I recently read that Gmail has incorporated a "Second thought" button into their toolkit. We are all familiar with the "undo function" in Word and PowerPoint, where you can undo your last action, but the Gmail application allows you to take back your words, if you are quick enough. Once you hit Send in Gmail,…
A Sailor’s Tale
September 19 is International Talk Like a Pirate Day, honest it really is www.talklikeapirateday.com. And it seemed like too good an opportunity to pass up. This is the a repeat of the message I preached last time it fell on a Sunday. We started with a clip from the Veggie Tales Jonah Movie which I…
Shiver Me Timbers!
Penn of DennArggh, shiver me timbers! September 19th be International Talk Like a Pirate Day, and bilge rats from all four corners of the globe will celebrate by talking like Long John Silver and Jack Sparrow. I wouldn't be lying, would I? For nigh on ten years land lubbers have been talking the way it…
Thou Shalt Not Cuss
It really annoys me when I hear cussing in public. It's like they are not only rude they are stupid as well, they don't seem to understand that their conversation can be heard not only by the people they are talking to but by everyone within earshot.Kind of like when restaurants used to allow smoking,…
That’s Stupid
Penn of DennPeople who call themselves Christians can be so stupid at times. Have you heard about the church in Florida that is planning a Qur'an burning? Seriously, the Dove World Outreach Center church is planning a "Burn a Qur'an Day" to commemorate the 9th anniversary of 9/11. Seriously! The pastor, Terry Jones, has been…
Those Who Accept the Kingdom are like. . .
I have a confession to make and I hope you don't think less of me after I'm done; That's right I love country music. I love listening to the new artists like Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood and Dean Brody and I love listening to the outlaws from the seventies like Willie and Waylon and Merle…
Oops
Oops, or something like that. If you've been following the local news you've probably heard Irving Oil mentioned a time or two lately. In early August, they discovered their high-test gasoline wasn't actually high test, so for a week they sold it at the same price as regular. Then they discovered the problem had been…
8 The Kingdom of Heaven is Like a Landowner
The story is told that a man once encountered Abraham Lincoln walking down the street with his two young sons and both boys were howling. "What's wrong with the boys Abe?" the man asked. "What's wrong with the boys is what's wrong with the world" Lincoln responded "I have three chestnuts and they both want…
The More the Merrier?
I don't want to say, "I told you so. . .but!" Recently at a national convention, a committee of the Green Party of Canada, voted to send a motion to the full party for it to be debated and voted on. The motion will call for the decriminalization of . . . you waiting for…
7 The Kingdom of Heaven is like Wheat and Weeds
When I was in High School we did the musical "The Music Man" and in that play is the line by the lead character Professor Harold Hill, the Music Man himself, "what we have here is trouble, trouble right here in River City." In the musical Hill tells the people the trouble "starts with a…