Today (September 10th) is the day set aside by the World Health Organization as World Suicide Prevention Day. It serves as a reminder of the lives lost to suicide each year and acts as a motivating force to encourage wide-spread prevention efforts. Every 40 seconds on average someone on our planet will take their own…
Next week for most students in the Northern Hemisphere it is the return to school after summer break. For some people it means sadness, and well, others cannot wait for school to begin again. One of the things we really take for granted is education. There are many millions of children in the world that…
This past week marks the 25th anniversary of what is known as the World Wide Web. The very 1st computer networking concept began as early as 1965, but it would take another 26 years before it would be reinvented and refined for that global system of interconnected computer networks to be made public to use as the World…
It has been a tremendous 2 weeks watching the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, and witnessing on the greatest stage on earth who would be the fastest, the strongest and the most acrobatic. Years of full time training, discipline and hard work all boils down to an under 10 second foot race, a polished routine or…
The year was 1898, and it was the wrestling match to settle the score of who was going to be the champion of the world. In Europe, weighing in at 350 pounds was the formidable Youssuf “The Terrible Turk” Ishmaelo (who wrestled under the name Youuf Ismail “The Terrible Turk”). In his four years in…
The passage is one of the most well known parables in the Bible, probably coming behind the parable of The Prodigal Son. In trying to explain how we should treat our neighbours, Jesus told about a mugging. A man was beaten, robbed and left for dead beside the road. (from Luke 10:25-37) Jesus talked about three…
The flag is unique in that it is the only one in the world that has a leaf on it. With a land mass of 9.9 million square kilometres it is 2nd only to Russia. Bordering on the Atlantic, Pacific and Artic Oceans, this country has 243,000 kilometers of shoreline. If a person were to…
As a lay pastor it always deeply saddens me when I see churches close the doors for good. In this area of Central Ontario the year 2016 has seen several churches close down in the area. And the ones that remain open are really struggling to keep going. What is happening? Why has there been…
The original Father’s Day goes back 116 years ago to 1910 after a lady named Sorora Smart Dodd advocated to have a day to honour dads. After her mother died her dad William Jackson Smart raised Sonora and her five siblings. Like many holidays and special days Father’s Day has gotten very commercialized, in 2015…
Have you ever been in a situation where someone has really tried to “get under your skin” (an idiom meaning “To annoy or irritate someone intensely”)? Or to “rattle you” (an idiom meaning “to make someone angry on purpose, often in order to make them seem silly)”? This was the situation Jesus faced in Luke 7:36-50 when He…
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