Have you ever felt like you've been cheated? You know, you were planning on doing something and looking forward to doing it and then somebody else did it for you or before you and you just felt disappointed, like you had been robbed or cheated. But sometimes you find out someone was going to do…
Childlike or Childish
It had started out quite innocently. But then again it usually does. It was just a discussion. They had just been sitting around chewing the fat and somebody had mentioned how important so and so was going to be in heaven. "I don't think so" said Peter "He hasn't got what it takes." Well it…
Go for the Gold: Hockey
Of all the events of the winter Olympics and there are 15 main events in all, plus their sub events, there is one event that seems to spark our country's collective psyche like none other and that is the Men's Hockey. You'll recall that at the winter Olympics in Salt Lake the Americans chose their…
The Blame Game
Oh, stop it already. I was reading my online news the other day and couldn't get over the number of times the word "blamed" was used. A sixty-year-old schoolteacher, who stabbed a man in the throat, blamed the attack on stress he suffered from high school students making fun of his last name. A truck…
Leaving Childish Things Behind
Can you remember being a kid? Can you remember the thrill of each new morning and the wonder of each new day? Can you remember when a week seemed like an eternity, and it was a lifetime between Christmases? Can you remember nursery rhymes and fairy tales, and thinking that all stories had a happy…
What Would Jesus say to Stephen Harper
I discovered as a teenager that if I wanted to begin a conversation with my father I only had to bring up politics, he has very definite views on the subject and isn't afraid to share them. So if the conversation was turning toward subjects that I didn't want to discuss like perhaps my behaviour…
Keeping in Real
Penn of DennDo you remember Steve Fonyo? He was the one-legged athlete who ran across Canada, to raise millions for cancer research in 1984. Fonyo was awarded the Order of Canada in 1985, when he was 18 years old, making him one of the youngest recipients of the order; he said that he had been…
Say What?
Interesting. I remember reading an interview with Observer Music Monthly Magazine where Elton John stated, “From my point of view I would ban religion completely. Organized religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.” Wow, that stings but I wonder if Sir Elton is blind or…
Africa Here I Come
Penn of DennIn three days, I will be in Africa. I will be on a different continent and in a different culture, but I will be doing the same thing I'm doing here and for the same reason. Because, like Bill Hybels, I believe that the local church is the hope of the world. And…
The Mystery of Egypt
So here we are at the end of the first chapter in the Story of Jesus. If you have been with us since the beginning of the advent season then you know that we have been looking at some of the mysteries of Christmas. We started with the mystery of the Virgin Birth and how…