I Am – or am I?
Part of my Bible reading commitment for 2012 is reading through the bible at least twice. I decided to do that by following two different daily reading-through-the-bible plans. One is an Old...
View ArticlePerfect Storm
Every once in a while there falls into my life a perfect storm of ideas or concepts. That happened today. It started many months ago, when my Sister gave me a book for my birthday called “Vital...
View ArticleWhat’s the Deal About Sabbath?
I admit to a kind of love/hate relationship with the idea of Sabbath. It is like I am a 50% Sabbath kind of person. The scriptural admonition (OK Command) has two parts to it. The first is to...
View ArticleThe Presence of God
I heard a story the other day about a wedding where the groom at the last moment decided not to show up. Instead he just took the honeymoon tickets and went to Jamaica or wherever it was, by himself....
View ArticleWhere Do Leaders Come From
Last week I had the privilege of sitting in on a “Leadership Think Tank” where a group of our district’s leaders were gathering to talk about and think about developing quality leaders for the future...
View ArticleWhen we think about Salvation
I am a believer in Salvation! I believe that everyone needs to invite Jesus into their heart and life. But I admit to having a growing problem with how we tend to teach and preach this salvation...
View ArticleDiscerning God’s Will
Have you ever thought about the primary role and task of a staff team or a leadership board? To look at a board’s or a staff team’s agenda, it would not always be clear what it is that we are really...
View ArticleI Doubt It
None of us like to think about doubt. There is something about doubt that smacks of a lack of faith, or an inner spiritual weakness that none of us are very willing to widely admit. Yet we do doubt....
View ArticleReflections on Ends
Growing up in a Pastor’s home, then being in Pastoral Ministry for some 30 years, I have seen and been a part of many funerals. Many of them were acquaintances, some were close friends, some were...
View ArticleWhen Bad Things Happen
We live in a world where we only seem to hear the bad news. And here in Alberta over the last while the flooding has seemed to generate a whole lot of that kind of news. But in the middle of the...
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