I am at the Southwest Focus Retreat for Pastors at the Oaks Conference Centre in Lake Hughes, CA. So far it’s been a really amazing couple of days with leaders, lay and clergy. I have been refreshed doing things I love like hiking and exploring. We have been challenged to think about how God makes [...]
I’ve been wishing I could get back to the concept I started with a few weeks ago, but after two days of thought and energy engaging with Nathan Bryant and Bart Blair about the vision and mission of our church-to-come, now I find the thought developing further. In my first post, I talked about how [...]
And all through the church, people debated: Harvest Fest or Trick or Treat? Jon Acuff asks us what we think of Hallowe’en, and proposes one of three responses. I have a fourth. Hallowe’en looms like a black stain on the fall for many Christians. It is a dark night, full of the connotations of paganism, [...]
Pastor Mike Landry of The Link Church out here in Medicine Hat gave me a copy of “The Tangible Kingdom”. I finished it last week and have been meaning to hash out in writing a concept that was new to me. What has become of salvation? The evangelical concept of salvation has been communicated so [...]
Did you ever wonder what the “seven spirits” are, mentioned in revelation? I know I have. I have read a couple of commentaries on it, and seen suggestions that seven, being a number of completion (like seven days of creation, etc.), it just means the complete presence of the Holy spirit is there. Well, I [...]
I was reading in my personal time with God this morning about King David. King David was king over all Israel about 3000 years ago. The Bible describes him as a man after God’s own heart. He did a lot of good things, but he also did a lot of bad things in his life. [...]
Or alternatively, “7 Ways The 21st Century is Making You Miserable”. Preached at Community of Hope Church on May 2. Short summary: The way people think is shifting from postmoderism to pseudomodernism. This shift is impacting our lives as we adapt to technology uncritically and fail to measure our thinking by the Bible.
Devo – John 13:34-35 Do you watch the news on TV much? Have you read the newspapers? What kind of news are they filled with? Bad news. For some reason they love reporting bad news. Bad news upsets people. It makes us feel worried, scared, sometimes even a little helpless. It discourages me, sometimes, thinking [...]
Encouraged by a new friend of mine who posts his sermons on facebook before he gives them, I am going to put up the devotions that I have been giving at the Senior’s Home I have been ministering to for the last month and a bit. As soon as I figure out how to backdate [...]
What do you call it when a Harvard professor is in agreement with Cracked.com? I struggle with “freaky coincidence”, though that may be all it is. But two wildly different instruments playing the same tune bears closer look. Before we go on, I must warn you: if you haven’t been to Cracked.com before, the language [...]
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