I grew up in a little village in northern Manitoba called Thicket Portage. There are no year-round roads into the community, but there is passenger service with the Hudson Bay Railway going up to Churchill. As a young boy, I would sit at the lake and look across into the sky, and I would wonder about this "God" that the minister was talking about.
When I was about 10 or 11 years old, I would go to church and the minister would get me to read the Scripture for him. There was a little box in the church that I would stand on to read. But I didn't understand what I was reading.
I had a Gideons' Ne...
