I love a good story, and I love a good story teller.  My favourite music through the years has been folk and country, because each song is a story.  That’s why Harry Chapin and Tom T Hall have been consistent favourites of mine, and why I love Gordy Lightfoot’s Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.  And…

In 1983 I witnessed a disaster of a wedding.  Angela and I were standing up with another couple that we had gone to Bible College with and it was like the pastor just didn’t care.  He dropped papers, fumbled through his readings and forgot names. It was horrendous.  And as a young pastor I determined…

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 Hieronymus Bosch, but I’m that kind of…

He had his entire life ahead of him, and he knew exactly how it would play out. He was smart and handsome, he had everything going for him and he knew it.  If there had of a been a yearbook, he would have been the one voted most likely to succeed. And then he wasn’t.…

You ever feel like just when things are going well that the Government comes along and wants everything you have?  If it’s not property tax that the HRM wants, then it’s sales tax the province wants or income tax the federal government wants.  Which have you heard, the CRA has adopted a new logo?  It…

The biggest cop out with Christians for their spiritual failure and the most common excuse for deliberate sinfulness are these words "I'm not under the law but under grace!" and with those eight words we seek to absolve ourselves of any spiritual responsibility we might have for our behaviour.  And when we are confronted about…

Evangelism.  It is not just a good idea; it is a matter of survival.  Without evangelism, there would be no Christianity, because without evangelism there would be no Christians. If we read the various accounts of Jesus’ last words to the apostles, we discover that he left no doubt at all that Christianity was something…

Two men, the number is both important and irrelevant.  It is important because there had to be two, one would not have been enough.  It’s irrelevant because those two men represent every human being who has ever lived.  Two men, the number is both important and irrelevant. The story is a familiar one to those…

What are you afraid of? What sends shivers down your spine or keeps you up at night? Marie Curie wrote, “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” Perhaps if she had of feared radiation a little…

I don’t know if there is a worse taunt when you are a kid than being called a scaredy cat.  Having my friends think I was afraid to do something was a major embarrassment for me as a child and probably got me into more trouble and has caused me to shed more blood than…