So, an unidentified woman in Toronto has lodged a complaint with the Police because a cosmetic surgery procedure that she had performed had gone wrong and resulted in an infection. It was only after she had to undergo corrective surgery that she made the complaint. And you almost feel bad for the lady until you…
Created to Connect
How many of you grew up with Lego? Not me, I had the little soft red building blocks when I was a kid. Other kids had Lego, but I had these little red building blocks. They looked like bricks but they only connected at two points and those points were square, so everything you built…
The Saint Who Keeps on Giving
They may have found Santa Claus and he’s not at the North Pole. Turkish archaeologists believe they have found the remains of Saint Nick, not the Saint Nick who came down the chimney last Christmas but the Saint Nick that Saint Nick is based on. Nicholas was the bishop of Myrna in what is now Turkey…
Charting the Decline
Over 50 dead and more than 500 injured in what has been described as “The deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. History.” When I was a teen that distinction was held by the University of Texas tower shootings when 16 people were killed and 31 were injured by Charles Whitman in 1966. After fifty years…
God Haters: John 15:18-25
If you remember reading the August 22 1949 edition of Time Magazine then you would remember seeing a young Elizabeth Taylor on the cover and various articles that almost sound current. Under the National section, for example, there was a little bit of a scandal in the white house. Really? A scandal in the White…
No Mulligans
I read an interesting article in the Halifax Metro the other day. The title was “Euthanasia requests not met in Nova Scotia”. The gist of the article was that of the 64 requests for assisted suicide in the first six months of this year, only 24 had been acted on. Of the remaining 2/3’s, some…
Hidden Treasure
It is a serendipitous story, which is a story about serendipity. Serendipity, isn’t that a great word? It is probably one of my favourite words. You know what serendipity means right? Serendipity means an unexpected discovery. You know when you are looking for something and you find something else. You know you drop the remote…
That makes sense!
I was getting ready for my day when I noticed how grey my hair and beard had become. Instead of looking like a pirate, now I looked like Santa Claus.As I wondered how that could possibly have happened without me noticing, I remembered something I was told almost thirty years ago. Roy Corey, a member…
It’s the end of the World: Details to Follow
It’s the end of the world as we know it. Really? There are certain events that spark certain responses from Christians as a direct consequence of the scripture that we read earlier. Let’s go back to the last part of that scripture: Mark 13:7-8 And you will hear of wars and threats of wars, but…
Making Memories
I subscribe to Yogi Berra's theory that if you don't attend other people's funerals, they won't come to yours. With that in mind, whenever I can, I attend the funeral of Wesleyan Pastors on our district.Last weekend the staff from Cornerstone made their way to the chapel at Kingswood University in Sussex to say good-bye…