As the world-wide pandemic continues to spin out of human control, Pastor Bob assures us that God sees and understands all of it from a perspective that has always known the beginning and the end. Imagine a fictional world called "Flatland" where everything is only length and width – there is no such thing as up. This world could be modeled using two-dimensional patterns to represent buildings and metal objects to represent inhabitants. We could then add people like Fred and Wilma, who live in one house, and their neighbours Barney and Betty, who live next door (sound familiar?). Also [...]

Thanks to COVID, I am now the primary academic instructor of my children (yeah, I'm a homeschool mom). What I'm teaching them seems to hold new importance. What I want them to know weighs heavily on my mind. Remembrance Day is coming up. What a great opportunity for me to instruct my children in... in what, exactly? If I affix the poppy to their coats, teaching them how to wear it so it doesn't stab them and tell them we do this, "because people died," well, that doesn't seem like enough. So I've ordered books to help me tell the [...]

During this time of waiting precipitated by COVID-19, Pastor Bob challenges us to live out the gospel by finding the right mix of faith and practical works to make an explosive impact on our world. Most of us know the story about the day that started as an ordinary teaching session between Jesus and his disciples but turned into a mega-event hosting an audience of over 5,000. Jesus had compassion on the crowd, talking to them until day stretched into evening and everyone started getting hungry. In what we have come to know as the miracle of feeding the five thousand, [...]

In a time when we all have unprecedented access to information and are inundated daily with a constant stream of messages, Pastor Bob reminds us of the importance of taking time each day to absorb the messages in God's word. Clearly, electronics touches countless aspects of our lives nowadays, but how many of us have any understanding of just how they really work? Focusing on a small facet of this modern phenomenon demonstrates how far electronics have come since the 1930s. Nearly all of our electronics back then were run by a small sealed glass tube. A high voltage was [...]