How many people know what a bucket list is? If you don’t know, it is a list of things you want to do before you die, or kick the bucket. The concept is best explained in the 2007 movie with Jack Nicolson and Morgan Freeman. (Show clip) How many of you have a bucket list? …
Fly Away
We are home from our vacation. We had a great time and everything went smoothly right up to our flight home. Plane left on time, flight crew was great, we arrived on time and then we attempted to land in Halifax. We experienced some of the worst turbulence that I have ever been in and…
Ships of the Bible
We love cruising! We took our first cruise in 2007 and decided that as long as we were able to, that we were going to cruise every year. And we have, mostly Caribbean but one Alaskan and we are looking at the possibility of a Baltic Sea cruise, maybe in 2019. And cruising seems to…
Hello?
One night our phone rang at 4:45, in the morning! You know that if you get a telephone call at that hour it can't be good news. Nobody calls you at quarter to five in the morning just to say hello or to tell you that you’ve won the lottery, in which case it would…
A Tough Promise to Keep
A Tough Promise to Keep Have you ever made a promise you regretted? Given your word and then realized the price was way too high but couldn’t find a graceful way to back out? Happened different times in the bible. Herod had John the Baptist arrested because John wouldn’t stop harping on the fact that…
abandoned
You can find pictures of it everywhere, I have two in my office, but that’s to be expected, my Grandfather was born there over a hundred years ago. And I while I have seen it from a distance I never actually got over for a visit, and now it’s too late. It was a little…
We All Need Grace
And here we are at the end of Moments of Grace. Over the past seven weeks we have seen how Grace has been experienced and expressed throughout the Bible and we’ve looked at Grace displayed in an unlikely person, in an unlikely place, at an unlikely time and two weeks ago we saw how Jesus…
What the Hell?
Long before I knew about God’s grace I knew about Gods’ wrath. Long before I had encountered a loving God I knew about the fires of hell. Some of those images came from culture and some came from art. All in all I think I prefer Larson to Michelangelo, but I’m that kind of guy.…
Missed it, by that much.
I was talking to a friend the other day when the topic of the terrorist attacks in Burkina Faso came up & she mentioned that I had been there in the past and wanted to know how I felt about what had happened. And the conversation got me thinking, I was supposed to be leading…
Dying to Give
It’s one of those bizarre stories in the Bible that make you scratch your head and say: Huhh? And it’s one of those stories that people sometimes ask me about, it really seems more fitting in the Old Testament than as one of the first stories about the early church in the New Testament. This…