In a society that seems to be obsessed with violence, almost to the point of celebrating it, this was a refreshing story. Kevin Vickers gave the convocation address at Mount Allison University this past week after being granted an honorary degree. For those who have been living in a cave for the past seven months,…
Hope for the Hopeless
So we are picking up our story where we left off last Mother’s Day. You remember where we left off last Mother’s Day don’t you? For the few of you who don’t recall last year’s message. It began with a drought in the country of Israel, God’s prophet Elijah was instructed to go to a…
When it Rains
Up until yesterday the name Andre Levingston didn’t mean anything to me. If I had heard it before, and I probably had, it had never registered with me. And then I saw Levingston in an interview with ATV news anchor Steve Murphy and I kind of liked him. In case you are like me, Levingston…
The Journey of Communion
For Christians around the world the celebration of Communion is something we have in common. Oh we might call it by different names, and we might fight over how often we should observe communion, what actually happens to the elements when we receive them, and even over what we use for elements but there is…
Getting what we don’t deserve
It really seemed as if he had gotten away with it. For almost forty years Clarence Moore had lived as a free man after escaping from a North Carolina prison where he was serving an eleven year sentence for larceny. But last week the sixty-six year old fugitive voluntarily turned himself in. It seems that…
The Generosity Principle
This is our last week of money month and for the past four weeks we have been parked in the generosity spot. Each year we take the month of April to explore the theology of money, giving and generosity. Not only within the church but in our lives in general. This idea is that if…
A Sense of Entitlement?
Sometimes we hear folks describe the youth of today as having a “sense of entitlement”, but that really isn’t anything new. I’m sure Adam and Eve had that discussion about their children and Socrates must have had that in mind over two thousand years ago when he wrote “Children are now tyrants, not the servants…
The Generosity of the Book
This is week two or three of Money Month at Cornerstone, depending on how you count. Two weeks ago we at least gave a nod to the fact that this is the month that we deal with Money at Cornerstone when I preached on A Generous Easter, and then last week was our 20th Anniversary…
Cruise of a Lifetime
I don’t know if the plan had been for it to be a three hour cruise but it turned into a 66 day nightmare. Louis Jordan had set sail for a few days of fishing but what was supposed to be a routine trip on his 35 foot sailboat named “Angel” turned into anything but. …
The Birth of a Generous Church
I’ve always been intrigued with the Corinthian Church. A church with problems, you don’t have to read very far through the letters addressed to the church to discover that they struggled with “issues”. Theological issues, moral issues, behavioural issues. But in my experience that is the reality of the church. I mean as long as…