Last Thursday, in Jesus' Peace, Part 3, we saw that if God is peace, then the closer we draw to Him, the more we can enjoy His peace. Thus the way to access Jesus' peace is to draw near to Him, to keep our hearts and minds focussed on Him, to make Him our refuge at...
Christmas may have passed on the calendar, but the “holidays” continue. In fact, one of the biggest holidays in Canada is the day after Christmas, what we have dubbed, “Boxing Day”. This is akin to “Black Friday” in the USA, a time of year when you can procure the...
"Be still, and know that I am God! I am exalted among the nations, I am exalted in the earth." (Psalm 46:10 NRSV) One of my favourite experiences in church is praise and worship at the beginning of each service. Our church worship team plays contemporary songs with...
Sometimes depression is the monster that can destroy our peace. But when we know where to find peace, freedom finds us. I received this announcement in the mail. It read: "The Foundation Fighting Blindness is sponsoring a dinner dance in the dark." A clever thing. Not...
I gave away my peace this morning. It was a crazy thing, really. I was upset because someone I care very much about was not acting in the way I wanted this person to act. It hurt me. I was sure it was because this person didn't care about me at all...I don't get to...
"Please, please," I pleaded with my father, "don't make me go back there." But he didn't give in. We had just arrived from Bolivia and unable to speak or understand English, attending school was torture for me. Back then, there were no ESL classes. There was no dial...
Very Carefully New friends ask me, "Being blind, how do you put on your make-up?" My answer is simple: I do it carefully. After living with complete blindness for 33 years, I often forget my limitations. But trouble comes when getting ready to go out. I pry myself...
It was a stormy day on the Atlantic. Though the sun was shining, the winds mercilessly pounded and battered the eastern Cape Breton coastline, driving the crashing the waves onto the drenched sand and rocks of the narrow beach. But that was only on one side of the...
As far as the written literature of the Christian world is concerned, somehow there appears to be a disturbing "calm" about "Palm" Sunday, one of the landmark events in our Saviour's life, with not too many articles abounding in relation to the same. It is the same...
In our ongoing series, on the lessons to be gleaned from "Palm Sunday" we come today to 2 more... Puzzle... Tempering Matthew's "puzzling" account of Jesus riding on two donkeys (SeeMatt. 21:1-10) with the other Gospels, which state that He rode on a single donkey,...