When you think of a treasure, what crosses your mind? Perhaps something buried by a pirate? When I was a boy, when I thought about treasure, I thought about Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver from Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel “Treasure Island”. By the way, Long John Silver was the ship’s cook, not the ship’s…
I Am the Good Shepherd
I am the Shepherd "I am." Over the past six weeks, we have been looking at the various times that Jesus describes himself using the phrase "I am." And so we have examined Jesus words and meaning when he said "I am the way," "I am the truth," "I am the life," "I am the…
I am the Bread of Life
When I was a child, our family lived in Germany and the bread was dark and coarse. When we moved home to Canada my image of bread became my Grandmother’s home-made bread enjoyed warm with homemade strawberry jam and a slice of old cheddar cheese. During my teen years, bread was used as a figure…
I am the Gate
“I am.” That’s what Jesus said. “I am.” Over the next few weeks we will be looking at the various times that Jesus used the phrase “I am” to metaphorically describe himself. “I am the Way”, “I am the truth”, “I am the resurrection”, “I am the life”, “I am the bread of life”, “I…
I am the Light of the World
Were you scared of the dark when you were a little kid? Maybe you are still scared of the dark. Dark wasn’t my favourite when I was a kid. And back then as a kid, you even got to be out after dark. And until I was 16, we lived in the sticks and when…
I AM . . .
Do you have a favourite musical group? No doubt it has changed through the years. When I was a young teen, I liked Herman's Hermits. Then I graduated into a number of Canadian Bands, BTO, Five Man Electrical Band, Trooper, April Wine. When I went to Bible college, most of those groups were frowned upon…
The Greatest Commandment
Wow, it’s 2021. I don’t know that there has ever been a new year as anticipated as this one. Considering the year we just came through not sure that that says a lot about 2021, or 2020. Kind of like the guy who was banging his head against a wall and someone asked him why…
Even Though. . .
Have you ever argued with God? Or complained to God? Have you ever wanted to know why He did what He did and why He didn’t do what he didn’t do? Perhaps you were simply offering him advice on how to run the world. Not necessarily the entire universe but the world, or at least…
The Christmas Story
I was sitting by the fire thinking about all that Jesus had been teaching us. Some of what he said made complete sense, but there were still things that baffled me, and other things that I outright disagreed with. We were on our way to Nain and there was the usual group tagging along. “Peter…
Advent. . . Hope
I can think of nothing sadder than a life lived without hope. A hope that regardless of how bad things might seem, that things could get better. That ultimately every night has a dawn, every storm has an end, and every mountain has a peak. Author and preacher Max Lucado writes, “We need hope. There's…