The Christmas season is upon us, and apart from toys, kettles, and volunteers is music. I mean what would Christmas be without music. Silent Night is a lovely poem but it’s the music that makes it memorable. Saturday evening was Christmas with The Salvation Army in Edmonton. The band and songsters had been preparing and…
Category: faith
For Heaven’s sake
There are days I wonder about heaven. Heaven is of course a place that the Bible talks about but in some fascinating yet unspecific in many ways. Jesus made reference to heaven many times and of course to hell. His reference to hell was often in symbolism, for example pointing to the burning garbage pile…
We would see Jesus
It was Dr. Stephen DeNeff that took me by surprise. In his four-one-hour lectures on preparing to preach he laid out the standard work which any good preacher will know in studying a text. But his last class was the one that set me back for a bit. “The final step” he stated looking directly…
