It was March 2020… The streets emptied, stores closed, and people huddled at home. It was a time of panic. A pandemic. Markets crashed, borders closed, and people pivoted. (more…)
Bob JonesMarch 19, 2020
The sun comes up, it's a new day dawning. The song lyric came to mind as the sun rose on March 15th. Highway #33 is a familiar stretch of road after eight months of commuting to Barrhead, Alberta. Today, the sunrise was all the more meaningful because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The sun came up today. The sun will come up tomorrow. (more…)
Bob JonesMarch 15, 2020
March has always been about madness. Watching college basketball teams from Kentucky, Georgetown or North Carolina play in the annual “March Madness” tournament is a rite of spring. I don’t follow basketball, except in March. Not in 2020. The madness this March is a pandemic named COVID-19. (more…)
Bob JonesMarch 12, 2020
What good is praying? If God, to whom you pray, knows the future, then the future is already determined. So why bother praying? How can prayer change the future? And if God does not know the future, why bother worshiping? (more…)
Bob JonesMarch 8, 2020
When John D. Rockefeller was asked what quality he was willing to pay for the most when hiring employees, he responded without hesitation, "The ability to get along with people." - See more at: http://ministrytodaymag.com/index.php/ministry-leadership/culture/7294-how-to-pastor-difficult-people#sthash.tJgvCZZK.dpuf When John D. Rockefeller was asked what quality he was willing to pay for the most when hiring employees, he responded without hesitation, "The ability to get along with people." - See more at: http://ministrytodaymag.com/index.php/ministry-leadership/culture/7294-how-to-pastor-difficult-people#sthash.tJgvCZZK.dpuf When John D. Rockefeller was asked what quality he was willing to pay for the most when hiring employees, he responded without hesitation, "The ability to get along with people." - See more at: http://ministrytodaymag.com/index.php/ministry-leadership/culture/7294-how-to-pastor-difficult-people#sthash.tJgvCZZK.dpufLife is relationships - the rest is just details. John D. Rockefeller was asked what quality…
Bob JonesMarch 1, 2020
Rick and Kay Warren were devastated when their 27-year old son Matthew committed suicide in April 2013. Their grief was unimaginable. Matthew had suffered from depression all of his life. In September 2013 the Warrens gave their first public interview with CNN. Piers Morgan called it “one of the most moving interviews I conducted in my life.” (more…)
Bob JonesMarch 1, 2020
I was five years old when my mother, who had divorced my father when I was two, met a monster and moved him into our house. He was a violent child molester who tortured me for the better part of a year, and the abuse was too graphic to describe here. (more…)
Bob JonesMarch 1, 2020
At the halfway marker of a 10km fundraiser, a volunteer observed the pair of running shoes hanging around my neck and made an astute guess. “You must be running for someone today.” (more…)
Bob JonesFebruary 24, 2020
She dropped by unannounced. And I couldn’t help cringing somewhat. Ever-so-slightly mortified. (more…)
Bob JonesFebruary 10, 2020