As most of you have read in other posts on my Facebook page, my father-in-law, Joe, passed from this life about 48 hours ago as I start to write this; Sunday, January 21st.  Joe was 80, and had been slowing down considerably over the past while, but with no evidence of strokes until the huge clot landed in his main cerebral artery and took him away ( Read more... )

Some of you may have seen this picture that I took of myself back at the end of October.  We were on our way to Baltimore to go on our cruise and had stopped at a gas station, and there on a rack were the well-known tombstone-shaped boxes for the Paqui One Chip Challenge!  In Canada, you have to order these through services like Amazon, but in the ( Read more... )

Again, O American cousins?

Again with the mass shootings?

Again with the dead school children?

Again with parents' lives shattered, wails of anguish, and enough grief to sink a ship?

Again with pain beyond bearing?  That you will nevertheless bear again... and again... and again.

Again, O American cousins?

I had a short discussion with someone ( Read more... )

My message for this coming Sunday is about how God works with us through our uncomfortable moments, because growth and increased spiritual maturity are often on the other side of it.

One phrase that I couldn't work into the message, though, was something that I've often heard in a military context - "Embrace the suck!"  There are lots of things ( Read more... )

This Sunday, August 17th, I preached a message that was completely different than the notes I had originally composed!  This is what I preached instead (the Knox version)...

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( Gravity wins )

( Can I give 'they' a smack? )