Quiz for you...

This weekend is a long weekend. Does anyone know what the holiday is this weekend? It’s Saskatchewan Day. In honour of that, I thought that I would have a little quiz for us that I found on the Saskatchewan government’s website (answers below).[1]

1. Name Saskatchewan's official mineral.

a)      Uranium

b)      Sylvite (Potash)

c)      Gold

2.   What is Saskatchewan's provincial tree?

a)      White birch

b)      White spruce

c)      Jack Pine

3.  Where were the first dinosaur bones discovered in western Canada?

a)      Eastend

b)      Cypress Hills

c)      Killdeer Badlands

4. The original name for the place that eventually became Regina was a Cree word "oskana" which later became "Wascana". What does the Cree word mean?

a)      Treeless Prairie

b)      Bones

c)      Place of many mosquitoes

5. Which Saskatchewan community has the warmest annual average temperature?

a)      Maple Creek

b)      Leader

c)      Assiniboia

6.  How many times was John Diefenbaker elected a Member of Parliament?

a)      5

b)      7

c)      13

7. Who was the longest-serving premier of Saskatchewan?

a)      Woodrow Lloyd

b)      Tommy Douglas

c)      Roy Romanow

 

Click here for the answers and more: http://sheepspeaks.blogspot.ca/2012/08/numbers-30-rock-climbers-rope.html

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God’s Horeb-Bull Experience with Moses and other thoughts and ideas.

Exodus 32:7-14: God’s Horeb-Bull Experience with Moses

Presented to Swift Current Corps of The Salvation Army, 08 July 2012 By Captain Michael Ramsay

Do you ever notice that when you hear a certain song or smell a certain smell or see a certain thing or go to a certain place where something has happened in your life then all of a sudden all of these memories come flooding back from that different time? You go somewhere you haven’t been for a long time and you find that there are all these memories of experiences attached to the place.

We will be heading ‘back home’ to Vancouver Island this week....

read more: http://sheepspeaks.blogspot.ca/2012/07/exodus-327-14-gods-horeb-bull.html

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Numbers 15:22-29: Go and Sin No More!

Presented to Swift Current Corps of The Salvation Army, 22 July 2012 By Captain Michael Ramsay.[1]

We just came back from furlough (vacation) yesterday afternoon. It was a good time visiting both Susan and my families. Susan’s family lives right on Sproat Lake on Vancouver Island so we were able to spend a lot of time just relaxing there. My folks brought us down to the ocean so that Susan could show our older two girls tidal pools and other Island things that one doesn’t get to see here.

We had a good time but we also acquired a story or two.

read more: http://sheepspeaks.blogspot.ca/2012/07/numbers-1522-29-go-and-sin-no-more.html

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Numbers 22-24: A Balaam Blessing

Presented to Nipawin Corps, 22 March 2009
and Swift Current Corps of The Salvation Army 29 July 2012
By Captain Michael Ramsay

God has a plan for Israel’s Salvation that could not be thwarted here in this story. We know – because we have the Book and have read the beginnings and the endings – that God promised Abraham that his descendants would occupy the land promised to them – at least for a time[1] (beyond that is up to them to remain faithful to their covenant responsibilities; cf. Exodus 19:5, Leviticus 23:33-35, 2 Chronicles 36:20-21, Amos 3:1-2, etc.).[2] As we are reading through the Bible together we notice that He used Moses to deliver people from slavery into the wilderness and Joshua to deliver them from that wilderness of Sin into the Promise. Today we have a very interesting story before us. One of the most interesting – I think – in the book of Numbers, complete with even an angel and a talking donkey: the story of the prophet Balaam and King Balak of Moab. Now we know that God’s plan for salvation will not be thwarted[3] but listen to this, it is interesting.

read more: http://sheepspeaks.blogspot.ca/2009/03/numbers-22-24-balaam-blessing.html

Julie Arnold: Enroute to Asia-Pacific (July 2012)

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Have a Blessed Canada Day

Canada's Motto is from Psalm 72:8: He [The LORD] shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.

Order of Canada's Motto is from Hebrews 11:16: But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for He hath prepared for them a city.

Have a blessed Canada Day

Parade Saturday

We are in the parade again this saturday - the timbrel brigade and those on the float or in the bus need to be at the corps before 8am.

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday

Friday, The Salvation Army Thrift Store is involved in teh downtown festivities. Why not come at lunch time and have a hot dog!

Friday, "I'll Fight" Social Justice Concert - Friday, June 22 @ 7pm ET: Watch it live at http://www.cfot.ca/

Saturday, Watch the Commissioning of Ordination & Commissioning of Friends of Christ session - Saturday, June 23 @ 7pm ET at http://www.cfot.ca/

Sunday, Join us for a BBQ with the Baptists after the Sunday morining meeting (church service)

Some reading for you... (click the titles)

Genesis 6:5-7: This is going to hurt me more than it is going to hurt you ...

Genesis 4:7b: Sin is Crouching at Your Door.

Proverbs 1:7,9:10: The Fear of The LORD

Leviticus 25:23b: This Land is My Land.

Jonah 3-4: Get Rid of Your Enemies

Jonah 1:1-3:3: Everything Is Under Control

Jude: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

Religious persecution in Nova Scotia

A Christian student suspended from a high school in Nova Scotia for sporting a T-shirt with the slogan "Life is wasted without Jesus" vows to wear it when he returns to class next week.

William Swinimer, who's in Grade 12, was suspended from Forest Heights Community School in Chester Basin in Lunenburg County for five days. He's due to return to class on Monday.
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The devout Christian says the T-shirt is an expression of his beliefs, and he won't stop wearing it.

"I believe there are things that are bigger than me. And I think that I need to stand up for the rights of people in this country, and religious rights and freedom of speech," he told CBC.

Officials with the South Shore Regional School Board plan to meet with Swinimer to hopefully reach a compromise.

read more from the CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2012/05/03/ns-jesus-shirt-student.html