This is first and foremost for those of you who live with chronic pain of one kind or another. I am probably not going to tell you anything you don’t already know, but pain affects our world-view and we sometimes need to be reminded that we are not alone in this situation. Yesterday Joyce and I ran some errands and ended up…

Every so often you will see a sign that says, “Jesus is the Reason for the Season.” I think it is the title of a song written by John Peterson…not sure. So, it set me thinking about the reason (or reasons) we celebrate Christmas. For business people it is a chance to end the year in the black, for families it is…

There was a short clip in the news about Mother Theresa being canonized as a “saint” and they said the qualifications for sainthood were a life given to doing good and 2 verified miracles. That brought back a memory ofsomeone saying, probably my Mother, “If ever there was a saint, it’s her!” It used to be more common than it is now…

“Search me, O God, and know my heart today; try me, O Saviour, know my thoughts I pray.” How many millions of times have those sobering words been sung, and how many thousands of congregations have sung them since it was written over 100yrs. ago? How sincerely do we take them? Think about it. We are told many times in God’s Word…