This is week six of our health check series and for me it represents the most frightening topic that I've spoken about since the New Year, and that is optical health. Being very honest this morning the thought of losing my sight is frightening. I tend to be a procrastinator about most things, if my…
A Healthy Mouth
This is week five of our Health Check series, and we've looked at a Healthy Body, Healthy Appetites and a Healthy Heart and so this week we are looking at "A Healthy Mouth" It really isn't fair! When I think of Doctors there are a whole slew in the media who come to mind. From my…
A Healthy Heart
(Sound file of heart beat)Your heart, do you ever stop and think about your heart? It's pretty important. One of the pivotal points when you are expecting is when you can first hear your child's heartbeat. And in all the murder and mayhem shows on TV what's the first thing they do when they discover…
Dead or Alive
Good, you're sitting down, I have some bad news for you, some of you are dead. Now it's not as bad as it sounds, it might be reversible, if we catch it in time.The title and theme of our services from now until the middle of February is "Health Check" and our focus will be…
A Healthy Body
So, how do you feel about your body? Strange question isn't it? Most of us would rather not think about our bodies and if we do we probably don't think very complementary things. It's too fat or too skinny, too short or too tall. Bumpy, lumpy or just plain ugly kind of like the guy…
Well it's 2011, who would have thunk it. And I would suspect that there have been a pile of New Year's resolutions made in the past 2 days and if the truth was known there have probably been a pile of New Year's resolutions broken in the past 2 days.We have probably all verbally or…
The Other Gifts of Christmas
When I say Christmas, what do you think? The birth of Christ, Joy to the world, peace on earth and good will to men? Poppycock, when I say Christmas you think: presents, gifts, goodies. For all of the noble and pure motives that we claim we'd be awful disappointed if there wasn't anything under the…
The Gift Received, Christmas Eve
Well tomorrow is the big day. I guess it's too late to ask if you are ready. Do you have all your gifts bought and wrapped, the tree decorated, the baking done? Hey don't give me dirty looks, I'm just asking. More than at any other time of the year people are thinkin about gifts.…
The Gift of Christmas 2 Preparing the Gift
The quest for the perfect gift. Some of you know what I mean and others, you haven't got a clue. There are some folks who every gift is a challenge, to get not just a gift but to get the right gift. The gift that says just the right thing at just the right price.…
The Promise of the Gift
When you think of Christmas what comes to your mind? Before you answer let me tell you a story I heard many years ago. It happened in a grade four Sunday School Class and the teacher was asking the class a question, I don't know what the context was or why she was asking it,…