When I was growing up building shelters was one of my favorite pastimes. In the summer months I would head down to the nearby creek and build forts. At our family home I built a special 'bunker' in our backyard. It was filled with my stuff and it made for a fun-filled summer. In our church's boy's club we learned how to build shelters for camping in the middle of a Canadian winter. How I enjoyed...
Every church has a context. This simply means that we have a current situation where we live and do gospel ministry. That context is different for every church. Oh, there are many similarities, but every church has its own context. When I began to serve the local church 37 years ago, I paid particular attention to my ministry context. Back then, the buzz word was that we were to be culturally relevant as a church. We...
Sometimes you just have think outside of the box! I had to do this with my last motorcycle rebuild. I had taken this Kawasaki W650, and with some cosmetic fixes, this motorcycle took on the persona of a cafe racer. But after my son had a serious run-in with a car which hit it head-on, I had to think outside the box. My son was thankfully spared any serious injury, but the motorcycle was a disaster. ...
Every time I do my workout I take my pulse! In fact, my pulse is taken automatically. The cross-trainer I use at home registers my heart rate as well as the amount of calories I am burning. There are goals I set for both. It is recommended that I exercise within 55 to 85 percent of my maximum heart rate (MHR) for at least 20 to 30 minutes to get the best results from aerobic exercise. ...
I recall a time, not long ago, when I just had to sit down. I did not have any strength to stand. It was a very humid hot day. I was especially busy that day doing yard work. After several hours of pruning, cleaning, moving dirt, my strength, in the words of the Psalmist, was "dried up like a broken piece of pottery." (Psalm 22:15) I just did not have the strength to stand, let alone...
