We all know the Story; we’ve heard it over and over again. If you close your eyes you can almost picture them, Mary, Great with Child, on a donkey. Wow while that may be an accurate description I’m not sure that any woman ever, would appreciate being described that way. Ranks right up there with,…
Story of Royalty
The Story of Royalty We all know the Story; we’ve heard it over and over again. If you close your eyes you can almost picture them. Riding their camels across the desert at night, the moon highlighting their royal robes and crowns against the stark desert sand. It is a very familiar part of the…
#abbafather
#abbafather Have you ever heard someone pray using the phrase “Mother/Father God”? It happens, every once in a while, I’ll be in a situation where a mainline pastor is praying and they will use the phrase because they feel it will be less offensive than “Father God” or sometimes I think they are either trying…
#rememberme
#rememberme. In 2013 the British National Army Museum voted it "Britain's Greatest Battle". If you are thinking perhaps “D-Day and Normandy” you’re close, that placed second. Or maybe you drifted back further to the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, Waterloo placed third. Most of us would be hard pressed to come up with the correct…
#icandoallthings
#turntheothercheek
Is it just me or does the US presidential election seem nastier than usual? The interesting thing, or disturbing thing, or sad thing, use your own adjective, is that both Candidates would say they were at least brought up in the Christian tradition. When asked about her faith Mrs. Clinton responded with a trinity of…
#castthefirststone
Have you ever had a song or a part of a song stuck in your head? You know like, . . . “Mahna Manhna.” You’re welcome. Back in the early eighties I heard a song once, only once as far as I can remember. It was in the kitchen of our family home on Golden…
#alloftheworld
Do you remember when your kids were teens and you would leave them at home alone, maybe for an hour or a weekend? If so then you know that the most important thing that you wanted them to remember were your last words. “I love you, remember your homework”, “I love you don’t forget to…
God Loves Our Worship
In all my years of ministry I haven’t found anything that can make church people as cranky as the music. Seriously. Thom Ranier a church growth and health consultant wrote “The comment ‘someone complained about the music at my church’ is a universal phenomenon of our age.” If you’ve been with us over the past…
God Loves Children
It was just about this time of year 22 years ago. We had just moved to Bedford to start what would eventually become Cornerstone and I had to fly to Colorado to attend what was called “Church Planters Boot Camp”, an intensive week long training session that included men and women from around North America.…