Skeletons in God’s Closet, intro They are lurking in of our closets, things that we wished we had never done, words we wished we had never spoken. Families have them, churches have them and individuals have them. Because we all make mistakes. We all have skeletons in our closets. Some are scarier than others but…
No Worries
The other day, I sat with a lady who is receiving palliative care, and she cheered me up. It’s not often that happens, but during the entire time there I didn’t hear a discouraging word from her, no complaints, no regrets.Bev has spent her life loving Jesus and serving His church as a pastor’s wife…
Gilligan’s Island and the Seven Deadly Sins
That’s right, Gilligan’s Island and the Seven Deadly sins. Seems like a bit of a stretch but I thought it would be a fun study for the depths of winter and it starts next Sunday night at 6:30. And for many people the one thing that this fifty-year-old sitcom and a list of sins that…
Happy New Year
Well, Christmas has come and gone and New Year’s Eve is just a memory. How are you feeling about 2016? Are you excited? Are you cautious? Are you simply resigned to it happening? The reality is that, regardless of how we feel about the coming year, there is a very good chance that it is…
Now that’s News!
The headlines that vied for top place this week seemed to be the new Star Wars Movie, including the multimillion dollar pay cheque that Harrison Ford received, and the mistake made at the Miss Universe Pageant. The fairness of both stories have been debated by the masses. In Ford’s case it seems that he may…
What Christmas is all About 4, Christmas is all about Hope
Christmas is all about Hope. Start with clip from opening of A Charlie Brown Christmas Contrary to what Linus thought, Charlie Brown was in good company, there are all kinds of folks who feel the same way about Christmas. They are confused because they don’t feel jolly, they aren’t experiencing Christmas cheer and they don’t…
What Christmas is all About #3, Christmas is about our Reaction
Last week we celebrated Christmas with our children’s presentation, which I’m sure Marilyn and her crew would testify is kind of like herding cats. And that was part of the process that led Charlie Brown to ask in frustration, “Isn’t there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?” And that is the question that…
Chance and Choice
December 6th was the anniversary of the Halifax Explosion, but I’m sure most of you knew that. And you probably knew that it was the largest man made explosion until the explosion of the atomic bomb. The Halifax explosion has defined our city for the past 98years. And I knew all those things but what…
What Christmas is all About # 2, Christmas is about the Story
For millions of people over the past fifty years the only exposure they have had to the bible happened each Christmas as Linus read Luke chapter 2 verses 8 to 14 from the King James version in response to Charlie Brown’s questions: Doesn’t anyone know what Christmas is all about. And when Linus is done…
Thank You Salvation Army
$500,000.00, that was the amount of a cheque dropped into a Salvation Army kettle last week in Rosemount, Minnesota. $500,000.00! I’m pretty sure the local Salvation Army thought the cheque was simply a joke, that it was too good to be true. But it was true, the cheque was honoured at the bank, all $500,000.00. …