Do you like your name? And if you do now did you always like your name? As a teenager how did you feel about it? I heard two Jr. High girls talking in a mall once and one asked “Do you like your name?” To which the other replied, “No I hate my name” and…
2012 is almost here!
I got my first look at a 2012 calendar the other day and, to my surprise, it went right up to December 31st! I checked every day in December and nowhere did I see a notation that indicated the “End of the World”. Then I realized that I was looking at “my” calendar and not…
Discover Purity
Things were beginning to escalate. Up to this point Jesus had been criticized locally for some of his teaching but now they were bringing out the big guns. The news of Jesus and his preaching was spreading throughout Palestine; remember last week I mentioned that the news had reached Herod in his palace and Herod…
That’s a Bad Idea
That’s one of the dumbest ideas I’ve heard. In response to a number of deaths in the Valley, related to people mixing alcohol while abusing prescription drugs, the provincial government has responded with . . . an ad campaign. The province wide campaign will include print and television spots warning people about mixing alcohol with…
Discover Injustice
This wasn’t the way it was supposed to end. He was the product of a good family, he had been raised worshipping God, he had followed God’s calling, had done God’s work and had preached God’s message and this wasn’t the way it was supposed to end.In a million years he would never have predicted…
Fall has Fell
Angela and I were marvelling at the autumn colours last week as we drove along the highway. The woods were a kaleidoscope of colours, no two the same. It wasn’t hard to imagine Jack Frost painting each leaf individually. One of the many things we missed during our time in Australia was fall colours. As…
Discover the 12
Discover the 12What a group. In another time and another place they would have killed one another or at least inflicted grave injury on each other. We know some of their stories and others we only know by name. But we do know who they were and even if we can’t name them all we…
Arab Spring? Not so much.
What’s with all the protests? And I guess if I have to ask, then I’m probably part of the problem. The occupy Wall Street and now the Occupy Canada movements have been all over the news and I have heard at least one commentator compare these protests to the, “Arab Spring”. The Arab Spring involved…
Discover Baptism
John the BaptiserThis is how it all began! For thirty years Jesus had lived a life of obscurity as the son of Joseph the carpenter. He had been like all the other boys, had grown into a man and took over his father’s business. And now his ministry was about to begin in earnest. But…
A Life to Live
56 years ago, a life was saved and a world was changed. When 23 year old Joanne Schielbe discovered she was pregnant, she was a student at the University of Wisconsin and she knew two things. She knew she wasn’t in the position to raise her unborn child but she wanted the very best for…