BITS and PIECES A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. 245th Edition - June 1, 2025 VISIT OF THE KING AND QUEEN The big news last week was the brief visit of King Charles III and Queen Camilla to Ottawa. They came in [...]
BITS and PIECES A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. 244th Edition - May 25, 2025 THE ELUSIVE NEUTRINOS 4000 feet deep in South Dakota a huge underground cavern is being prepared for a Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). At immense cost they [...]
BITS and PIECES A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. 243rd Edition - May 18, 2025 THE LORD’S GARDEN “A garden enclosed is my sister” [Song. 4:12]. We are enjoying the return of spring with its new foliage on the trees, and the [...]
BITS and PIECES A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. 242nd Edition - May 1, 2025 HAPPY MOTHERS’ DAY To all the ladies we wish a happy Mothers’ Day. Despite all the vaunted claims of men, the old statement, “The hand that rocks [...]
BITS and PIECES A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. 241st Edition - May 4, 2025 A WELCOME VOICE FROM THE PAST Recently, when clearing out a big filing cabinet containing over sixty years of correspondence and accounts, I found an old gem. [...]
BITS and PIECES A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. 240th Edition - April 27, 2025 TORONTO EASTER CONFERENCE The Toronto church held its first Easter Conference last weekend with Rev. John Greer as the guest preacher. Normally, the Toronto congregation lent its [...]
BITS and PIECES A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. 239th Edition - April 20, 2025 HAPPY EASTER The English word “Easter” appears only once in the Bible [Acts 12:4]. It is the Greek word ‘pascha’ which literally means ‘passover.’ The English translation [...]
BITS and PIECES A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. 238th Edition - April 13, 2025 SOWING AND REAPING “He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, binging his sheaves with him” [Psalm 126:6] In a [...]
BITS and PIECES A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. 237th Edition - April 6, 2025 LOSS OF POWER Last Sunday, we awakened to check out the forecasted ice storm and see if we could drive to church. Checked the computer – it [...]
BITS and PIECES A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. 236th Edition - March 30, 2025 THE AIR WE BREATHE Some of our bodily functions are so familiar to us that we seldom think about them yet if we did, they would show [...]
BITS and PIECES A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. 235th Edition - March 23, 2025 THE LIMITATION OF CANCER Dr. Ralph Colas, before he died with cancer in 2015, shared the following verse, with the members of the American Council of Christian [...]
BITS and PIECES A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. 234th Edition - March 16, 2025 THE MIRACLE OF DAYLIGHT Every morning, we awaken to a fresh miracle – the miracle of daylight. In the night all is black and dark. No earthly [...]
