He was there on a whim. He didn’t have to be there, it wasn’t part of his job, but he had heard that something was going to happen, got caught up in the moment, and there he was. He was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. As the mob broke through the…

It was a party, everyone was there, and it was a celebration. The video clip you just watched was from Jesus Christ Super Star 2001, and I love the Palm Sunday scene. It captures the excitement and joy of that day, from the excitement of the crowd to the animosity of the religious leaders and…

Peter just shook his head.  That was all they wanted was money.  Couldn’t they see the bigger picture?  That there was more at stake than just money.  They had just arrived back in town, and before they could even get settled, the church was there with its hand out.  Well, it wasn’t actually the church,…

We don’t know a lot about them as a church.  We don’t know how they worshipped; we don’t know what songs they sang, which translation of the bible they preferred, and we don’t know what the preacher was like. What we do know is how they gave. This is week one of our Stewardship Emphasis…

The Language of Love Last summer Angela and I celebrated our fortieth anniversary with a trip to Europe.  During our three weeks there, we had the opportunity to visit twelve countries, and I marvelled at the fact that so many people were either bilingual or multilingual. If you’re wondering, multilingual means that you speak many…

My oldest niece has a philosophy. Actually, she has many philosophies, but I’m only going to share one with you today. Her philosophy on parenting is this: The government should put birth control in the water, and people would have to pass a parenting test in order to get bottled water. Makes sense to me.…

RR Our Parents If you’re as old as me, then you remember how TV families we grew up with were often more extended ones than there are now, you know, more families with several generations living under one roof. The Waltons had their Grand Parents living with them. The Beverly Hillbillies had Granny, the Munsters…

It was Tolstoy who said, “All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Have you ever stopped to think that both the Old Testament and the New Testament start with the story of a family? And the bible itself is a collection of family stories. There are happy…

If you looked at the bulletin this morning, you would notice that up in the corner is a date. It says January 1, 2023. Now, if we wanted to be precise, it would say AD 2023, but what does AD mean? It is short for the Latin phrase Anno Domini which translated into English is:…

We all know the words; we’ve heard them over and over again. If you close your eyes, you can almost picture the. The Old Testament words that are read each year during Advent. The words of Isaiah, Micah and David which relate to the coming Messiah. They are repeated in sermons and songs and printed…