Of all the events of the winter Olympics and there are 15 main events in all, plus their sub events, there is one event that seems to spark our country's collective psyche like none other and that is the Men's Hockey. You'll recall that at the winter Olympics in Salt Lake the Americans chose their…

Can you remember being a kid? Can you remember the thrill of each new morning and the wonder of each new day? Can you remember when a week seemed like an eternity, and it was a lifetime between Christmases? Can you remember nursery rhymes and fairy tales, and thinking that all stories had a happy…

I discovered as a teenager that if I wanted to begin a conversation with my father I only had to bring up politics, he has very definite views on the subject and isn't afraid to share them. So if the conversation was turning toward subjects that I didn't want to discuss like perhaps my behaviour…

So here we are at the end of the first chapter in the Story of Jesus. If you have been with us since the beginning of the advent season then you know that we have been looking at some of the mysteries of Christmas. We started with the mystery of the Virgin Birth and how…

Everybody loves a good mystery and the Christmas story if full of mysteries, full of whys and hows and whos. If you've been with us over the past few weeks you know the theme we have chosen for this advent season is "The Mysteries of Christmas"We started with the Virgin birth. One of the main…

Mystery of BethlehemThe theme we have chosen for this advent season is "The Mysteries of Christmas". Last week we looked at the Mystery of the Virgin birth, how God Almighty the creator of the Universe stepped into the stream of human history to introduce his Son to the world. In that message we discovered that…

The doctor turns to his patient after examining her and says "Perhaps you'd like to have your husband with you." To which she replies "I'm not married" "Well then maybe your boyfriend" the doctor says."I don't have a boyfriend either." The woman says.So the doctor gets up and walks over to the window and just…

She was a little steamed, actually she was a lot ticked and who could blame her. Sure she had been the one who had invited the company over, but it wasn't just her home, I mean her sister could do a little bit to help out. Instead she just sat there staring up at their…

It was almost as if it had never happened. Almost as if it had been a dream, a bad dream, but just a dream. Everything was exactly the way it had been before. Jesus spoke about the kingdom, they walked everywhere they went and did lunch together. It was hard to believe that a month before…

Twenty years ago I read a statement in the "preacher's magazine." And it said, "The church is like Noah's ark, if it wasn't for the judgement on the outside, you'd never be able to stand the smell on the inside." I chuckled, I wrote it down, I filed it, but later I went back and…