What about the Ponies?

I saw a headline awhile back that said, “The Global eradication of Polio” and my first thought was, “I didn’t know there was a movement to eradiation Polo. Maybe it has something to do with the way they treat the ponies.”  Seriously, I am not making this up. And then I realized the article was about polio, the disease and not polo, the sport.



If we are honest we have all heard and read things the wrong way, and in most cases it really doesn’t make a whole lot of difference. And sometimes it's good for a laugh.  
Unfortunately, I have met people through the years who have based their theology and are wagering their eternity on something they read or heard and didn’t take the time to verify that thought.



Just because you read in a book, watched in on a podcast or heard at Cornerstone, doesn’t make it the irrefutable. If you are willing to trust your eternity to a concept, you’d better be sure of the veracity of that concept.  Which is why God gave us common sense and brains.  And, what they will do with the ponies when they have eradicated the sport?  Have a great week and remember: To see what is really possible, you will have to attempt the impossible. Have a great week and remember: To see what is really possible, you will have to attempt the impossible.

The Blame Game

Selfies are nothing new and certainly nothing out of the ordinary.  But what about a selfie taken at 182 Kilometers per hour?  Last summer, Christal McGee of Georgia was involved in an accident while taking a selfie using the Snapchat speed filter, which posts your speed in your selfie.  While trying to drive and take the picture, McGee failed to notice the car that pulled onto the highway in front of her.  And while nobody was killed, the driver of the other vehicle suffered serious brain injuries.  

According to a recent lawsuit filed by the other driver, the culprit wasn’t the young lady driving at a reckless speed while trying to take a picture of herself on her phone, nor was it the driver himself who pulled onto the highway in front of her.   No, the villain who needs to pay is Snapchat, because they produced an app that promotes and rewards bad behavior.  Perhaps it is because Snapchat has deeper pockets than the others but more likely it goes back to that age old philosophy, “it’s not my fault, somebody else must be to blame.”

 Of course even with all of her injuries Christal made sure to post a selfie of herself from the ambulance captioned “Lucky to be alive”  

Have a great week and remember: To see what is really possible, you will have to attempt the impossible.

Who are you?

They want to know who we are and they aren’t content to simply asking Google or Facebook they are asking, or telling, us to give them the details. 

Did you take the time to fill out your census form this past week?  Ours was relatively short, thus why it was called the short form & it didn’t take long at all.   But I understand that some had to go into more detail on the long from. And I know why the census is important. Without knowing who lives in a community and their ages, it’s hard to have a grasp on what will be needed such as elementary Schools or Nursing Homes.

And while I didn’t have to fill out the long form, curiosity lead me to look at the form online, and there were a lot more question asking about work, health and housing.  But there were no questions about faith or religion, that’s interesting. Was it intentional? Do they not want to know or do they simply consider a person’s faith irrelevant?

We may have to fill out the census in order for Statistics Canada to know who we are, but God already knows who we are.  He knows our names and when we were born and He knows because He loves us. Have a great week and remember: To see what is really possible, you will have to attempt the impossible.

Kinfolk

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I love the history of the Wesleyan church.  Born out of the abolitionist movement of the early 1800’s, our founders saw a distinct connection between holiness and social justice.  That desire for equality and justice carried over into the suffragette and women’s rights movement and continues today as Wesleyans around fight the battle against human trafficking and hunger and for education and clean water.  But as much as I love our history, the history of our denomination is relatively short, less than two hundred years.

I spent two days this week in the company of two young believers from the Coptic Church. They were passionate about their faith and their church. The Coptic church traces its history back 2000 years to when John Mark, the same Mark who wrote the Gospel, brought the good news of Christ to the land of the Pyramids. 

And I was reminded again of the diversity and beauty of Christ’s bride, the church. I don’t have much in common with my Coptic brothers and sisters, when it comes to liturgy or how we do church, but during our time together I learned that what I share with them is a love of Christ and the assurance of His grace and His salvation and that’s what makes us family.  Have a great week and remember: To see what is really possible, you will have to attempt the impossible.