For the last 6 or 7 years Winnipeg churches have been partnering together in an amazing campaign called Love Winnipeg.  We got the idea from Love Abbotsford which does a one day blitz of random acts of kindness in their city.  We expanded on the concept and do two full weeks.  We don red Love [...]

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If you have never visited Church of the Rock in Winnipeg, Easter is the time to come.  We spend months preparing the most outrageous presentation of the Easter story we can dream up.  We’ve done a Star Wars Easter with a visit from Darth Vader, and a Star Trek version aboard the USS Easterprize.  We [...]

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George is concerned that his wife Martha’s hearing is going and that she is not willing to get hearing aids.  A friend suggests a plan, “Ask her what is for dinner several times and get closer each time until she answers.  Then you can tell her what just happened.”  George asks from the den, then [...]

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I love the Winter Olympics.  I spend far too much time inside watching them on TV than outside pursuing the sports that define us as the Great White North.  I watch every event from the obliquely effeminate figure skating, to the utterly insane Skeleton, to the profoundly nonathletic curling.  Let’s face it, curling is more [...]

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Almost exactly a year ago Church of the Rock was headline national news.  Two young people had stolen weapons and were planning on storming into our church building on a Sunday morning with a plan of killing as many people as possible before they got stopped.  They had a goal of 100’s or even 1000’s of [...]

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Some of you will remember Steven Spielberg’s popular animated series from the 1990’s, the Animaniacs.  It featured the Warner Siblings, Yakko, Wakko and Dot.  Set in Burbank, California they interacted with famous Hollywood characters in each episode.  It had an old school variety show format and the characters spoke to the audience, throwing out one liners and [...]

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