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There’s a scene in The Maltese Falcon where Bogart is dealing with one of the Villains… he says a famous line, for me anyways, Go see the video HERE. A very telling scene. Its similar to another one, I often quote it, but I have no idea who said it, “I’ll do what I wantContinue reading “When You’re Slapped, You’ll Take It & Like It!”

I’m hardly hardly the one… This guy is reading a book, mounted backwards on a horse going somewhere randomly forward, or maybe the horse knows the way? You can see it if you look west when driving south on Howe Street off ramp onto the Granville Street bridge in Vancouver, BC. Carl’s (his names notContinue reading “Rightly dividing the Word”

Think about this for a moment, J B Phillips renders 1 Thessalonians 4:9-10 as “make it your ambition to have no ambition” God has done the work of convincing me of this truth. There is rest and peace flowing from that place of trust. I am in Christ, led by the Holy Spirit to carryContinue reading “Ambition”

“Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you. But I will come to you very soon, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out not only how these arrogant people are talking, but what power they have. For the kingdom of God is not a matterContinue reading “Where’s the Power?”

I was still in High School. I’d been reading the Bible, and praying for quite a while, and God asked me to be his witness one day. Part of my weekly routine was to go to Piano lessons at our church, Calvary Temple, in Down Town Winnipeg. It was a 15 km bus ride fromContinue reading “Will You Be My Witness?”

Sitting on my front porch, watching the children play. I’m feeling old, but it’s alright. I’m just fine. Zechariah’s message is that this is the picture of God’s perfect city. The upside of being old is that you’re still here, The upside of noisy boisterous children is that world still has HOPE

BACK GROUND RAMBLING of the above titration As I began, for the first time, writing out the Book of Acts, I am once again astounded by what comes to my mind’s eye that I’ve missed for all these years. The Book of the Acts of the Apostles, I’m told, is the journey of Christianity fromContinue reading “Being Curious”

As I move toward articulation. I’ve recently encouraged my son that those who take the time to listen, and understand him, are the ones that matter. Jesus recognized this, and expressed this often. In John’s gospel we read where Jesus mentions the one’s he’d been given by the Father. The one I’ve always quoted isContinue reading “Run To Me”