Erwin Mcmanus

With the Olympics coming to town, one cannot help but be aware of the concern over the homeless population.  It has been a topic front and center since we first learned that Vancouver would be holding the 2010 games.  In 2006, CTV was already reporting that the homeless population in the city may have tripled, producing numbers of up to 3000 people...

Olympic bobsledder Curt Tomazevicz has no trouble navigating tricky corners.  As a member of the US Men’s Bobsled team, he’s had a lot of experience.   In the following interview Curt talks about how life is like bobsled and the importance of taking it one curve at a time. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTDZeQ63NKo&hl=en_US&fs=1&] On...

It’s hard to believe that the Olympics start today. I live in Vancouver.  These are our games. We’ve been hearing about the Olympics, pretty much non-stop, for seven years. In and around Vancouver the games are everywhere you look.  They are in the signs that tell me the new highway is complete, and in commercials on my TV asking me “Do you...

Of all the articles I’ve written over the past 10 years, it’s my article on how to write a love letter that gets all the attention. I’ve been interviewed about it three times – twice on the radio and once for a newspaper in Dallas.  Love letters capture our hearts and our imaginations and with good reason. There is something powerful...

I am not a football fan, but it’s hard to ignore the Super Bowl especially this year with its David and Goliath, ripped from a Hollywood screenplay match-up.  As I’m sure you’ve heard, the New Orleans Saints will make their Superbowl debut this year up against the epic Indianapolis Colts.   Super Bowl XLIV (44 if your roman numerals are...

Everyone has "cravings" ... desires and needs that must be fulfilled. If they aren't, then our lives themselves seem unfulfilled. It seems that no matter how much we have, or experience, we always want more. cheaper viagra levitra cialis Maybe these cravings, which can't be satisfied adequately by any of the things in this world, aren't there...

When someone holds back in a relationship, it’s uncomfortable.   It creates uncertainty.  It makes us doubt when we desperately need to trust.  I don’t think I could love and trust God if I felt he loved me with reluctance.  It would bring out all of my insecurities.  I would wonder what I needed to do to help him fully embrace me. When...