Over the summer while I was working at Beaver Cross Camp there was a daily session of Christian teaching for the campers led by a minister, Father Tyler. Father Tyler isn’t your typical boring, grey haired, slightly out of touch stereotypical minister. He is a sport fanatic with the best baseball hit I have ever […]
Author: PeteMcM
Rise
As I’ve mentioned once or twice I spend my summers working as a counsellor at a Christian youth camp in New York. And as part of that every day we had a couple of worship sessions. One evening this summer as that was going on the worship leader Shannon instructed us to just close our […]
Heaven is for real – Review
A book that is cropping up in bestseller lists at the moment is Heaven is for real by Todd Burpo . It tells the story of the experience of his son Colton who, when only four years old suffered a serious illness and required surgery. During the surgery he lost consciousness and over the following […]
Leaving 99
I get discouraged easily. When I post something up on All4God and nobody comments on it or ‘likes’ it on Facebook I start to wonder if anyone has read it, if it has made an impact, if it was worth my time. And when I look at the number of comments on articles on other […]
You could have had it all
You may know the story of Jacob and Esau – they were twin brothers of Issac and Rebekah. Esau was the older twin and so under the inheritance rules of the day was entitled to a birthright and a special blessing from his father. He was set to have a great inheritance and be part […]
Building a name for who?
“Then they said “Come, let’s build a great city for ourselves with a tower that reaches into the sky. This will make us famous and keep us from being scattered all over the world” Genesis 11:4 It had been going relatively well. Mankind had recovered from the flood, the people were living together in Babylon, and […]
The Voice of the Psalms Review
The Voice is a new Bible translation project that involves many artists, scholars and writers, headed up by Chris Seay, in an attempt to provide a translation that is accurate and yet maintains the creative style of the original text. Which makes the book of Psalms a great fit, as this translation style keeps the […]
E100
So yesterday Cassie wrote about studying the Bible with your heart and mind, not just your mind. And today I wanted to draw your attention to a major new Bible reading initiative starting on October 3rd. You may have heard of E100. It’s not some crazy food colouring that you need to avoid if you […]
Whitewashed tombs
“What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs – beautiful on the outside but filled on the inside with dead people’s bones and all sorts of impurity. Outwardly you look like righteous people, but inwardly your hearts are filled with hypocrisy and lawlessness” Matthew 23:27-28 The […]
Running towards the "well done"
Of late I have been running a lot, partly as a spiritual worship thing, partly as part of a drive to be healthier and become fitter. Paul does say our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 3:16), so I figured it was time I started taking better care of mine… And being all into […]