“And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, … Continue reading Peter and the Rock
What I Did During My Summer Vacation – Conclusion
We stop at the Yvette Moore Gallery to see her depictions of prairie life, past and present. Her paintings appear as illustrations in three soft cover children’s books. The first, A Prairie Alphabet, has sold 330,000 copies. Next stop is the Chocolate Moose Fudge Factory and Craft Market. The items on sale range from prairie … Continue reading What I Did During My Summer Vacation – Conclusion
What I Did During My Summer Vacation – Part 2
I was born in this city sixty-eight years ago. My parents are buried in a cemetery on the south side of the city, beside my Uncle Art and Aunt Katherine, my father’s brother who married my mother’s sister. My wife’s parents are buried in another cemetery on the west side. Moose Jaw is built at … Continue reading What I Did During My Summer Vacation – Part 2
What I Did During My Summer Vacation – Part 1
A squirrel scampers across Main Street and stops in front of the five storey brick edifice that used to be the Grant Hall Hotel. He sees an opening, scampers up the step, but this is not what he is looking for. He reappears, runs a little way toward us and disappears into the next opening. … Continue reading What I Did During My Summer Vacation – Part 1
A “Christian” Tall Tale
NASA Computers have discovered a missing 24 hour period in the distant past that corresponds exactly to the 23 hours and 20 minutes that the sun stood still in Joshua 10:12-13 and the 40 minutes lost in Hezekiah’s day (2 Kings 20:11 and Isaiah 38:8). This account has been circulating since the 1960's, has been … Continue reading A “Christian” Tall Tale
A Heretical View on Higher Education
When I was a school boy, my parents, and the parents of my friends, would tell us, “Stay in school, get a good education, so you won’t have to work as hard as we did.” That was in the 1950’s, our parents had lived through the dirty thirties, the years of the Great Depression and … Continue reading A Heretical View on Higher Education
Changing Times, Changeless God
Do we long for the good old days when life was simpler? Was there really such a time? One of my forefathers left England 375 years ago because the law required him to attend his local parish church, where he found no spiritual sustenance. He crossed the ocean to begin a new life in the … Continue reading Changing Times, Changeless God
Four Kinds of Sin
(The following article is an excerpt from the writings of Menno Simons, a Dutch Anabaptist minister, and dates from 1552 AD.) The Scriptures as I see it speak of different kinds of sin. The first kind is the corrupt, sinful nature, namely, the lust or desire of our flesh contrary to God’s Law, and contrary … Continue reading Four Kinds of Sin
The Hoary Head
“Hello. Is this your mother? May I shake hands with her?” My 95 year old mother and I were sitting in the food court of Midtown Plaza when a young lady, obviously of Asian descent, walked up to our table and asked these questions. I was wary at first, expecting that she was going to … Continue reading The Hoary Head
Learning versus Education
I found the wooden alphabet block with the letter I wanted and added it to the row that was beginning to spell my name — R O B E R T G O O D N . . . I needed one more O. I carefully rotated each of the blocks I had not used, … Continue reading Learning versus Education
