As you know by now, I have been asked to deliver a speech in honor of my sister during the celebrations this weekend. I’m sure that never in history has anyone spoken (or written) so much about such a short speech that will be heard by so few. I have been challenged, though, to write…
It is precisely 1403 kilometers from my house to my parent’s house. I discovered that last night. It costs almost $70 (US dollars) in gas and takes just about 14 1/2 hours, though that includes a couple of quick bathroom breaks and a half-hour dinner break. Driving the I-75 in the dead of night is…
The Olympics have finally ended. As Olympics go, this one was relatively free of scandal, which really means there were only a few scandals instead of so many that the whole two week time period falls under suspicion. It seems that the events that generate most controversy are the judged events. It is much more…
I have been thinking about writing this for exactly 148 days now. That is how many days the staff at the juvenile detention centre near my house have been on strike. The centre lies directly between my house and everywhere I ever drive, so I go by it just about every day. Every day they…
I realized yesterday that some days I blog while other days I write. Some days I write little snippets about my day and my life, while other days I concentrate on longer, (hopefully) well-thought-out articles. The past few days I’ve enjoyed blogging while the days before that I enjoyed writing articles. I guess that’s the…
Someone sent me the following article yesterday. I have searched in vain to find a source to link to for it. I understand that it was written by Dr Peter Hammond, but that is about all I know. It provides an interesting perspective on the Olympic games. Various newspaper articles, media networks and the Olympic…
My sister’s wedding is one week from Saturday. They asked me today if I would give a speech about her. I have a rather poor memory and I’m sure this will strain it to the max. Of course it doesn’t help that for the past five years the family has been living just about 1000…
I used to spend a lot of time at a reasonably popular forum where people from across the world gathered to discuss, well, just about everything. Though the site was dedicated to computer gaming, something I used to devote a lot of time to, the forums seemed to be devoted to just about everything else.…
X-ATI guy has written a hilarious satirical article about how to capture a woman’s heart. Using the Bible as his guide, he invites us to use the same techniques Absalom used. 1. Remove Blemishes that Distract from your Appearance 2 Sam 14:25 But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as…
I have another five GMail invites to give away, so if you are interested in having your very own account, email me or post a comment with your email address and I’ll send an invite your way. If you don’t know, GMail is Google’s new free email service that gives you a full gigabyte of…
I’ve been a busy boy the past few days. I have been working with my clients who own CD & ,ultimedia storage e-commerce sites, entering all sorts of new products and getting them set for the Christmas season. And after that I have a new site to prepare for them that will feature all sorts…
In the past few years we have been treated to some of the worst Christian books to ever be published. As the Christian market expands and more and more publishers are bought by secular companies, I have little doubt that upcoming years we bring an even bigger crop of really bad books. Of course the…
I’ve said this before and in all likelihood will say it again. It seems that the articles I take lots of time to think about and write garner far less attention than the ones I rip off in 15 minutes and post, almost without proofreading them. On Saturday I had a very limited window to…
Steve Camp has posted an interesting article at his ministry site entitled It’s The Church…Stupid!. He discusses the fact that in the New Testament times, pastoral training was handled not by seminaries but by the local church. He extends this to today to show that while seminaries may provide a wonderful education but do not…
Now I generally try to hold off posting ramblings until later in the week (generally Saturday), but I had an exceptionally busy day today so am going to use my weekly Rambling column early this week. One of my clients owns two (soon to be three) e-commerce sites selling CD and DVD racks and today…
Thanks to Joel for pointing out a great article written by The Internet Monk. He writes about Rick Warren, calling him Pope Rick I, and his almost unbelievable statement that we should “never criticize what God is blessing.” If you hang around my site at all you’ll know that phrase has caused me more than…
I’ve been reading “Hard to Believe” by John MacArthur and thought I’d share a quote from that book today. He has just said a rather shocking statement: that being saved is very difficult. I know this shocks some people, because we hear all the time that getting saved is easy. “Just sign this little card!”…
Welcome to another edition of Saturday Ramblings, the weekly article where I attempt to make you believe I have something to say when really I’ve got nothing. I had all sorts of great ideas of what I was going to write today, but then I realized it’s the first day of the Olympics and it…
Today is BlogSwap 4, the fourth in the ongoing BlogSwap saga. Today’s assignment was to write about Freedom. Here is the list of participants:
Today my wife and I are celebrating our sixth anniversary. That’s right, on August 8, 1998, a scorching hot day by anyone’s standards, Aileen and I were married in historical St. John’s Anglican Church in Ancaster, Ontario. Our wedding represented was was probably the one and only time a Reformed pastor has spoken from that…