It was March 21st, 1942 standing in the Terowie Train Station in South Australia, following his retreat from the Philippines that General Douglas MacArthur promised the people of the Philippines "I came out of Bataan and I shall return". And he did. Two and a half years later, after wading ashore on the Island of Leyte,…
The Promise of the Father
In an effort to be environmentally aware, this Father’s Day I’ve decided to embrace the ethos of Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. Most of you know that my Dad passed away a couple of weeks ago, and many of you are aware that I conducted Dad’s funeral and preached at it. As I was working on…
The Promise of Peace
Do you remember praying as a child? Do you remember the words that you prayed? Let’s try it together: “Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep, if I should die before I wake I pray the Lord my soul to take.” In retrospect a little creepy, but…
The Promise of a Helper
It wouldn’t be long, and he knew it. For three years he had taught throughout Israel, for three years he had healed the sick and fed the hungry. For three years he pointed people to the Kingdom of God, but the time was coming, it wouldn’t be long now, and he knew it. The end…
The Promise of Rest
Sometimes you hear people talk about how hard they work and how tired they are. But in 2018 in North America, I’m not sure that we have that completely in perspective. And I understand that there are different types of work and different types of tired. I was in a meeting with a group…
When Only One Believes
“Love and Marriage, Love and Marriage, goes together like a horse and carriage”, at least that’s what the song says. You know as well as I do that isn’t always the reality. Sometimes the horse doesn’t want to pull the carriage, and sometimes the carriage doesn’t want to be pulled. For the last seven…
Love by Honouring
Do you remember TV families when you were a kid? There seemed to be more extended ones then there are now at least when I was watching TV as a kid. You know more families with several generations living under one roof. The Waltons had their Grand Parents living with them, the Beverly Hillbillies had…
Love and Parents
The song, of course, is “Love and Marriage” written by Sammy Cahn and performed by Frank Sinatra in 1955, but the music has been used for a number of television commercials through the years including Ban brand roll-on antiperspirant, Duncan Hines Chocolate Chip cookies, Campbells Soup and Kellogg's Fruit 'n Fibre breakfast cereal. Who would…
The Language of Love
By now you have figured out the song is “Love and Marriage” and it was first recorded by Frank Sinatra in 1955. But that wasn’t the only time it was recorded. Sinatra recorded it again on a different label and it has been covered by Peggy Lee, Dinah Shore, Bing Crosby and in 2010 it…
Sex. . . God’s Wedding Gift
“Love and Marriage, Love and Marriage, go together like a horse and carriage.” The song was written by Sammy Cahn in 1955 and recorded by Frank Sinatra. It was originally used the 1955 television production of Thornton Wilder's “Our Town”. Which happens to be the first High School Drama I was in, not the…