various I have been enjoying watching a TV show from the US titled Monk. It is about an obsessive-compulsive detective who brilliantly solves crimes. At the end of one show when the captain of the police thinks his wife is having an affair, he is comforted by a colleague saying, “There’s an old saying: ‘When [...]
RIC Do not be afraid Various texts December 27, 2009 Jack Wald What kind of year will 2010 be for you? You may be planning a move and be wondering whether you will find good friends, good schools and a good church. Your parents may be aging and you wonder how they will cope with [...]
Various texts As part of my research for my sermon on hell this week, I went paintballing with the youth of the church (some of us were chronologically youthful and others emotionally youthful). If you are not familiar with the game of paintball, you get dressed up in coveralls and a protective helmet, get a [...]
Various texts One of my favorite Mark Twain books is Letters from the Earth. This is a book that was not permitted to be published until 1962, fifty-two years after his death, because his daughter thought the material represented a “distorted view of her father’s ideas and attitudes”. The first part of this book is [...]
July 12, 2009 When I was in university and first exploring Christianity, I met for a few weeks with a Christian group on campus led by a guy named Ed. Ed had been a drummer in a rock band and had left the world of sex and drugs to follow Jesus. Ed with his long, [...]
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