admin on February 3rd, 2010

I have never spend so much of a day in prayer as I have today.  And that has been a very good thing. One thing I have come to realize that the more seriously you take your life in ministry the more prayer is needed.  And not just that you need more people praying for [...]

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admin on November 12th, 2008

Here’s a bunch of quick thoughts.  I realize I have been a little sporadic lately.  Here’s what’s been shaking. Cheryl’s 30 as of yesterday!  She’s finally old!  Yay (because now I don’t feel so old)!  Or Boo (because I know nobody really likes to grow up too much)! I can only say that because she [...]

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admin on October 27th, 2008

I had some very nice feedback by two men I respect after I preached yesterday.  It was constructive and I appreciated it a lot. But the most important feedback I had was from my wife.  She said, “In my eyes, you became a pastor today.” Nothing else matters.  If she believes in me and God [...]

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Boundless has a good discussion about the predicament of singles in churches today.  We have some singles in our church and I have definitely had, at different times, opportunity to speak into their lives.  When I read this quote from a single guy having trouble with the reaction of his church to his situation, I [...]

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admin on September 9th, 2008

No, not mine. But another blogger friend, she put up a post considering whether it’s a bit too harsh to say divorce is wrong, or sin.  She has noticed that a lot of people take very harsh views of divorce, and wonders if things aren’t quite as black and white. They never are. However, I [...]

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Lots of good articles in my RSS reader this morning.  If you don’t have an RSS feed reader (even if you’re not a big blog fan) I recommend it heartily.  It condenses hours of blog surfing down to minutes.  If you ever came across websites or blogs that you thought you’d like to read more [...]

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Cheryl on June 30th, 2008

Either this is a sign of Shane and I being so connected that we know each other’s thoughts, or it is a sign that we don’t communicate. He just stole my topic for today’s blog entry. Now I have no idea what to write about. I guess I’ll start rambling until I come up with [...]

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admin on June 27th, 2008

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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