So, my wife asked me evening. ‘Do you ever think about dying? Hmmm. Good question in this day of pandemic pandemonium, uncertainty and fear.
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My time in training for Christian ministry in study for a Master of Divinity at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, overlapped with Tim Keller, who has been a very able and respected pastor and au
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The world seems to be in constant pain, writhing, suffering, longing for release.
It might be our memories of that awful day in 2001 - 9/11.
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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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Sometimes we seem to have our lives all together, just the way we like them, just the way we planned and worked hard to achieve. Some folk never manage to pull that off, but some of us do.
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Whenever we ask Who and What is God? Who and What is He like? - the first answer that Scripture gives seems to be: 'Look at what I’ve made! Look at the Creation!’
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The full poem written by Amy Carmichael may be found here.
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There are times when we feel really good about life and times when we don’t, times when we feel strong in faith and times when we don’t.
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Asking where You are, Lord, wondering where You’ve been, is like standing in a hurricane, trying to find the wind.
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When our first granddaughter was stillborn, we very much appreciated those who had foreseen that this kind of thing happens, and had decided to do something in the light of the deep pain and disapp
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What was it Jesus really came to do, to accomplish as one thinks of the individual needs of families, individuals, communities and nations?
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The lyrics for Hurt a song written by Trent Reznor and first released on Nine Inch Nails in 1994, come with all of the hurt, pain, and crying-out-loud hone
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Virgil was likely the greatest Roman poet. That's what they thought in his day and most scholars today concur. His poem, the Aeneid, told of Rome’s legendary founder.
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One day I mourned; it could have been any day and in many places in our broken world.
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There are lots of things that can contribute to making a bad day. I am beginning to be really frustrated by the level of congestion found in driving in Toronto.
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A famous sermon was entitled, 'When Life Caves In, What Then?'
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Sometimes you feel that whatever you do, you just cannot win.
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