TOYS
Isaac Bros. Bobbleheads hasn’t been around that long but I hope they have a good future ahead of them. Citing Genesis 21:6, “God has brought me laughter and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me” as their battle cry, Isaac Bros. gives us some truly wonderful little toys. The company produces a vast array of silly Bible bobbleheads including Moses, Noah, Esther, Samson, Daniel and my personal favourite, John the Baptist. Now it’s true some might find these kinds of toys offensive and hey, everybody has a different since of humour, but what’s best about this company is that they really mean to bring the Bible to life. Each bobblehead comes with a foldout comic that illustrates the life of these Bible heroes. In the end, they hope to make collecting Bible – based toys as popular as collecting athletic cards.
isaacbros.com
Scotch
Arran is a fairly well known name in the world of scotch. Being established very recently (1995) hasn’t seemed to hold them back at all. But what makes this brand unique? Well, it’s all in the name. The company has a line of Robert Burns single malts. Now that’s nothing new. A lot of brands have tried that card before and quite frankly, Burns was from Kilmarnock (like Johnnie Walker) but Arran boasts the first brand “officially endorsed” by the World Burns Federation. Now in my humble opinion, scotch should always be dark, cask strength and smell heavily of peat but if you’re one of those silly people who like it very light and very smooth, you might give this one a try.
arranwhisky.com
Storytelling
For some reason, we Christians really love to teach our kids some of the most terrifying stories in the Bible. What Sunday school curriculum would be complete without Noah’s Ark or Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego being thrown into the fiery furnace? Well now there’s help. If you’re going to teach “the whole counsel of God,” why not use puppets? It’s with that in mind that JewishStore.com brings us these Passover 10 Plagues finger puppets to help you do just that.
jewishstore.com. Search for “Finger puppets”.
Quiz
Ever wonder what your true religion is? Well, if you have five minutes the good folks at belief.net can help you figure it out. All you have to do is answer 20 multiple choice questions and rate each one’s priority as “high,” “medium” or “low.” And that’s it. You may have been worshipping at Presbyterian churches all your life, but who knows? Maybe you’re really a Quaker or even a Buddhist. As it turns out, I’m 100 per cent mainline Christian Protestant, though somehow there is also an 87 per cent chance that I’m a Seventh Day Adventist… huh, I didn’t see that coming.
beliefnet.com. Click on “Belief – O – Matic.”
Donations
Okay, so there’s a lot of fun stuff online, but every once in a while it’s time to get serious. About 200 million people contract one of the many strains of malaria each year. Most of these are not deadly and many can be easily treated. But not everyone is so lucky. An estimated one million human beings die of plasmodium falciparum (the deadliest form of malaria) annually. For the most part, people just go to sleep at night, wake up with a small red bump and that’s it … their fate is sealed. But it doesn’t have to be this way. For only five dollars, you can purchase a mosquito net through PWS&D’s Gifts of Change to help ensure this won’t happen. Think about that the next time you buy a five – dollar cup of coffee. I know I will.
presbyterian.ca/pwsd. Click on “Gifts of Change.”
