Testing and overcoming

Scripture: 1 John 4:1-6 “It’s too good to be true!” We’ve all heard this phrase before right? We’ve probably even said it a few times ourselves. Usually when we’re talking about something being too good to be true, we’re hearing about a...

greater than our hearts

Scripture Reading: 1 John 3:11-24 The past few weeks, I don’t know about you, but I can’t watch the news right now. It’s hard on the heart to see everything that’s been happening in the world, and in particular the United States. First there...

Being Renewed

Scripture: 1 John 2:29-3:10 On Wednesday, Craig, Shirley, Grace, Bev and myself drove to New Glasgow for lunch. Seems to be a long way to go just for lunch. What we really went for was to hear more about this Church Renewal journey we’ve begun here at Carman. We...

Training the machine

Scripture: 1 John 2:18-28 While I was driving to New Glasgow last Sunday afternoon, I was listening to CBC Radio and heard a story of how technology is helping, of all places, lawyers’ offices as they prepare legal cases. I’m sure we all remember the...

Living in the Light

Scripture: 1 John 2:7-17 Did anyone else get excited by the eclipse last month? We were driving back from vacation and stopped in Orangedale to see Bev’s family on the day of the eclipse. We got there just before the eclipse started and we quickly made a pinhole...