It’s getting to that time, where we need to start thinking about accumulating supporters. So if you read this blog, you may well be one of them. Heh. Don’t worry. We aren’t asking for money (yet!) At this stage, we would like to build a base of prayer support. If there is one thing to [...]
I keep on thinking “The Scouting Trip” seems like such a lame name for what we’re planning to do in a couple months. But to explain more means to be much more long-winded than I want to be. But yes, that’s the big news. We’ve set a week aside now. March 22-28 we will be [...]
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It is amazing how one little picture can change just about everything. Since that ultrasound image showing our twins came home on Thursday, we’ve been rethinking all kinds of things. Basic things, like how the house operates. We’re definitely getting even more serious about teaching the boys that they have responsibilities as part of the [...]
What a day yesterday. I left work, knowing that my wife was going for an ultrasound. An unexpected pregnancy was suspected by the midwives as being “molar” which means it could just be a bunch of undifferentiated cells reproducing a baby-like rates. They’re bad because they can be cancerous. Think D&C, then chemotherapy, and you [...]
Still batting around this idea. I thought I would put it out to the readership. What would you like to see Cheryl and I talk about here on this blog? Please leave a comment.
So in my travels on the internets I found another Grace Brethren church planter. His name is Mike Silliman and he pastors a new plant called Elk Creek Grace Brethren Church in PA. He blogs at Mistake Maker. Apparently, he has quite the collection of leadership CDs by John Maxwell, a famous speaker and teacher [...]
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Mike Silliman linked to this video which imagines what it would be like if Starbucks marketed like the church. Disturbing. Dangerously disturbing. Starbucks Church Marketing Check it out, feel free to comment on how you are challenged by it.
Because the Bible connects to things I see, hear, do, and think. And every time a connection is made, another verse is written on my heart. I find that when a Bible verse links up to something that has happened or is happening, the remarkable nature of the coincidence never fails to trigger my long-term [...]
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Matt Sweetman was challenged by Ed Stetzer’s words cautioning about the creation of a new way of doing church rather than actually reaching new people with the Gospel. I’ve wrestled with this from the first, when we came onboard with Community of Hope to help launch this new church plant. How much should we be [...]
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It’s been exciting the last week or so, with people actually expressing interest in our dream of planting a new church in Alberta. We’ve had several very valuable conversations and several people approach us with interest in joining us already. I think there are more out there too – it is just a matter of [...]
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