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So allow me to address this little shindig taking place over in Copenhagen, otherwise known as the U.N.'s Climate Change Conference.  First, for the inconvenient truth, contrary to popular belief, reports are that for the past decade the climate has actually been cooling.  For a further treatment of that subject, pick up a copy of the book Super Freakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner.  Global cooling or global warming, though, is not what brings me to the blogosphere to critique the Copenhagen conference.  Consider this little ditty from our national newspaper, The Financial Post, "The 'inconvenient truth' overhanging the U.N.'s Copenhagen conference is not that the climat...

Say a big "Thank you!" to the men and women who serve and protect us! Yesterday afternoon I received an email from a couple in our church telling me that their nephew's wife was one of the four police offices shot and killed down in Lakewood, Washington.  With horror, I flipped on the news and watched as the reports unfolded and this senseless atrocity was played out in front of our eyes. At a time like this it, behoves us to make sure we let the men and women who protect and serve us, whether as police officers or firefighters, know that we appreciate them and the job they do.  Here's what I want to encourage you to do; the next time you are at Starbucks or your favorite coffee bar and you see a police officer, or officers, standing in line or waiting in the drive through behi...

When will gay rights activists and the government figure out what the separation of church and state means? You've heard it until you can recite it in your sleep. We are a country, actually a continent, where the separation of church and state are sacrosanct. Or are we? Take for example the issue of gay marriage... someone please take it (cue the drums). Gay rights activists would have us believe that the right to marry is a legal right which the government bestows. That's not true! For centuries, long before Canada and the United States ever came into existence, marriage has been the territory of God and the church. God ordained marriage between a man and woman. It is the government which has since come along and usurped that fundamental responsibility of the church and placed itself in ...

  "It's just sad to see that in this day and age, the most offensive thing on a shirt can be what people see as a religious symbol." Stephanie Bennis. What's that all about you say? Well it seems that Stephanie, a senior at Penn State University, has created quite a little stir among the Nittany Lion faithful. Apparently every year Penn State has what they call a, "White Out" game at one of the football teams regular season games. If you're not familiar with the Nittany Lion's football team, they are nationally ranked down in the States and their uniform is a simple white jersey with a number on it, and a simple white helmet with a blue stripe running down the middle. To celebrate the white out game all 100,000 fans who attend wear white, creating as you can imagine, a sea of white in t...

Central Heights is a vision of God and we exist to savour, strengthen and share that vision. 1.    Savour - we savour God as we worship Him, exalt Him, and declare His glory. Our facility should enhance our worship experience by pointing and directing our attention to God. It should reflect our view of His worth, glory and value which then results in the praise of His name. When we declare the greatness of God and proclaim His glory, but our building is worn out, tired and lacking aesthetically it sends an inconsistent message of who God is and how we view Him. Not only should the facility enhance worship, but it should make the transition from the curb to the pew easy and pleasant as people enter into our building.   2.    Strengthen - we strengthen people in God as we educate and disc...

Have you seen the story about Professor Lawrence Scott Ward, a marketing professor from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business? Apparently the good professor is going to be doing some hard time for making child pornography and lying to authorities regarding a Brazilian teen he was trying to smuggle into the United States. Officials say Ward has preyed on teenage boys from around the globe for years. His sentence is for 25 years and as he is 66 years old he may never get out of jail. I hope for his sake he gets help while in prison and can make peace with God, but he is where he needs to be for the good of society. Two things about this report from Fox news entitled "Ivy League Professor Gets 25 Years for Making Child Pornography by Exploiting the Poor!" concern me tho...

I noticed in a recent edition of the Vancouver Sun that there is going to be a Peace Summit with the Dalai Lama coming to Vancouver the end of this month.  The Summit will be built on dialogues with "scores of noted spiritual and educational figures".  One of the highlights of the event will be "We Day Vancouver," which is billed as "a special Summit program" at GM Place for 16,000 student leaders from BC schools. We live in a free society, so all of this is perfectly legal, and rightly so.  We live in a democratic society that values free expression, religion and the right of people to practice both.  That said, the event seems to be attracting the full backing of the Vancouver Sun which has invited the Dalai Lama to sit as guest editor of the September 26th edition o...