Must Hear Sermon

I watched this video/sermon and it slammed me super hard!!  I loved it because it's alot of the same stuff I believe; I have preached it more subtly at times.  But I hate watching it because it totally slams me and makes me realize I need to live it more.  I need to practice what I preach.  It was the theme at biblestudy last night as well:  The book of James says in essence, "You want to have assurance of salvation, well look at your life, and if you don't see it, then do some soul searching and ask God to make your heart right. Hope you can watch this video and examine your own heart. Check it out: Full Fire Video

It's back

I am going to resurrect this sucker, and I won't lie, I'm going to use it for longer tweets on twitter.

I can't imagine

This morning I watched the re-dedication of the Vimy Ridge Memorial. For any Canadian who does not know about Vimy Ridge and it's part of WW I and part of our Canadian history you really should aquaint yourself with it. When it comes to war we usually know more about WWII then #1; due to movies like "Band of Brothers", "Saving Private Ryan", or even video games; but WWI isn't talked about. WWI was a gruesome war; 1/3 of Canada's 60,000 dead have no known resting spot. Many of these soldiers were literally blown to pieces or burried in tunnel and trench explosions. The soldiers life was in a muddy trench filled with filth, rats, and death. And their escape from that was to run across a treacherous field with mines, barb wire, explosions, and machine gun fire trying to kill them. The one thing that blows me away about the World Wars is that it literally robbed generations. You think of the young men you know and realize that thousands of these young guys never grew up; they never built homes and businesses in their home towns; many parents childless. And they weren't accomplished men who went to war, but they were teenagers, young men who had their whole lives ahead of them. One year this hit home when I was a youth pastor, and in my youthgroup I had a core of 12 teenage guys 15-17; I realized that were it WW1 or 2 that 8-10 of those boys would have gone to war and over half of them would not return.
We live in a great country that was built on the courage, valour, and dignity of many young men who fought hard for this country. I can't imagine this current generation answering the call the same.

I know I'm an idiot

I know I'm an idiot, but I love this commercial, and hopefully it's stuck in your head like mine. Follow the link:

Mini-Wheats

Seriously! Is winter almost done?

This winter has been a typical Saskatchewan winter; lots of snow and frigid cold. People always take winter here with a grain of salt and try to not let it get the best of them. When the first few snowfalls happen everyone eagerly goes out and shovels up the snow in an effort to have it not pile up on them. The first frigid days everyone goes out bundled up trying to say, "It ain't that cold". But as the winter goes on, the song and dance changes. People, like me, are sick of the snow. It snowed just a little bit this week, and usually my neighborhood would be buzzing with snowblowers, but everyone must have been like me. I just stepped outside, looked around and thought, "What's the point?"
And I am particularly bitter towards the cold. I am sure my bitterness is due to the fact that I have walked around town most of this winter, and drove my heatless car around with the window open, so it won't fog up.
I heard that all the usual groundhogs predicted an early spring; that was music to my ears, but like most people in Saskatchewan I remain in doubt until I see it with my onw eyes.