When you stop and think about it, it’s the little things, the minutiae. I can get my head around the miracles in the New Testament, miracles are by definition miracles. You either believe them or you don’t. So I don’t struggle with how Jesus fed the five thousand that was a God thing, a miracle…
Who is that Man?
Who Was on the Cross In 1950, Japanese Film Director Akira Kurosawa produced a movie that through the years has appeared on any number of lists of great movies. Maybe you are familiar with it, the name of the movie is Rashomon, and the premise of the movie has been used in movies, novels and…
No Overbooking in Heaven
On my way home from Indiana a couple of weeks ago I heard United Airlines asking for volunteers to give up their seats on an overbooked flight. They started by offering a $200.00 flight credit and by the time they were done they were up to a $800.00 credit, a hotel room, if needed, and…
Happy Birthday Cornerstone
22 years ago this very Sunday I preached my first message at Cornerstone, the church formerly known as Bedford Community Church. Some of you who are here today were there, many who are here today weren’t even born. To put that into perspective, 22 years before I preached my first message at Cornerstone, the Vietnam War was…
Ho, Ho, Ho
To quote Uncle Albert, “I love to laugh”. The other day, on my way through airport security my carry-on luggage was flagged for further inspection. The suspicious article that showed up on the x-ray was my shaving mug and soap. When I was trying to explain what it was, and that it wasn’t a liquid…
Healing Prayers
I love this story. Here we see Jesus healing not one person or two but four in three separate instances and if we had of kept reading we would have discovered that after leaving the blind men he healed a man who was mute. And this wasn’t an isolated incident in the story. Contained within…
Seriously
It was one of those newspaper articles that made me go: Seriously? Garage owner Chad Rankin is appealing a court decision that found him to be responsible for an accident involving two teens in 2006.The teens, who had been drinking and smoking pot, trespassed onto Rankin’s property and stole a car that had been left…
Unanswered Prayer
God Answers Prayer, But Not Always Prayer helps us feel closer to God, more connected to the church and extremely guilty if it is perceived that we don’t do it enough or correctly. And this is one of the verses that is often claimed as a promise for praying Christians: James 5:16 The earnest prayer…
Where’d it go?
The mail always gets through, eventually. I read a news story a number of years ago about a post card that arrived in Aberdeen Scotland from Brisbane Australia a little late. In most cases surface mail from “Down Under” can take up four to six weeks to make the journey to Scotland. The problem was…
How You Pray
If I was to ask for a show of hands as to how many folks here pray I would suspect that virtually everyone would raise their hands. If I was to ask how many folks believe their prayers would be answered hopefully the same number would raise their hands. I mean really, if we don’t…