right... it’s “Tax Time”! What did you think…