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 If you were to ask me to tell you today's date I would say it is irelevant.  It seems like it was yesterday when I was walking the halls in college and pondering what my future would look like in five years from then.  I studied music theater performance in college,  and left early to return to a life that was more normal than a life in the performing arts.  At this stage in my life I look back over 20 years ago and think in ways that reveal to me how dream-like my life was at 20.  In fact at that point in my life I was living my dream I was working towards something that would fulfill my deepest longings as a human being.  I like to tell myself that money or material success doesn't define happiness.  I learned throughout the years to cope with the let downs in life in a way that brought my life a little bit of happiness,  despite what it seems like forfeiting my acting ambitions.  I was a different person then and I am a different per...

  Here we are in the second decade of the 21st-century. It just seems like yesterday  that we were celebrating N'SnycThe Backstreet Boys and Christina Auguilera,  not to forget Britney Spears either. The 90s was a transitional period for me in more ways than one,  I discovered meditation  I saw my independence  and the 90s seem to be a year of growing up for myself.  I was attending Trent University as a part-time student  and left before the year started to go to a Hindu monastery in California,  well in all honesty it was part Christian as well I know that might sound a little bit confusing. There is a new movie out called the "Awake" on the life of Paramahansa Yogananda  which is currently playing on Netflix.  In the 1990s I believe that I needed a guru.  I had some friends in Peterborough and one of the friends had similar thoughts as myself so we went out on a spiritual quest sort of.  My quest took me to California. ...

Recently we had a visitor at our church Harvest Bible Chapel York Region who posed some serious questions about the Bible and the Son of God. In this blog I will try to remember some of the tricky questions and give an apologetic answer for the ones I remember. The first hard question he posed was why did God love Jacob, but hated Esau;  As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.” (Romans 9:13).  Have I hated - This does not mean any positive hatred; but that he had preferred Jacob, and had withheld from Esau those privileges and blessings which he had conferred on the posterity of Jacob. This is explained in  Malachi 1:3 ," And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness;" compare  Jeremiah 49:17-18 ;  Ezekiel 35:6 . It was common among the Hebrews to use the terms "love" and "hatred" in this comparative sense, where the former implied strong positive attachment, and the latter, not positive hatred, ...

Most of the time spent on this blog is talking about the postmodern world and how it affects our lives and in particular the way the church is reacting to the modern society. The reason why this interests me is because I have an overall feeling that life is relatively short. I'm not going to babble about how the world has forgotten certain things, but if postmodernity offers us anything it is freedoms with restrictions. I resemble a postmodern bird in the cage who is waiting to sore in freedom. The doctrine of my life thus far has been, do what you want and leave the rest to God. But there is a soreness in our society right now. It is kind of like a bruise that is not healing on its own! Looking back on the tradition of the church, A church that has created many saints and more sinners in recent times. A good question to ask for the church right now is what is the will of God for my life? Obviously the will of God is for the church to grow in number and also in holiness and sanctif...

This morning I woke up rather early, and decided to attend a Catholic mass. The word mass can have somewhat of a depressing impression, but what the mass represents is something that can be looked at as significant. When Jesus died on the cross over 2000 years ago, his sacrifice on the cross is what is celebrated in the Catholic mass. It's not that Jesus is dying again in a symbolic way, it's an unbloodied way to memorialize the sacrifice for our sins. Although I attend a nondenominational church, I like the concept of the mass although I am quite aware that there are differences in doctrine in regards to the full atonement of Jesus Christ. The word mass conjures up dark and gloomy clouds for me, why in the world would you want to celebrate the death of Jesus Christ? We do it on good Friday but why do the Catholics do it all year around every day? It's true that Christ resurrection is also very important part in our justification, and even though the Catholic church celebra...

Turning 40 for me was a milestone. Being halfway through life can be troubling sometimes. And it could be more troubling when you've never married. I've never been a pleasure seeker but to look back on my pathway though,  I can't help remembering that movie the bucket list. People say that you should regret your life especially when you come to the end of it, but being halfway through I am reminded that it is only a number. I've been through dark valleys, and I've been through times of great despair. But looking back at your life at 41, you can say that there still some things that I wish I had of done. When things slow down, your heart races.  I used to believe that age was only a number, and in fact that exactly is what it is. When you are younger you worry about the future, and when you're older you worry about not having enough time left. I remember a time when I was in college, there was a concept in life that I had there too at that particular time. I am n...

So it's almost approaching Easter time and there's lots to do. Coming from a Roman Catholic background, easter time was always a very serious time of the year. Now that I am a part of a nondenominational church, easter takes on a new importance for me. I was talking with my mom the other day and I asked her if she thought it was strange that I don't attend a Catholic church anymore. I don't believe anyone in my immediate family feels that it's somewhat peculiar, but the question I should be asking is to myself do I think it's strange that I know longer attend a Catholic church? I would have to say that I don't know how to respond to this question, other than what I've been learning over the past several years which has led me out of the Catholic Church and into Pentecostalism and nondenominational is something called doctrine. Being a 41 year-old male right now, and also when I was in my 30s.. I started to form my own doctrinal beliefs based on evangelic...