I am the Resurrection

Where is he?  Where?  Where is he?  How many times had she asked that question over the past four days.  Her only brother had come down with some mysterious virus and nobody could do anything for him.  Well nobody except for their friend Jesus.  How many times had he reached out his hand and the…

I am the Life

It’s funny, I don’t have a favorite German Chancellor or a favourite African dictator but I do have a couple of favorite American Presidents.  I have enjoyed reading the quiet wit of Calvin Coolidge, don’t know what he was like as a president but he said some quotable things.  Although it happened when I was…

I am the Truth

6 years ago Al Gore was celebrated for his quasi-documentary “An Inconvenient Truth”  Almost fifty years after the event people are still looking for the truth surrounding the assassination of John Kennedy and the suicide of Marilyn Munroe, there are those who are convinced that we have never been told the truth about 9/11 and…

I Am the Way

I am!  What a statement.  I am.  When I was growing up I used to watch Popeye and you may remember that he used to say “I yam, what I yam”  And Popeye was simply stating his acceptance of himself.   And that’s not a bad thing, being comfortable in your own skin.  That doesn’t mean…

Did He Really Say That?

Man on the Street video about Jesus. So who do you think Jesus was? And more importantly: who do you think Jesus is today?   You obviously think something about Jesus you are sitting in church on Sunday Morning.  So who is Jesus for you?  Usually Jesus gets good reviews, even when people don’t think he…

God was His Father, But Joseph Was His Dad

(Video for Luke I am your father) “I am your father”  probably one of the greatest scenes in movie history. For most of us we know who our dad is, or at least we assume we do.  My father used to tell me that I belonged to the Milk man in Chatham NB, he said…

What Jesus Said about Self Love

This is week five of our “What Jesus Said About Emotions” series. And emotions are a part of each one of us.  God created us as emotional beings, within the first three chapters of the story we watch the first couple as they experience loneliness, joy, love, envy, fear and shame.  And we are all…

What Jesus Said about Joy

Does anyone remember Balki’s “Dance of Joy”?  A few people, does anyone remember Balki and his cousin Larry?  The sitcom “Perfect Strangers”?   Does anyone know what I’m talking about?  I feel so old.  And so for all of you who missed this great theatre from yesteryear, here is the dance of Joy in its purest…

What Jesus said about. . . Fear

What Jesus Said About Fear So, what are you afraid of?  What it is that sends Goosebumps up and down your spine, brings your heart to your throat and makes you want to throw up just thinking about it?  Snakes, heights, spiders, enclosed spaces?  Back in the day one of my favourite shows was “Fear…

What Jesus Said About . . . Hate

If we were to ask you to name the opposite of a particular word it would be easy, right?  Up, down.  Right, left or right, wrong.  In, out.  Black, white.  Happy, sad.  What about love?  You are thinking that would be easy, hate?  Maybe anger?   American psychologist, Rollo May stated “Hate is not the opposite…