It’s a Wonderful Life (Begin with Clip from “It’s a Wonderful Life” scene where George meets Clarence and wishes he had never been born” It’s a Wonderful Life has consistently been ranked in the top 100 movies of all times, it has been called the number one inspirational film as well as one of the…

Bah, Humbug,  Scrooge is like Bond, everyone has a favorite.  For some there is no Scrooge like Alistair Sim, he was the actor who portrayed Scrooge in the clip we just saw. He also reprised the role in an Oscar winning short film in 1970.  Maybe it is Albert Finney in the 1970 film simply…

That time of the year is coming again, you know when we can sit around our television sets and watch people’s hopes, dreams and aspirations crushed and ground into the dust.  It was advertising guru Roy Williams who wrote “Every dream of the future is a seed. But until your dream falls into the ground…

He just kept right on smiling. It didn’t matter what they did or what they said he just kept right on smiling. They were American army officers and he was their Korean house boy, and for whatever reason they gave him a hard time about everything, he wasn’t fast enough, he wasn’t polite enough, he…

The year was 1863 and the US Civil War was in its second year.   Historians tell us that at that point if you were keeping score the Confederate Army was ahead. The War had shifted its focus from the Southern States and General Robert E Lee was embarking on his second Invasion of the North…

QRC: Temptation We’ve all been there, at one time or another.  Standing on the very cusp of doing what we know is wrong.  And we have to decide; will we do what we know we shouldn’t do or do we make the right decision.  And each of us is tempted by something different in our…

QRC Intro They are everywhere.  You can find them in magazines, in newspapers, on bill boards, stores and restaurants.  You know what I’m talking about those funky little square bar codes that are showing up everywhere.  They are called Quick Response Codes and they were first developed by a subsidiary of Toyota in 1994 for…

Over the past four weeks I’ve been speaking about what Jesus said about our behaviour, and if you were looking for a specific list of what we can do and can’t do you’ve been disappointed.    Jesus didn’t provide a detailed list but instead insisted that our relationship with God would lead to proper behaviour.  And…

Video from (Peggy’s Cove) If you aren’t familiar with the video shot, then I’m not sure what to say.  I took that a month ago while we were on our annual pilgrimage to Peggy’s cove, and while I preparing to take some of these phone photos I noticed the lady down on the rocks.  If…

What Jesus Said about Our Behaviour:  Follow Me Last month I received an email from a man who is planning on carrying a cross across Nova Scotia.  He didn’t tell me how big the cross was going to be but I’m assuming that it isn’t going to be a small cross.  And to tell the…