What is with the weather? One day it's beautiful, sunny and warm, the next day it's snowing, cold and miserable. Didn't Old Man Winter get the memo? Spring is supposed to be here! It's hard to believe that just a week ago we had August Temperatures in March.I have discovered in my travels that all…
Please Pray Again
Who are Gordon C. Gladden and Ethel Thomas, and why does someone want me to pray for them? Are they sick? Do they need Jesus? What’s the story? Last week we received a letter from the US, hand addressed to: Cornerstone Wesleyan Church, 1215 Hammonds Plains Rd. Halifax Regional Municipality Canada. No postal code and…
Please Play Again
Well, it’s that time of year again. The time of year that Canadians from coast to coast look forward to with wonder and longing. No not spring, that’s right it’s time for, a drum roll please, r-r-r-roll up the r-r-rim.All over our fair country, Canadians are finishing their coffee and with baited breath rolling up…
Give Me the Moon and Stars and
Darn, I wish I had of thought of that. Quebec resident Sylvio Langevin has filed a lawsuit claiming sole ownership of the Earth. Not to mention all the other planets in our solar system, several of the moons and all of the space that separates them. Langevin’s explanation was that he wanted to collect planets…
Picture This
Who would have thought that Eastman Kodak, the company that invented the hand held camera and brought the world the first pictures from the moon could fail? And yet back in January Kodak filed for bankruptcy protection. For over a hundred years the name Kodak has been synonymous with photography, so what happened? In an…
One Million Dollars
If you were buying a microwave and vacuum cleaner from Wal-Mart, would you try and pay for your $476.00 purchase using a million dollar bill? Probably not, but police say Michael Anthony Fuller insisted he could pay for his vacuum cleaner and microwave oven with a $1-million bill. Fuller insisted the bill was real but…
Staying Close
Have you heard about the family in Ontario that is appealing the water bill that was received by their late father's estate? Apparently, when their dad passed away he left the tap running in the bathroom and it was three weeks and $586.44 worth of water down the drain before his body was found. Three…
Abandon Ship
The Costa Concordia has been the focus of the news over the past few days. If you’ve been hiding under a rock, the Concordia is an Italian cruise ship that ran aground in Tuscany this past weekend. Initial reports point to human error for a tragedy that resulted in the loss of upward of three…
Unseen Blessings
I got up the other day and there was just a light dusting of snow on the ground. When I looked out the window I saw several set of tracks crossing the front lawn. On closer examination, I realized that they were deer tracks where several deer had crossed the yard sometime through the night. …
Priests with Brooms
I’m not quite ready to leave Christmas yet, at least not in the Penn. Did you read about the fight that broke out in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity during the Christmas season? The Church of the Nativity is the church built over the site where some believe Jesus was born. The incident made the…