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…

If you follow me on Facebook, that’s assuming that you’ve read the terms and conditions for Facebook and agreed to them, then you might have seen some of my posts from the Babylonian Bee, which is a Christian Satire site, recently this one struck me as fitting.   BOSTON, MA—Local man Justin Fuller immediately fell…

Click here, accept this, check here.  You’ve seen the words.  And they all signify the same thing, that you have read and accepted the terms and conditions of something.   This is week two of our Terms and Conditions series.  Last week we defined Terms and Conditions this way: Terms and Conditions: are rules by which one…

Until 1991 I don’t think I ever heard the words “Terms and Conditions”, at least not together, and then I installed my first software package and I had to “Click here”.   And over the past 27 years, I've probably clicked on a million Terms and Conditions boxes, I just made up that number.  And…

Dad told me that once as a teen he was with his father on their fishing boat when the weather turned nasty.  Dad was whining and complaining about how rough it was and how he wished that they had of stayed home instead of going fishing.   And his father told him, “you wouldn’t want…