If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I'd like to do Is to save every day 'Til eternity passes away Just to spend them with you. That is the opening verse of “Time in a bottle”, which is the title of one of my favourite songs. If you are old,…
The Denials of Peter
Most of us can identify with Peter. He was like quicksilver, impossible to pin down. Hot one minute cold the next, ready to defend Jesus to the death and then denying that he even knew him. He as Jesus’ fiercest defender, and his most adamant denier. It was Peter who was the first to acknowledge…
The Prayer of Jabez
Favourite It was just a Jesus fad. Like fish symbols on your car, bumper stickers that said, “Honk if you love Jesus” and “WWJD” or “What Would Jesus do?” bracelets. And while it may have started as simply a fad, it swept across the North American Church, and made the author a small fortune. This…
Life is Like a Motorcycle
As you can tell from the video there are all kinds of motorcycles. Some are really nice and cost a lot of money and some are just basic transportation. But they are all motorcycles, that is they are cycles, and they have motors and for the most part, they do the same job, they get…
The Bible for Dummies
This book contains 6000 years of recorded history. It tells the stories of the Jewish people, of the Messiah Jesus, and of the early church. It contains intrigue and romance, love and betrayal. It’s made up of flowing poetry, gripping prose and soaring apocalyptical prophecies. It’s not just one book, it’s a collection of many…
Surrender Your Speech
It didn’t see that way at the time, but after I got older, I realized how cool my summer jobs were. When other kids were flipping burgers and scooping ice-cream, I was seeking adventure on the high seas, well at least on the seas. I had my first summer job at sea when I was…
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, A Matter of Good vs Evil
Well, that was weird! This summer our theme is “A Few of my Favourite Things.” And the preaching team is preaching some of their favourite messages from years gone by. This message goes back to September 2001. My theme for the first few weeks of the fall was “BCC Prime Time. BCC is what we…
Green Eggs and Ham
(Read from Green Eggs and Ham pages 1-16) Do you know the story? I bet you do. It's one of Dr. Seuss’ greatest works. “Green Eggs and Ham”. You know I hate that book. Didn't always hate it though, no sir when I was a kid I loved Green Eggs and Ham, and when our…
No, I Won’t!
He was half in the bag when it all began. His name was Xerxes, and he was the King of Persia. If we pull up a map here, we discover that Persia is located in this area making it modern day Iran. However, we are told that when this story happened Xerxes’ kingdom stretched from…
Lydias Journey
She was a successful businesswoman, actually she was a successful business owner, and that was virtually unheard of in the time and society she lived in. Remember this was 2000 years ago in a culture that was slightly male centred; actually, it was very male centred. Females weren’t exactly chattel, but they weren’t exactly equals…