Okay, so it's been a real hot - too hot Summer.
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So many ways to communicate Good News. I love the proclamation, the word of mouth, even as I remember the challenge of St.
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Theologian Paul Tillich said that listening is the highest form of love.
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A CBC radio interview in which host Susan McReynolds interviewed me on August 26th, 2016 - on the occasion of the return and Committal of the remains of my great-uncle, Freeman Barber, to interment
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My Great Uncle, Freeman Barber, was interred in the Avondale Cemetery, Guelph, ON - August 26th, 2016. I had the privilege of conducting the Committal Service.
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We must be careful in our love/or hate of the Church (a lover's quarrel?) and see to it that we love the brothers and sisters, whatever may be their faults - and not take on the task of accusing th
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O Trinity of Love,
you have been with us at the world’s beginning;
be with us till the world’s end.
You have been with us at our life’s shaping;
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Sometimes it's good just to take a few moments, to pause and consider again the goodness of God in the beauty of creation around us.
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I love the amazing wonders of creation. The mind boggles and the heart is expanded. With the Psalmist we exclaim, 'Such knowledge is all too wonderful to me!' Psalm 139:6
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Global warming exists - but there are many myths about why, who caused it and what we could possibly do about it.
This movie might help to give some perspetive.
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Christians believe that Jesus Christ was and is the fullest expression that we can know of God. If you want to know what God is like, look at Jesus.
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In his book Why We Must Ignore Jesus, John Alexander writes that "Christians spend a lot of time and energy explaining why Jesus couldn't possibly have meant what He said.
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"Since I am coming to that holy room,
Where, with thy choir of saints for evermore,
I shall be thy music; as I come
I tune the instrument here at the door,
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To be betrayed, and to feel left behind, lost, forgotten and alone. It's the experience that most of us experience at one time or another.
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Sir Isaac Newton was one of the greatest geniuses of all time with his work in mathematics, physics and astronomy laying the foundations of much of modern science.
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A very technical magazine included a drawing of a sunflower seed pattern, with drawings illustrating a complex engineering principle.
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I love all of the Seasons, but I'm never all that thrilled to see Summer go. With my Raynaud's Phenomenon, much of my outside Winter activities are limited.
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They say that our body's blood system, if laid end to end, would circle the equator four times. You could look it up.
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The moments, days and years go by quickly. - All too quickly it often seems.
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Emerson Fosdick said often that his primary task was not as a preacher...he did not see himself as a preacher but as a counsellor. And he said, through all of his experience he discovered that men
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'Faith' - writes author Frederick Buechner, 'is the direction your feet start walking, when you know you are loved.'
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The words to the hymn ‘Abide With Me' were written by Henry Francis Lyte in 1847. But the tune he wrote was difficult to sing and never seemed quite right for the words. Some years later, a gifte
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Really, fear is selfishness. We are concerned too much about what others think of us – how am I doing? Will I fit in? Will they laugh at me? Will others see my failure and take pleasure in it?
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An advertizing send-up. Maybe some day.
Tochar Studios inspiration and resources at lauriebarber.ca
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Hoping more and more people will find, be inspired and helped by Tochar Studioes resource materials, at lauriebarber.ca
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Activate the movie (right) as you read the text.
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The Holy One never sleeps. His mercies are refreshed each day.
Each and every morning, by sheer grace we rise to face the day.
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“The created universe is the fountain fullness of God’s expressed being. As God is expressed in creation, creation in turn expresses the Creator.”
- St. Bonaventure
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My mother played the organ in our little chapel-like church in Freeman, Ontario (now Burlington). It was a Hammond Spinet model with many stops but only half a pedal-board.
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Click on the Movie and listen and look, pause and read.
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