Monthly Archive for February, 2010

A PATHETIC NEW STANDARD

Anybody who thinks that marriage is a ‘walk in the park’ is probably still single.  Married life, like anything worthwhile in life, takes effort.  When I perform weddings I like to remind the starry eyed couple that marriage can be the closest thing to heaven on earth… or hell on earth, that life has to [...]

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It’s that time of year again when Church of the Rock goes on the road. This year’s tour features the music of the Beach Boys. The songs you all know and love have been rewritten in a God honouring way and Pastor Mark will be preaching the message, “Good Vibrations”.
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OLYMPIC SILVER IS PURE GOLD

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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KNOCKING ON COLUMBINE’S DOOR

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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THE EYE OF THE TIGER

There was a voicemail on my phone Monday morning when I got into the office.  “Hello, Pastor Mark, this is Tiger Woods and I really don’t appreciate you criticising me on your television program.  Don’t you have anything better to talk about?  Oh, I have an idea why don’t you talk about Jesus for a [...]

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