Peter and his friends had been waiting for Jesus in Galilee and Peter looks for something to do, so he is going to go fishing and some of the other disciples decide to join in. The fish all night and don’t catch anything. The next morning, at daybreak, Jesus shows up and asks if they caught anything. Not knowing it was Jesus, they reply no and Jesus says ‘throw your nets on the right side ...
Jesus had been crucified and placed in the tomb of Joseph with the help of his friend Nicodemus, two men of the Jewish Sanhedrin who secretly were sympathetic to Jesus. That would have been late in the afternoon of Friday.
Early Sunday morning, Mary, the Magdalene, had made her way to the tomb with a few friends. They went to mourn . In the culture of the day, they did not pretend that d ...
We have a problem – God Loves You & I!
We most likely would not consider the fact that God Loves you as a problem, but for you and I today, it is.
Rom 5:6-8 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love ...
Trials are designed to discover if the charges laid against someone are true or not.
In one short scene, Jesus was put on trial, but when he went on trial, so did we. How did this happen?
We start out with Jesus being taken to Pontius Pilate
In 26 A.D. the Roman Emperor Tiberius appointed Pontius Pilate prefect of the Roman provinces of Judaea, Samaria and Idumæa.
As a Roman prefect, Ponti ...
When we talk to our kids about school, one of the invariable topics that comes up is about tests, how well they have done or not.
Tests tell us where we are, what we know, what we can do. It reveals our strengths and weaknesses.
No one likes tests. Almost everyone wants to avoid tests.
Socrates said “An unexamined life is not worth living”.
Peter was about to be examined, to be expose ...
The Dark Knight Rises is a retelling of one of the oldest stories written into the very fabric of the universe. Many of the great novels, odes, epic poems, and movies of all time tell the story of sacrifice. There are many variations on the theme but the powerful message of the king who lays down his life for his people; or the brother, husband, father, sister or mother, who substitutes his o ...
This month we have been talking about relationships – what it is to build healthy friendships with others, healthy marriages, healthy neighbourhoods. One of the things we discovered is the kinds of relationships we want & need do not happen by themselves… they take our initiative. If we want a friendship like David & Jonathan we are going to have to be courageous and take initiative. Then ...
A recent survey conducted by the Vancouver Foundation discovered that neighbourhood relationships in metro Vancouver while cordial, are not deep. People will generally say “Hello” and may know one another’s first names but it doesn’t go much further than that.
Across the board, most neighbours don’t talk to one another. 30% say they talk to their neighbor rarely, if at all.
Among renters, ...
God has a great deal in store for us in the context of a marriage relationship.
“He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the Lord. Proverbs 18:22
There are no perfect marriages, only those in the process of being perfected. Marriage is not a science, you can not turn it into an equation, nor can any marriage be replicated any more than any day of your life can be re- ...