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Tomorrow is my wife’s 30th birthday.


Tomorrow is my wife’s 30th birthday.

Tonight I’m dusting off my hockey gear and lacing up the skates for the first time in a few years. It’s not a pre-Halloween trick; rather, a couple of guys from the congregation invited me to join them on the ice for the season. My goal is to represent the Spirit of Jesus on and…

Clergy burn out. I starting to wonder what’s going on. I don’t want to be a burn-out stat so here’s a few commitments: 1. Embrace Further Education – It’s easy to regurgitate information and rely on past successes. Especially when you’re preaching almost every week. That’s why I’m hoping to take a week long course…

Leadership rises and falls on relationship. Nowhere is that more true than at home. Tonight, after supper, I walked upstairs to change my clothes. Close behind I heard the thumping feet of my five-year-old boy. He was following me. While I slipped on a pair of shorts and a t-shirt he hopped up on our…

A couple of weeks ago I talked about Christ-centred differentiation in a sermon. It’s a hard but crucial concept to understand. In fact, it’s one of the most important concepts I’ve ever learned. And no one does a better job of describing it than Edwin Friedman. Here’s how he defines it: Differentiation means the capacity…

I wrote this for our church website a few months ago: “The church is not a building. It is the community of God on mission.” How would church leadership change if pastors were asked to mobilize people rather than attracted them to Sunday morning services? What if a church community decided to flatten its leadership…

Yesterday I preached on 1 Timothy 2. If you’re not familiar with this portion of Paul’s writings, there’s a part there that calls women to not speak or have authority over their male counterparts (1 Tim. 2:12). It’s bad teaching to interpret this text literally. Here’s part of the story that’s often untold: 1. Instability…