If you’d like to listen to an historical retrospective on my preaching you can here. It goes right back to my very first sermon. Yikes. I like to think I’m a little better now. January 27, 2008 – (Gospel of John) The Woman at the Well October 19, 2008 – (Daniel) Faith that Saved a King April [...]
I should post more often so that I don’t end up trying to summarize an intensely busy week in a post short enough not to bore you all to tears. Let me quickly summarize the events of the past week: Wednesday – Staging for 1st Community of Hope Leadership Retreat. Phil tasked me with setting [...]
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In visiting all these communities, we did repeatedly see some patterns. Since the communities are all growing like gangbusters, we have definitely seen the truth of how new city planning leaves little room for churches. When people say that the church is being marginalized, it truly is. This was especially striking in Lethbridge but was [...]
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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Today I preached my second ever sermon. It was entitled, “Faith That Saved A King” and it focused on the story of Daniel and the Lion’s Den. It is actually part of a series of messages focusing on the book of Daniel. I got to do this one while Philip was away in Mississauga, participating [...]
This is going to sound completely self-centred, but given what I know about myself, and my own struggles with confidence, last night’s one-year anniversary at Community of Hope was incredibly special and meaningful to me for a number of reasons. Let me tell you about it. We had our Awana leadership walkthrough before the Vision [...]
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This week Community of Hope has 12 missionaries up for a week to help us with our summer push – the “Campaign of Kindness”. We have a fully staffed park program running in one of the major parks in our area, and we also have four or five teams who went out last night to [...]
It occurred to me the first post I did on how we got here, I didn’t really get into much detail about how we leaped from a short term missions trip to Rwanda to where we are right now. The real impetus came in the fall of 2006. We heard there was a church planting [...]
Shane was a boy from the Edmonton area, just moved to the coast to follow his roots and keep a promise to God that he would take Bible College for a year. He liked the outdoors, but also computers. He joked before he left Alberta behind that he was “going to the coast to meet [...]
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