One of These Things Is Not Like the Other

In Acts 12, the Lord delivered Peter from his Roman captors.  When Peter went to the home of Mary, mother of John – also called Mark, many people were gathered there.  Acts 12:13Peter knocked at the outer entrance, and a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer the door. We don’t know anything about Rhoda,…

This week, we travelled to Ottawa for a conference. While we were there, we visited the National War Museum. This museum illustrates the story of Canada’s role both in war and peace and displays honour for those who have fought, won and lost in order to protect the freedoms we enjoy in Canada. I was…

“6’5″ 325lbs solid muscle he was a giant of a man but the biggest thing about him was the heart he had for the Saviour”  Imagine, if you will, a man who stood heads taller than all those around him.  Arms the size of a waist and legs that would rival a tree for stability. …

 “I wonder, wonder, wonder who, who wrote the book of love”  (Monotones, 1957) “Lionel, smooch, smooch, what if your wife finds out?” “Don’t worry, Murgatroyd.  (more smooching)  She’ll never know.” There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seek it.(Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone) “I’m going as a zombie.” …

It feels as though it has been a very long time since I sat down to write.  In the past couple of weeks, we’ve had a funeral, some teenage rebellion, a birthday party, gallons and gallons of rain, another birthday, Mother’s Day, swimming lessons, Daddy left for sea and the cherry on top was a…

Exodus 18:18You and these people who come to you will only wear yourselves out. The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it alone.  When we were visiting our son at CMR, we saw a fantastic object lesson in living colour.  Teamwork works! The cadets were charged with accomplishing a variety of different …