Failure is not optional because we certainly don’t always win. “Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you areContinue reading “Learning How To Lose”
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Cooking with Moose: Apple Pie Jam
Summer has turned to fall. The autumn leaves are changing into beautiful colours and falling to the ground. It will soon be Thanksgiving weekend in Canada. To celebrate the season, enjoy a taste of fall as the apple harvest is in full swing. A new recipe from Moose’s family cookbook, “That Tastes Like Home”. ThisContinue reading “Cooking with Moose: Apple Pie Jam”
Is Your Spiritual Reservoir Full?
It’s important to keep your spiritual reservoir full. How are you doing with that? Need a little help or motivation? This is true especially when you are part of the spiritual feeding of others. Spiritual Disciplines Bible reading, try a daily reading plan. Just four chapters a day will get you though the Bible inContinue reading “Is Your Spiritual Reservoir Full?”
What Makes You Marvel?
What makes you marvel? To marvel by definition means: To be filled with wonder or astonishment or admiration. A wonderful or astonishing person or thing. Things that make you say WOW! Things that make me marvel… The Grand Canyon (the first sight literally stopped me in my tracks) An amazing multi-coloured sunset (especially if itContinue reading “What Makes You Marvel?”
The Conscious Water Saw Its Master & Blushed
Ravi Zacharius says, “A word is worth a thousand pictures, try to draw this… Capturing the beauty of Jesus’ first miracle or sign, the conversion of the water into wine (John 2:1-11), the poet Alexander Pope said, “The conscious water saw its Master and blushed.” That sublime description could be reworked to explain each oneContinue reading “The Conscious Water Saw Its Master & Blushed”
God’s People; a Beautify Tapestry – The Church
We, as God’s people, form a beautify tapestry, called the church. When we are properly woven together by God as one, we form the tapestry God wants us to be for His Kingdom building purposes. When that happens we will perform like the church and minister to the people who need to hear the Gospel,Continue reading “God’s People; a Beautify Tapestry – The Church”
12 Legions of Angels
When Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane, on the night He was betrayed, He said, “Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?” Matthew 26:53. A Roman Legion at the time of Jesus was 6,000 soldiers and they were Continue reading “12 Legions of Angels”
How To Get Ahead By Being Meek…
How to get ahead by being meek. Meek? Really? Yes indeed! What is meekness? Meekness often describes a person who is willing to go along with whatever other people want to do, like a meek classmate who won’t speak up, even when he or she is treated unfairly. A meek person can also be humble,Continue reading “How To Get Ahead By Being Meek…”
Are YOU a New Creation?
2 Corinthians 5:17 says, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” When a contractor starts to build a new house on new land, he has to first create a way to get in all the materials and equipment and people neededContinue reading “Are YOU a New Creation?”
Drift to Destruction
“People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline ofContinue reading “Drift to Destruction”
Meandering Moose 