In last Sunday’s service, we had the great joy of baptizing 3 people: two middle-aged women and an 8-year old boy. We practice believer’s baptism in our church as well as full immersion. A baptismal service is always full of joy and excitement at our place of worship. But it would be inaccurate to describe […]
On March 16, 2018 Coach Tony Bennett and his University of Virginia men’s basketball team made history by losing to the University of Maryland- Baltimore County. They became the 1st #1 seed team to ever lose to a #16 seed team in The NCAA Basketball Tournament. The potential for embarrassment and criticism could not have […]
If I had to summarize what the whole Bible is about, it would be this: God is faithful to His people and His creation and in the end, He will fulfill all His promises and purposes for the world through Jesus Christ. In other words, God is reconciling the world to Himself, through His Son […]
One of the more exciting moves this last off-season in the National Basketball Association was the Boston Celtics’ signing of free agent guard Gordon Hayward from the Utah Jazz. Gord was reuniting with his former college coach, Brad Stevens, who is now the head coach of the Celtics. Hayward played for Stevens when they were […]
One of the most enjoyable and inspiring movies I have ever watched is Mr. Holland’s Opus. It came out about 20 years ago. Mr. Holland aspired to be a great music composer in his life. But because of various circumstances, he ended up teaching music to high school students. It was a job he really […]
Last Tuesday my wife Colleen and I attended a performance of the Windsor Symphony Orchestra at the Jewish Community Center. Only a part of the WSO were performing under the leadership of the WSO’s Assistant Conductor, Peter Wiebe. They played several pieces written by Jewish composers, such as George Gershwin and Felix Mendelssohn. God’s Beauty […]
This past July my wife and I had the great blessing of going to Ireland for the first time. The occasion was the eightieth birthday of Colleen’s dad, Ron Pierce. My father-in-law’s ancestors originally hail from the beautiful Emerald Isle of the Irish. Some of the Pierce clan emigrated to Canada around 1820. Grandpa Ron […]