There is normally a sense of urgency to people’s last words.  Last week as we finished up our Down the Road Series I mentioned that the last letter of Paul’s that we have a copy of is 2 Timothy, and the scholars tell us that it may have been written just weeks before Paul’s execution. …

A hanging always attracts  a crowd.  And I would suspect that a stoning was no different.  That’s where our journey began back in June when we discovered Saul of Tarsus witnessing the brutal execution of one of the leaders of the early church.  A man named Stephen.  We don’t know that Saul actually threw any…

Have you ever been in a really great storm?  I mean a doozy of a storm?  Do you remember when Juan swept through in September 03?  I woke up in the middle of the night when the power went out, it actually flickered and the printer cycled on and off and woke me up.  I…

You eat what you kill!  That was what I was told when I started selling for Saint John Toyota in 1985.  Angela and I had spent most of the previous year in upstate New York on staff at a Wesleyan church and that didn’t work out the way we anticipated and so we had returned…

It wasn’t exactly the end to a perfect day.  Paul, Luke and a colleague by the name of Silas have been travelling throughout the Roman Empire starting new churches and introducing people to Christ.  Everything seemed to be going well and then the wheels came off the wagon.  Figuratively speaking of course, I don’t think…

The two men stood on the wharf, looking across the shimmering water, seeing their final destination only in their hearts.  They were about to begin a journey that would not only change them, but would change the world.  One was known throughout the church, the other, some people knew his name.  He was a relative…

Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future.  Those words were penned over a hundred years ago by the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde but they could very well have been written about a young man named Saul who came to a pivotal point in his life where he would have to choose to…

It would appear that he had everything going for him. He was one of the leaders of the early church. He was a person of influence and integrity and he had the respect and honour of his colleagues and peers.  Think about it, how would you like to be described as “a person full of…

Well here we are, week three of our look at the Prodigal Son and the rest of the story. And all three of our weeks have their beginning in Luke 15:11 To illustrate the point further, Jesus told them this story: “A man had two sons.” In week one we looked at the younger son,…

You have all felt the feeling or have heard of someone who has.  “The dreaded morning after the night before.”  You hadn’t intended on staying at the party that long, you knew that you had to get up the next morning and yet there it was.  As some people say, “It is what it is.” …