Fear will be your enemy.  And that statement seems to set the tone very early in the movie.  If there seems to be one overriding emotion in the movie “Frozen” it is fear.  The King and Queen are fearful for their daughters and so the girls are separated and grow up alone.  Elsa is afraid…

A year ago the word Frozen referred to food that was in your freezer and “Let it Go” was something you told you four year old when you wanted them to release their grip on a toy or their sibling or when you were counselling someone over some hurt from the past. That all changed…

We don’t know the circumstances of her life, or of her social situation.  We only meet her because of a chance encounter that she had with Jesus.  Jesus and his friends were on their way to Galilee from Judea and on the way they passed by a village in Samaria and while the apostles went…

I love the distance between my birthday and Christmas, it’s perfect.  It divides the year in half, when I was a kid I knew that I would get gifts in June and then again in December.  I always felt sorry for the kids whose birthdays were close to Christmas, not just in December but in…

He knocked on the door wondering how he’d be received when the door was opened.   His name was Onesimus and he was a slave who had run away and was now returning, returning to what he wasn’t sure.  We don’t know a whole lot about what happened between the time Onesimus had escaped from slavery…

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…