Wordless Wednesday: Happy New Year!

Top Three Tuesday: Things I Actually Got Done

Well, I had a week off last week and resolved to get three things done: 3.  Read a book.  Not quite done but 165 of the 250 pages done.  Simple Church is not Simple.  It is a great book that follows in the footsteps of the Purpose Driven Church.  The great contribution to church leadership …

Getting What We Don't Deserve

In the Old Testament, the prophet Ezekiel teaches that every man (and woman) has the freedom to choose, good or evil and there will be consequences of these personal choices. Sin is not an unfortunate outcome that people innocently fall into, of no fault of their own. Without redemption, we would each bear the burden …

WALL-E

I watched Wally with my three oldest boys tonight; Well actually two oldest and our neighbour's son.  He's kind of one of us too.  After seeing Bambi, I would have thought there was no animated feature that could make me cry.  I was wrong. Wally could very well be my new favourite Pixar movie.  It …

Noel Tweets!

I heard about Twitter a couple of months ago and have been experimenting with it ever since.  There is something about it that I find quite fascinating.  Twitter is a microblog service that basically allows you to broadcast a 140 character status either on line or using a cell phone text message. Michael Hyatt writes …

Double-Souled

Last year Life magazine did a cover story about Abigail & Brittany Hensel, now eighteen year old conjoined twins.  It was also written about here.  "One Body with Two Souls" Perhaps inappropriately, there is a fascination in the public toward Siamese (conjoined) twins.  Born as an accident of nature, there is something almost unnatural about …

Merry Christmas To All & To All a Good Night

Everything is set, the kids are in bed.  Devin is still up (12: 30 am) but I hope he will soon fall asleep.  He turns into a pumpkin if he doesn't get a full night's rest.  Before I toddle off for a 'long winter's nap', some words about Christmas. Michael Horton, professor of theology at Westminster …

Wordless Wednesday: The Reason for the Season

Top Three Tuesday: Top Three Things I Want To Get Done

I looked at the schedule at the beginning of December and realized that, our church is not having midweek Bible Study on Wednesday, I am not scheduled to speak on Dec. 28 and I've got one more week of holidays that I haven't taken during 2008 soooo.... I am on holidays starting yesterday. I have …

The Glory of Jesus Christ

I preached yesterday about the supremacy of Christ yesterday and looked at Colossians 1: 15 - 20 where Jesus is amazingly described by Paul as the image of the invisible God.  I love that phrase; The Greek is literally, Jesus is 'a portrait of God invisible'.  He is first born over creation, with all the …