I don’t know if there is a worse taunt when you are a kid than being called a scaredy cat. Having my friends think I was afraid to do something was a major embarrassment for me as a child and probably got me into more trouble and has caused me to shed more blood than…
Really?
I was thinking about an article I read a while back about a man in Kansas City, Kansas by the name of Wesley Fitzpatrick. It seemed that Fitzpatrick applied for a temporary restraining order against a female whom he said was stalking him. Fitzpatrick claimed that she was making him “scared and depressed and in…
But, you must Believe
With one word everything changes, I love you. . . but, I would. . . but, You’re healthy. . . but. It’s only a small word, it only has three letters however that one word is the hinge that swings a statement in another direction. For example, Jeffrey Fry wrote “Integrity is not everything, but…
The Power of the Spoken Word
Earlier this month I ate at the Cunard Restaurant in Miramichi, and it was great. I was on a district trip with two other pastors and one of them mentioned the Cunard. He had never been there, but as a teenager he had watched Hockey Night in Canada and the Cunard Restaurant was a sponsor. …
But, Easter
It started as a day marked with mourning, but today it is a day of celebration. It started as a day when the forces of Evil celebrated victory, but today it is a seen as the day when goodness and grace triumphed. It started as a day when people paused to remember what man did…
Holy Day or Holiday?
I was kind of curious about where he was going. I heard a DJ on the radio talking about the long weekend that was coming up and how it wasn't just another long weekend. This was a very special long weekend because of what it represented. This is getting interesting, I thought. Then he added…
But, Good Friday
It was supposed to be a day marked with celebration, but it was a day defined by tragedy. It was supposed to be a day friends gathered together, but it was a day that friends scattered. It was supposed to be a day when people paused to remember what God had done for man, but…
But, Even Now
Where is he? Where? Where is he? How many times had she asked that question over the past four days? Her only brother had come down with some mysterious virus and nobody could do anything for him. Well nobody except for their friend Jesus. How many times had he reached out his hand and the…
After the But . . . Here, Near and Far
It’s a small word, only 3 letters, however when I looked up its definition in Collins English Dictionary, I found not one, but eight different ways the word could be used. It can be a conjunction, a preposition, an adverb, a pronoun and a noun. The word of course is “But” and if you have…
Act Your Age
Emile Ratelband doesn’t feel that who he is lines up with what his birth certificate says about him. And so last year he set out to have his birth certificate changed to reflect his reality of who he actually was. And the courts denied his request. Ratelband didn’t want his birth certificate changed to reflect his preferred gender,…