I can’t celebrate Christmas in Niagara without going to my favorite discount bookstore for their 1/2 price Boxing Day book clearance. (These are actual pictures from the store) Books that would normally cost $40 are reduced to $9.99 in the warehouse. On Boxing day, you pay half of the sticker price. So that $40 book is…
Tomorrow is Christmas Eve. Ever since taking my position as director of worship and the arts, Christmas Eve has meant “month-long frenzied extravaganza.” Every year our church puts on a large scale community worship service on Christmas Eve. That means that we rehearse a handful of times the week before Christmas. This year, 3 major winter storms…
I love the Hanover winters. We’ve been without internet since Wednesday. I think our wireless receiver got iced up. Thankfully a technician came out this morning. While he was working on getting us online, a Purolator package arrived for Erika. The delivery guy made an attempt at our driveway. He almost made it to the…
Have you ever tried to do something nice and it backfires? That describes my life yesterday. I arrived home from Kitchener to find a foot of snow covering our driveway. Driving through it would have been impossible so I parked at the bottom and trudged my way up. After a fleeting family greeting I donned…
Last week I stumbled on a column written by the managing editor of Southern Grey county’s finest newspaper, “The Post”. She wrote a “how-to-understand-what-women-are-really-saying” guide for guys. I wrote a letter of response and it was published in today’s newspaper. Click here to read it.
Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry. I wish I was better at that. Lately, my mouth has led me into some uncomfortable situations. My most recent New Testament class is a good example of opening my mouth too quickly. Without thinking, I asked my class to reconsider…
Last Sunday evening we did church in a Walkerton coffeehouse. My tradition typically spends a lot of time preparing two aspects of a church service: the music (we call it worship) and the sermon. The coffeehouse was different. There was no live music and no sermon. We spent time reflecting on a painting and a…
“Change takes place when people relax and start conversing with each other.” One of my colleagues made that statement in a sermon this past Sunday. If that’s the case, and I believe it is, then why do we make such a big deal out of the Sunday morning show? Last I checked, I didn’t have very…
Tomorrow is my wife’s 30th birthday. Here are 10 things I love about her: 10. She uses “I” statements 9. She acts more like Jesus than I do 8. She has low expectations of me 7. This one isn’t for a public blog 6. I don’t know a better, more adaptable, visionary artist 5. She…
It’s reading week. Every year EBC students and faculty get a week off from classes: once in the fall and once in the spring. I decided to take my last week of holidays from the church to coincide with my reading week. Here’s what I’ve been up to:Cutting firewoodPlaying Dora CandylandDreaming with Erika about the…