I want a submarine. Which is bizarre since I have never really wanted a submarine, except when I was 12. But I want one now. It doesn’t have to be fancy or even yellow, any old sub will do as long as it floats when it is supposed to and doesn’t float when it not…
What Jesus Said About . . . Hate
If we were to ask you to name the opposite of a particular word it would be easy, right? Up, down. Right, left or right, wrong. In, out. Black, white. Happy, sad. What about love? You are thinking that would be easy, hate? Maybe anger? American psychologist, Rollo May stated “Hate is not the opposite…
Growing Older, but not Gracefully
I thought I was going to have to pick Angela up off the floor as she was laughing so hard. She was really enjoying herself at my expense. We were shopping and the clerk at the check-out asked if I was a senior. Hello! So I replied “yes, I'm ninety-two.” Which I thought was an…
A Hooker for Mom of the Year
Last week we started looking at: What Jesus Said About our Emotions, and we’ll be coming back to that next week, this week is all about mom. If you were looking for a contestant for “Mother of the Year” this mom probably wouldn’t have made your list. She was just a hooker, a lady of…
They will know we are Christians by our. . .
Well, it would appear that young William Swinimer has become something of a folk hero in the Christian community. You would think he had been burned at the stake for refusing to renounce his faith instead of being asked not to wear a T-Shirt that some might feel was offensive. Obviously nobody in the Christian…
What Jesus said about Love
Last month our focus was “What Jesus Said About Money” and money is something that affects all of us in one way or another. Some of us because we have it and others of us because we don’t. And last week at the end of the series we had Step Up Sunday and we asked…
Changing Speed Limits
“If higher speed limits are set, people will simply not be exceeding them as much.” That is the rationale behind stop100.ca, a group that is calling on the Ontario Government to increase speed limits to as high as 130 km/h. A spokesman from the Ontario Transportation Ministry stated that in 2008, speed contributed to 21%…
Do Not Misuse Your Money
Everybody ready for tomorrow? April 30th, last day to get your taxes filed for 2011. Or maybe you’ve already filed. Maybe it depends on whether it you are getting money back or paying money out. And taxes are a touchy subject for some folks, Politicians are elected or rejected often based on what they promise…
What we don’t talk about.
Don’t know if you have been following the newspaper accounts of the unfortunate death of Raymond Taavel this past week in Halifax or not. The bare facts of the case are that Taavel tried to break up a fight outside a downtown bar and in the ensuing fight died. The interesting thing about the story…
Don’t Worry Just Trust
How many folks out there were born after 1958? So what do you think of the change in the Old Age Security age? If you missed the last budget the age for eligibility has changed for the Canadian Old Age Security from 65 to 67 and I would suspect that is only the beginning. And…