Preparing for the Day of Pentecost May 19th
May 13, 2013
Dear friends in Christ,
You are invited to check out our latest Pentecost newsletter: “The Power to Serve”. Just click on Pentecost 2013 Newsletter
In Christ,
Ed Hird+
2012 in review
December 30, 2012
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
About 55,000 tourists visit Liechtenstein every year. This blog was viewed about 190,000 times in 2012. If it were Liechtenstein, it would take about 3 years for that many people to see it. Your blog had more visits than a small country in Europe!
Breaking the 500,000 barrier
December 26, 2012
I found it ironic that the 500,000 barrier was broken on Christmas Day. Thank you for the 500,000 viewers over the past three years.
October Baby a Quiet Hit
September 11, 2012
By The Rev. Dr. Ed Hird
How many of you are October babies or have October baby children? My children’s birthdates are in March, June and November, and I and my wife am born in January and August. So no October babies for us.
This past month the Deep Cove community was privileged to have the first BC showing of the acclaimed film October Baby. We were pleasantly surprised by the great interest shown and wide variety of people who turned up for the first viewing. For those of you who missed the first presentation, we anticipate October Baby being shown again on the North Shore. It has just been released as well in DVD and Blu-Ray edition. You can obtain your own copy online .
October Baby is a surprise hit opening at No. 8 against THE HUNGER GAMES and other big-budget movies, although opening on half as many screens. October Baby ranked No. 3 in per screen average sales. The film earned more than $5.3 million at the box office, appeared on page A-1 of the New York Times and was named among Entertainment Weekly’s “15 Most Impressive Box Office Performances for 2012.” New York Times called October Baby a ‘quiet hit’. Film directors and brothers Jon and Andy Erwin have been amazed at the strong response to their film.
The movie begins with the heroine Hannah hesitantly taking part in her theatrical debut in college. Before her first lines, she collapses. Numerous medical tests all point to one underlying factor: Hannah’s difficult birth. This revelation is nothing compared to discovering that she was actually adopted with complications for an early traumatic birth.
Hannah is frustrated and baffled that her medical doctor father never told her that she was adopted. This cast Hannah into an identity crisis: “My parents are not my parents. I don’t know who I am. They lied to me. Whom can I trust?”
Hannah goes on a road journey with Jason, her oldest friend. Her dad was not pleased. In the midst of her incredible journey to discover her hidden past and find hope for her unknown future, Hannah sees that life can be so much more than what you have planned. I particularly appreciated the way that Rachel Hendrix played the part of Hannah. It was engaging, believable and transformative. My hunch is that Rachel has a great film career ahead of her.
Everytime I have watched October Baby, I found myself weeping. It is an amazing story of healing, forgiveness and reconciliation. Hannah was told: “You have the power to forgive, to choose to forgive. Let it go. Hatred is a burden you no longer need to carry. Only in forgiveness can you be free, Hannah…if the Son shall set you free, you will be free indeed.” October Baby is really a love story with a surprising ending. If I tell you any more, I will spoil the story.
My prayer for the those reading this article is that we will all be reminded that life is beautiful.
The Rev. Dr. Ed Hird, Rector, BSW, MDiv, DMin
St. Simon’s Church North Vancouver
Anglican Mission in the Americas (Canada)
http://stsimonschurch.ca
-an article for the October 2012 Deep Cove Crier
-award-winning author of the book ‘Battle for the Soul of Canada’
http://www.battleforthesoulofcanada.blogspot.com
p.s. In order to obtain a copy of the book ‘Battle for the Soul of Canada’, please send a $18.50 cheque to ‘Ed Hird’, #1008-555 West 28th Street, North Vancouver, BC V7N 2J7. For mailing the book to the USA, please send $20.00 USD. This can also be done by PAYPAL using the e-mailed_hird@telus.net . Be sure to list your mailing address. The Battle for the Soul of Canada e-book can be obtained for $9.99 CDN/USD.
-Click to download a complimentary PDF copy of the Battle for the Soul study guide : Seeking God’s Solution for a Spirit-Filled Canada
You can also download the complimentary Leader’s Guide PDF: Battle for the Soul Leaders Guide
My top 10 online articles in the past two years
December 8, 2011
Dear friends in Christ, 
Thank you for your regular viewing of this blog over the past two+ years. Just click on the links to view any of the following top 10 articles. I would welcome your feedback as to why these ten articles have been the most viewed of my 380+ online articles.
Wondering, Ed+
Over 1,100 visitors yesterday
November 16, 2011
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Motherhood and Apple Pie |
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351 |
Home page |
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345 |
Florence Nightingale: Mother of Nursing |
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145 |
Alexander Graham Bell: Inventing the future |
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36 |
Sir Alexander Fleming: Countless Millions Saved |
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28 |
Dr. James Naismith: Father of Basketball |
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25 |
My Fair Lady |
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16 |
Thomas Edison: Let There Be Light…. |
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15 |
Simon Fraser: Canada’s most successful failure |
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13 |
The Passion of Louis Riel |
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9 |
Other posts |
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134 |
Total views of posts on your blog |
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1,117 |
Yesterday was the most traffic on my blog since I started in just over two years. For the
first time, over 1,100 people dialed in to read the 383 postings. Most of these postings are newspaper articles that I have written over the past twenty-five years for the Deep Cove Crier and the North Shore News. During this past month of October, my blog had for the first time over 25,000 visitors. The first month of the blog in August 2009, I had just over 1,000 visitors. So there has been a 25-fold increase in internet traffic to the site. Thank you so much for your continued interest and support.
