It was a party, everyone was there, 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 the…
Poor Me
What a bummer of a day it was. First, when I was at Tim Hortons to finish things up for my Sunday message, I discovered I had lost my USB key that my nearly completed message was stored on. Then, as I made my way in the torrential rain, I pushed the wrong button on…
Discover the Name
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…