One of the pastors at my church recently said that this must be the era of inflatable lawn ornaments. As I was jogging through my neighbourhood in rural Canada that same evening, it occurred to me that he must be right. So many lawns now display inflatable snowmen,...
I was driving to a town in southern Ontario when I first heard the song. It had a catchy beat and tune, so I turned up the volume. That's when the words drew me in, the words, deep in meaning, rich in their correcting power: "are we caught in the middle!"* I didn't...
"So the captain came to him, and said to him, 'What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God; perhaps your God will consider us, so that we may not perish.'" (Jonah 1:6 NKJV) In the Old Testament there is a ship story concerning Jonah. He was a...
The albatross is an amazing bird. With a wingspan of 3 metres (9.6 feet), they are amongst the largest birds that soar the Heavens. And soar they do. You see, with wings that big, they can't actually "fly". They rely on gusts of air to keep them off the ground, but...
In last week's lesson on the gates of Jerusalem, we saw that when we are faced with trials and temptations and discouragement begins to set in, we need to walk through the third gate of Jerusalem, the Old Gate. We need to remember God's faithfulness in the past, and...
Linked in…Tweeter…Facebook…Orkut… now these are the names of social networking portals which figure high in the lingo of the modern day iPod generation youth. Is not social networking the order of the day? Very much! Has it ever occurred to you that if you are...
"Look mom!" cried my son with more enthusiasm that I had heard him use in over a day. "The two water glasses came apart!" I raised an eyebrow. I mean, this isn't usually a big deal to pull two stacked water glasses apart. He smiled. "They were stuck," he said. "I had...
Is a wind still a wind when not a breeze will blow? Is a stream still a stream when its waters cease to flow? Is a fire still a fire when there's nothing left to burn? Is the wise still the wise when they never want to learn? Here's a universal truth. No one likes to...
"The Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I gain glory through Pharaoh, his chariots and his horsemen." (Exodus 14:18 NIV) "Among the gods there is none like You O Lord; no deeds can compare with Yours. All the nations You have made will come and worship before...
It all started out innocently enough. I was doing a routine search of the ministry websites, looking for a story that had been published a couple of years ago, and when the site search engines repeatedly crashed my web browser, I decided to look it up on Google....