10 losses in 5 years 2015-2020. J.G. turned 65 years old on April 4th, 2020. He has not been beaten down by the following 10 sadnesses or losses. 1. Retirement from ERSJ senior pastor role. The congregation needed a younger man to lead the next generation. 2. Retirement from the top reserve chaplaincy role in […]Read Post ›

Homo (one) Logein (word) This means To Confess by saying the same thing as the written or spoken word of another. This is very important to God that we say the same thing as what he has said to us through his true ambassadors. To represent him truly we are obligated to say the same […]Read Post ›

Have you received Christian Baptism? I have seen two important movies for understanding how to teach children to choose between good and evil. Christian baptism teaches us to give them only the choice of good and let Christ be the one who is for “the rise and fall of the good or the evil person”. […]Read Post ›

I am a huge fan of the art hives (ruches d’art) in my city. The first day I stepped into the one started by Janis Tim-Bottos in St-Henri,  I changed some styrofoam packaging, some wire, an old glove and an opal sort of jewell into a sculpture imaging what I could only describe as begging […]Read Post ›

Love Jesus in Order to Love Your Parents was a sermon my husband JG Zoellner preached in Manchester, Connecticut (in English). He probably preached it in Montreal at l’Église réformée St-Jean in French. He used the 5th commandment from Exodus 20, Ephesians 6.1-3 and Matthew 10.35-37. It is amazing to me how useful this sermon […]Read Post ›

Something can be done when a diagnosis is made. Think of the injunction to repent and believe. One needs gnosis (knowledge) of what displeases God. With illness one needs to get a diagnosis or knowledge of the cause.  The notion that to believe is cognitive rather than emotional is surprising since it is the heart […]Read Post ›