Since I’m still on holidays I’m attending the final service led by a friend before he leaves town to pastor another church. All the songs he’s chosen are great, but there is no more appropriate one than this for tomorrow. He is a Lutheran, after all. And it will be Reformation Sunday. I’m sure he …
Kevin Vickers, the Sergeant-at-Arms to the Canadian Parliament, was the person who shot the gunman who assailed the Parliament after shooting sentry Nathan Cirillo. The next day Vickers resumed his duties carrying the ceremonial mace into the chamber. The video is extraordinary, particularly after the party enters Parliament. The emotions on Vickers’ face in the …
Ozwords reminds us that Australians eat ‘biscuits’ and not ‘cookies’. In true Australian fashion though, ‘biscuits’ have received the traditional abbreviation and become ‘bikkies’. Go to Ozwords and find out the background to an assortment of slang expressions including ‘stiff bikkies’ and ‘big bikkies’, learn how ‘Jatz crackers’ may not be referring to a small …
This news about the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Timor Leste’s new building in Dili comes from APWM. Robert Benn is currently in Timor Leste for APWM. Here are some photos of the church building in the capital, Dili. Thank you to everyone who gave through PresAID to make this possible. Robert writes “This Evangelical Presbyterian …
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