What do people really get for all their hard work?  In 2013 that is a line of thought we’d expect to hear.  What do people really get for all their hard work? What do I get out of it?  What do you get out of it?  But it isn’t necessarily a question we’d expect to…

When I had been a Christ follower for a few days my best friends brother asked me what my favorite song was, I wasn’t sure exactly what answer he was looking for but considering he was a pastor I figured that “We’re Here for a Good Time” by Trooper wasn’t the right answer, and so…

That pretty well tied up the morning.  Jesus has been teaching his disciples about a whole range of subjects involving the kingdom of God and now he ties it up with a pretty bow and hands it to those who were listening and basically tells them, “You are responsible for what you are going to…

It is the stuff of nightmares, you’re unable to breath, the pressure is closing in and your last thoughts reflect on what you wished you had done.  Regrets fill your mind, if onlys become your focus and as the darkness increases your struggles decrease until what was you has departed and what is left is…

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…

Back to the Future So this was how it would end.  Public humiliation and possibly a public death for a private act, an act that they had never been intended to be shared with others and certainly not made public.  It had all started out innocently enough, a shared glance, an innocent touching of hands,…

For those of you who have kids and can remember leaving their children alone, whether it was for an hour, an evening or a day you understand that the most important thing that you wanted to them to remember were your last words. “I love you, remember your homework”, “I love you don’t forget to…

The Palestinian sun beat down on the two friends as they listened to John exhort the crowds to repentance.  For the past few weeks they had followed John everywhere he had gone, listened to his message, and watched the crowd’s reaction.  At first they were sure that he was the one that the prophets had…

Are you leaving me too? On December 7th 1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed the people of the United States and referred to the previous day as “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy”.  Most of you know what he was referring to, on December 6th Japan had attacked Pearl Harbour.  There are other days…

Last Sunday was Father’s Day and I would imagine the phone lines were burning up as people were calling their dads. I phoned my dad and I got one phone call and a text from my kids.  And for those whose fathers are no longer with them they probably thought about conversations that they have…