Lazarus

Yesterday’s reading and sermon were about Lazarus, the very good friend of Jesus, who died only to have Jesus arrive and raise him from the dead. It is the section of John’s Gospel with the shortest verse in the Bible, “Jesus wept”. A good indication of how much Jesus loved his friend Lazarus. Jesus could…

Speaking to death

Wendy and I stayed up way too late Friday night watching a movie. It was the 1998 Meet Joe Black featuring a rather youthful looking Brad Pitt and Sir Anthony Hopkins. You may have seen it – and you may have an opinion of it. I’m not here to tell you it’s a good or…

Facebook I’m almost done with you

When I joined Facebook there were about 70 million users. Seems like a lot of people. Today there are approximately 1.86 billion. Now that’s a lot of users! More than half of Canadians log on and the number keeps growing. The calculation is that there are 10 to 20 million users who died since they…