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         With the changing of the season one of the things our local satelite provider has provided for us is a change of channels.  We used to have tvland where we could watch the good old shows like Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley and even one of my dad and my favourite’s–Crime Story!  But, tvland [...]

     I have certain expectations of any supper that I have at my own home.  If it is a ‘normal’ porkchop supper with Sara and the three girls I expect that the four of them will share three and I will eat the other four.  Now, before I get too far–I am very thankful when [...]

     I would say that the second time was a little easier on Sara at least physically (probably emotionally also).  It was quite a nice evening for my wife and me as our oldest daughter was baptized this past Sunday evening.       When it comes to young people and baptism (at least in our experience) it [...]

  When I look at both of the above pictures I imagine that these are perhaps some of the images that come into our minds when we talk about true love.  In this post I am not so much going to express my views (although that will certainly come out) on the subject but I am [...]

     So, I wonder what everyone thinks of President Obama being on the view!  This is not the same as asking what people think of President Obama–either as a man, a family man, a politician!  People sometimes get those two questions mixed up in the present state of politics.  One of the things that made [...]

Let me begin by warning you this is not a review of the great piece of literature by the same title.  For that you probably have to get a message from a buddy of mine named Jon. There is a truth to the human experience that cannot be denied and that is we all expect [...]

     ‘Can I talk now?’  Who does that remind you of?  In our family, usually that is Olivia’s constant question after countless reminders that she shouldn’t interrupt everyone else while they are talking.  Usually, the answer to her question that Sara and I want to give is something like: ‘when haven’t you been able to [...]

Last night was a night of reminiscing for Sara and myself along with I suppose 57 other sets of parents as we all saw our 13-14 year olds walk across the stage and receive their grade 8 diploma and look so grown up compared to the pics they showed from their kindergarten years. All those [...]

‘honour your father and mother ‘St. Paul told the Ephesian Christians so long ago. Parents are very peculiar people–we beg and desire to have kids to call our own and then we worry constantly that our children won’t ‘live up to par’. We claim to be accepting of our children no matter what but how do we [...]

For one of my lessons I needed to download Neil Young’s classic–’Long May You Run’ from I-tunes. While there I decided to do some shopping and started a new playlist–so down came Buckley’s version of the Cohen classic–Hallelujah, then a couple of Green Day songs that I love–21 Guns and Do you know the Enemy, and [...]

I took the dog to the vet for her annual checkup this morning and in the course of her examination the vet was asking me about her diet–I said she basically ate normal when all of a sudden she had a little bowel movement (I should say Mylie was shaking nervously the entire time) and [...]

     We really need to start doing something.  That is such a churchy statement that is filled with much more ambiguity then most people really think it does.  I have said it a number of times, so I am not talking down to anyone whoever has said it or will say it.      The idea [...]

If you got time to lean–you got time to clean.’ So was one of the many slogans of a McDonalds head manager many years ago in Northern Ontario. What was the purpose of the slogan? Well, it’s not really hard to figure out but the idea was–if you are going to work at McDonalds–you are going [...]

     Last post I spoke about concerning the idea that the church should not see itself as meant to make itself isolated from the world but to revive its calling of being here in existence for the world.  That (as Jesus said) we shouldn’t be fearful of the world and as others in the Bible [...]

     Our church is having a special guest speaker this weekend to try to talk to us about a new way of looking at life.  It’s not really a new way but an old way that unfortunately is new for many of us.  Mark Love moved up to Rochester Michigan for the purpose of teaching/promoting [...]

Where is the splash?  Doesn’t that seem to be the big question with a lot of things these days?  We need adrenaline pumping for anything to feel like it is worth doing or paying attention to.  Some people like to live on the edge of danger, others on the idea of something being thrilling and [...]

I am reading N.T. Wright’s book, After You Believe, and he makes an interesting observation concerning the heroic efforts of that pilot who landed the plane in the water and saved all the passengers on board.  He doesn’t deny the man was heroic, nor does he deny that the man deserves to be praised for [...]

Today is that greatest of all days as far as mothers and their children are concerned–it dawned on me this year, how much our relationships with our mothers can greatly change.  Please don’t hear me saying that love somehow dies or that there isn’t a close bond after years of having one–but the facts are that [...]