Up until yesterday the name Andre Levingston didn’t mean anything to me. If I had heard it before, and I probably had, it had never registered with me. And then I saw Levingston in an interview with ATV news anchor Steve Murphy and I kind of liked him. In case you are like me, Levingston…
Getting what we don’t deserve
It really seemed as if he had gotten away with it. For almost forty years Clarence Moore had lived as a free man after escaping from a North Carolina prison where he was serving an eleven year sentence for larceny. But last week the sixty-six year old fugitive voluntarily turned himself in. It seems that…
A Sense of Entitlement?
Sometimes we hear folks describe the youth of today as having a “sense of entitlement”, but that really isn’t anything new. I’m sure Adam and Eve had that discussion about their children and Socrates must have had that in mind over two thousand years ago when he wrote “Children are now tyrants, not the servants…
Cruise of a Lifetime
I don’t know if the plan had been for it to be a three hour cruise but it turned into a 66 day nightmare. Louis Jordan had set sail for a few days of fishing but what was supposed to be a routine trip on his 35 foot sailboat named “Angel” turned into anything but. …
Happy Birthday
That year gas sold for 54.3 cents a litre, the five year mortgage rate was 10.6 % and the Canadian dollar was worth about 72 cents American. Some might remember that was the year that the Maple Leaf Gardens were sold, the Paul Bernado trial began, Quebec narrowly decided to remain a part of Canada,…
Happy Almost Birthday
Next week we will be celebrating the 20th Anniversary of our first public service. But our first “non” public service was held 20 years ago this week. In order to be somewhat sure that everything would work on our grand opening, we had a “trial” service on April 2, 1995. And so Stan Wickwire and…
But we’re not sinking.
We’ve been having a few leaks in the church building lately & actually that kind of minimizes the issue. If we were a boat we’d be sinking. Ten years ago, as I watched the property being cleared and test pits being dug, I was in no way thinking about the building problems we might be…
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
It’s here, it’s here! That time of the year that we all look forward to. The time of the year that we realize how lucky we are to live in this wonderful country and we can take the time to reflect on how blessed we are. That’s right... it’s “Tax Time”! What did you think…
Here comes the Sun!
Have you noticed lately how much more daylight we are seeing. Each day it's getting light earlier and staying light longer and as Martha would say: That's a good thing.Spring is not only an awesome time of the year but it's also a great metaphor for life. No matter how dark, cold and long the…
Praying or Playing?
A while back I read a story that said 58% of sport fans pray that their team will win. I'm not sure what to make of that, other than wild speculation concerning the spiritual condition of Toronto Maple Leaf fans. 58 %, so how would, or more importantly how should, God respond to those prayers?…