Also, as of yesterday, the blog has now had 275,000+ visitors. Here are the favorite articles viewed for the past 30 days. You can read any of them right now by just clicking on the name of a particular article. Your feedback is most welcome. Without readers, writing is not quite the same:
250,000 visitors later
October 16, 2011
As of today, the http://edhird.wordpress.com blog has had 250,000 visitors in just over two years. These are the more widely read of the blog articles:
The Reverend Ed Hird, Rector
St. Simon’s Church North Vancouver
Anglican Mission in the Americas (Canada)
http://stsimonschurch.ca
-previously published in the North Shore News & the Deep Cove Crier
-award-winning author of the book ‘Battle for the Soul of Canada’
http://www.battleforthesoulofcanada.blogspot.com
p.s. In order to obtain a copy of the book ‘Battle for the Soul of Canada’, please send a $18.50 cheque to ‘Ed Hird’, #1008-555 West 28th Street, North Vancouver, BC V7N 2J7. For mailing the book to the USA, please send $20.00 USD. This can also be done by PAYPAL using the e-mail ed_hird@telus.net . Be sure to list your mailing address. The Battle for the Soul of Canada e-book can be obtained for $9.99 CDN/USD.
-Click to download a complimentary PDF copy of the Battle for the Soul study guide : Seeking God’s Solution for a Spirit-Filled Canada
You can also download the complimentary Leader’s Guide PDF: Battle for the Soul Leaders Guide
‘I stand’ song by Mark Hird
October 10, 2011
By Mark Hird
I stand
Mark Hird
G
I stand before you Lord and here I stand
D
To be all I am to praise you
G
I stand before you Lord before you I stand
D (G) (last time x2)
To be all I am to praise you
Am
Though trouble come
Bm Em
Your kingdom come
Am G
Because you came for me
Am
The king of days
Bm Em
Know all my ways
Em G D
Yet you still love me
Comment from Mark Hird: A song I wrote. Feel free to pass it on
Welcome Home…
September 2, 2011
Dear friends in Christ, 
You are invited to check out the Fall 2011 ‘Welcome Home’ newsletter.
Blessings, Ed Hird+
http://stsimonschurch.ca
Anglican Mission in the Americas (Canada)
StS News Fall 2011 (click to open up the newsletter)
Checking out St Simon’s NV audio sermons online
June 25, 2011
St. Simon’s Church NV Sermons
Just dial into
http://www.stsimonschurch.ca/st-simons-audio-sermons.html
What Is Man On Father’s Day?
June 19, 2011 – Rev. Ed Hird
June 19, 2011 – Rev. Ed Hird
Is Anyone Thirsty?
June 12, 2011 – Rev. Ed Hird
June 12, 2011 – Rev. Ed Hird
-an excerpt from my June 12th sermon ‘I am Thirsty’ from John 7
“….I come from a long line of Irish Brewer owners, some of whom liked the product too much. Vancouver has a drinking problem that it does not want to face. Hockey culture tends to normalize alcohol abuse and violence for our younger generation “…I was coming back from the airport on SkyTrain. There were a 100,000 other Canucks fans going one way or the other. They were excited. Thousands of exuberant and mostly well-behaved fans. Surrounding the streets were full of swaggering young men. The Vancouver Province wrote about the police doing liquour ‘tip-outs’ for 891 fans. A lot of these young men were very pumped and it wasn’t the Holy Spirit. It was other ‘spirits’, and they were mostly having a good time. They were on the edge, as they chanted on the Seabus ‘We want the cup, we want the cup, we want the cup!!’ They were getting angry at people that were not cheering with them. I could sense violence, that it has that potential. That is one of the reasons that I prayed that the Canucks will win…just to avoid these grumpy Canucks fans going violent or worse. The Bible says in Ephesians 5:18 “Don’t be drunk with wine which leads to dissipation and disintegration, but instead be filled with the Holy Spirit.’
It Is Not For You To Know
June 5, 2011 – Rev. Ed Hird
June 5, 2011 – Rev. Ed Hird
Do You Love Me?
March 29, 2011 – Bishop Frank Lyon
March 29, 2011 – Bishop Frank Lyon
Show Us The Father
May 22, 2011 – Rev. Ed Hird
May 22, 2011 – Rev. Ed Hird
A six-week series on the importance of Home Groups:
Know Ye Not You Are The Temple
1 Corinthians 3:10-23
1 Corinthians 3:10-23
February 20, 2011 – Rev Ed Hird
God Gives The Increase
1 Corinthians 3:1-9
1 Corinthians 3:1-9
February 13, 2011 – Rev Ed Hird
Nothing But Jesus Christ and Him Crucified
1 Corinthians 2:1-16
1 Corinthians 2:1-16
February 6, 2011 – Rev Ed Hird
The Weakness and Foolishness of God
1 Corinthians 1:18–31
1 Corinthians 1:18–31
January 30, 2011 – Rev Ed Hird
Say No To Division
1 Corinthians 1:10–18
1 Corinthians 1:10–18
January 23, 2011 – Rev Ed Hird
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