Last month Grand Manan Island lost one of its oldest residents, a man that the media has embraced over the past several years. There have been television specials aired about him and magazine articles written about him. Part of the fascination seems to be that even in his tenth decade, Oliver Green has continued to…
Losing Jesus, Old School Sunday School 2
So, where were you when you lost your kid? Seriously, if you have children you’ve lost one at some point or another. And if you haven’t lost one yet you will. Maybe it was in a grocery store, or on a street, at Disney Land or perhaps at church. But you remember the moment when…
Chill
It suddenly dawned on me how cold it was. I was filling up my car a little while ago and realized that I was cold and not just a little cold either. And then I had an epiphany. It was minus 14 and I was pumping gas with my leather jacket wide open and no…
The Furture is Here!
I can still remember when I got my first calculator that would fit in my pocket. It was in High School and it cost what then seemed like a fortune. But it could do so much, add, multiply, divide etc. It could even do percentages and find the square root of any numbers. At least…
The Gift of the World
So, who got stuff for Christmas? Who gave stuff for Christmas? Was it good stuff? I wonder where the stuff will be a year from now? Christmas is often called the season of giving, and people all over the world give one another gifts, even if they don’t agree with or believe in what Christmas…
Gotta Hate that
You gotta hate it when a plan doesn’t come together. When Jason Best heard that a local theatre was going to be showing the controversial movie “The Interview” he began to see dollar signs. Best said that he heard all the hype about the movie and its limited showing and purchased $650.00 in tickets with…
Sorry George
Well, that learned him. And it certainly acted as a deterrent because he never did it again. But what if he didn’t do it the first time? Just recently a South Carolina resident was exonerated 70 years after he was executed. And that my friends is why I’m opposed to capital punishment. In 1944 George…
A Christmas Without Grace
If you think of Grace at all at Christmas it probably relates to the short prayer that you will say over the dead bird at Christmas Dinner and you probably wouldn’t necessarily think of Amazing Grace as a Christmas song but you can’t really celebrate the Christmas Story without seeing Grace written all through it.…
Cancelling Christmas
It’s funny, not funny ha-ha but funny strange, how quickly we lose interest. This summer when the victims numbered in the hundreds, news about the Ebola crisis was everywhere. There were fund raising efforts happening and you couldn’t open a newspaper or turn on the television without reading or hearing dire predictions. But now, not…
A Christmas Without Miracles
Have you ever heard the phrase “The Magic of Christmas”? Probably, if you google that phrase you get almost 29,000,000 hits. Everything ranging from albums of Christmas music to campaigns to provide toys to underprivileged children, to children’s books, to more inspirational plaques than you can count. It was Norman Vincent Peale who wrote “Christmas…