Over the past few weeks we’ve talked about Whoville in relation to Dr. Suess' classic Horton Hears a Who, but the reality is, that when most people hear the term “Whoville” that isn’t the book they think of.  Instead, they think of Little Cindy Lou Who and her family from Seuss’ 1957 Classic how the…

He had lived through the war and the war had shaped who he was.  It had also shaped how he saw others.  In particular, it shaped his view of the Japanese.  Between Pearl Harbour and the war that followed he had very little time or use for those who called Japan their home. But in…

Back in November the worship team introduced the song “Who You Say I Am”, maybe you remember.  And as the team was singing, I had an epiphany.   An epiphany is defined as: a moment of sudden revelation or insight. And maybe epiphany is a little strong but considering that many Christians celebrate today as “Epiphany”,…

Well, here we are about 2000 years down the road from that first church.  I’m sure if Peter and John had of ever discussed the future of the Christian church that they could not have envisioned what it would be like 2000 years later. I mean 2000 years!  The Jewish religion wasn’t even 2000 years…

Here we are it’s Christmas Eve, which brings us to the end of our A Christmas Carol Series at Cornerstone.  Through the past four weeks we’ve been using Dickens’ most famous story as a frame work for the Christmas story.  If you aren’t familiar with A Christmas Carol, it is divided up into five chapters…

It was December 19th, 1843 and the Christmas Novella that Dickens had been working on for six weeks was finally released, to immediate success. By Christmas Eve all 6000 copies of A Christmas Carol had been sold out.    And they weren’t cheap, the little book sold for five shillings which we are told is the…

He had become a celebrity, there was no other word for it, he had toured with his wife across the United States and Canada and crowds flocked to see him.  During his time in the U.S., because of his celebrity status, he was granted an opportunity to address Congress on international copyright issues.   As a…

As a child he was a voracious reader and his favourite book was The Arabian Nights, which he read over and over again.  For a while his family was able to afford to send him to a private school where he flourished, but that was short lived.   He was twelve years old when his…

When Angela and I first got married she told me that one of the things that she did with her dad each Christmas was to watch A Christmas Carol. But it had to be the Alastair Sim one from 1951, and not the colourized version either. The movie was first released in the UK under…

This is week six of our Terms and Condition series here at Cornerstone and since early October we looked at some of the terms and conditions that show up in the Bible.   And each week we have reviewed our definition of Terms and Conditions, Terms and Conditions are Rules by which one must agree…