I was scanning over the news headlines on my Google home page today. The first headline that grabbed my attention was the one that declared “UN: Record 1 billion go hungry“. My cursor began to move toward the link to open the news story, my heart preparing to be burdened by the shock of comprehending [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
a monk’s meal
Posted in Uncategorized on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Have you ever participated in a “monk’s meal”? It used to be a game at summer camps where campers were challenged to spend a whole mealtime in silence, with penalties assigned to those who broke the silence. In retrospect and having been a leader at a camp, I think it was just a ruse of [...]
November is Prostate Awareness Month.
Posted in Uncategorized on November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I support this important cause – you can too!
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You gotta laugh …
Posted in Uncategorized on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ok … God just has such a sense of humour … he KNOWS I hate flying, so when I had to book my flight to England, because I was travelling on a friend’s very generously donated Air Canada points, the only available flight over was on a connecting flight through Ottawa, which means twice as [...]
Thoughts on a new vision for the church
Posted in Uncategorized on May 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Whyte Total Personal Fitness on Main St. Markham has a slightly different slant than most other gyms on how to design and market a fitness facility. Tim Whyte’s 20-year experience in the fitness industry has shown him that opening a gym and just passively offering the best equipment, the best environment, the best hours, the best [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You gotta love it …
Posted in Uncategorized on October 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Life is rich with irony and poetic justice. Yesterday I had to laugh at life’s irony as children graduate into adulthood and have the tables turned on them.
Any of you who are parents have undoubtedly experienced times when children plead with you to let them do something with their friends and they try to con you by [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
So I now have the first day of my first class of my M.Div. degree under my belt! Three hours of wondering if I’ll ever master all the terminology, the mental gymnastics of academia and the spiritual challenge of intense study of a book that has inspired the most courageous acts of love as well [...]
A work in progress
Posted in Uncategorized on August 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Autumn is my favourite season of the year. Call me crazy, but I love it as the days gradually cool to the point where there is a hint of crispness in the air that gently tweaks one’s cheeks, and one needs to put on a light jacket and long pants to guard against the chill. [...]
Take the Nature Challenge
Posted in Uncategorized on August 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
As a Christian who believes in the reality of the God who created all the beauty and wonder of this exquisite, complex and most perfect world that we live in, I am embarrassed that we as Christians have not more visibly led the quest for environmental stewardship and respect for the world we live in.
We [...]
