Tag: Today’s Faith
Today’s Faith – Celebrating Mothers
By Rev. Janet Stobie Celebrating Mothers is a special privilege for me because I was blessed with two wonderful mothers. Today I want to tell you something special about my mother who adopted me…
Today’s Faith: Let’s Line Up At The Door
by Rev. Janet Stobie I’ve been reading John Pentland’s “Fishing Tips,” while I’ve been confined at home within influenza. Yesterday, I wrote down his question, “Do we want people to line up to get…
Today’s Faith
In our Christian church year the season of Lent is beginning. The forty days of Lent give us time to look at our personal lives and check out how we are doing. For some…
The Wonder of Stories
At the end of January, I completed the first draft of my eleventh book, (my second worship resource), Dipping Your Toes, Too. The manuscript is filled with stories, mostly small and personal, that connect the Bible…
Today’s Faith – January 2025
I finished 2024 with a column about Hope. My topic for this column, January 2025, is humility, the foundation stone of Hope. For the last month I’ve been reflecting on the thoughts of Canadian…
Sowing Light, Reaping Hope
In the Christian church year, the season of Advent begins the first week of December. We light a symbolic candle of Hope that first Sunday. In today’s world we need Hope. The daily news…
Why Participate in Remembrance Day?
Every year on November eleventh in Canada, we participate in rituals of Remembrance. Every day the viciousness, the cruelty, the destructiveness of war somewhere in the world, stride into our homes and minds on…
Let’s Learn a New Habit – It will be fun
This year as Thanksgiving approaches, I am thinking about giving thanks for people beyond my family and friends. An entire web of people surrounds me, some paid, many volunteers, who make my life easier.…
Come Follow Me
Today, I’m thinking about our lives as examples for others. Most of us don’t feel worthy of being examples. Most of us see only our own mistakes. Whether or not we are aware of…