Time Travel and the Kingdom of God

Nerd Alert! Nerd Alert! If you're not into temporal mechanics or Eschatology you will likely find this boring but I just had to get this off my chest. Some of these blog posts I do just for me and, judging by the page counts, you already seem to know that. We usually think of time …

Volunteering Resources

In connection with our sermon this weekend here are a couple of websites that are quite helpful / insightful. What Kind of Volunteer are you? (Globe and Mail) Are you a Type A, Rookie, or a Groupie Volunteer. Take this quiz and find out what kind of volunteer roles you are best suited for. This …

Our Inheritance

I was reading the parable of the Prodigal Son this week (Luke 15: 11 – 32) and the greatest insult of the younger son's request  is what is implied by the request. To ask for your inheritance now is wishing your father was dead. 'I wish you were dead so I could get on with …

Resurrection

17 On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. 18 Now Bethany was less than two miles[a] from Jerusalem, 19 and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss of their brother. 20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she …

Reading Our Culture

With my older two sons at camp last week, the twins and I were filling in on the newspaper route.  I haven't assisted delivering the papers in years but while on the paper route  I saw this sign for the first time. As a believer in Jesus Christ I think it is important, if you …

Birthdays and the Kingdom of God

Forty arrives this week and I am pleased to learn that I don't know how to spell it. Spell-check keeps reminding me that there is no 'u' in forty. I always thought so. In Eastern cultures, the birthday boy (or girl) doesn't receive gifts but rather gives a gift to his mother - “Thanks mom …

Blue Like Jazz the Movie

A movie I am actually interested in seeing. Read the fascinating story about how this story was going to be a movie, then wasn't but then finally was.

Look Busy

Today Ed Stetzer wrote on his blog, On May 19, 1780 the sky over Connecticut turned dark - so dark that they needed candles to see at noon. The darkness spread as far as they could see, every town in the area that they could contact experienced the same thing. It was shocking, frightening, and …

Our Trip to England: One Year Later

by Julie Walker It was a year ago this week that Noel and I went on our trip of a lifetime. (You can read our travel log here.) What an amazing experience it was. In so many ways it was exactly what we needed at just the right time. Neither one of us had ever …

Ode to Little Boys and Gentlemen

Oh the things that happen; The things that just are; when you share your home with a little boy. The sound effects that seem in-born from the moment that he can make a peep. The preoccupation with his body and the noises it makes, continues even when he sleeps. The days of a little boy …