My Christian Worship through the Centuries class was supposed to spend Friday morning at Christ the Saviour Antiochian Orthodox church in Waterloo. The priest was going to spend some time filling us in about the liturgy and worship practices of the ancient Eastern church.
My office door is rarely closed. I like people and I generally don’t mind being interrupted by someone who needs my help. I think it’s because I’m an E. But not everyone is an E. Our church’s leadership team recently filled out a Myers-Briggs questionnaire. We wanted to learn about our personality differences and how we could…
I love the Hanover winters. We’ve been without internet since Wednesday. I think our wireless receiver got iced up. Thankfully a technician came out this morning. While he was working on getting us online, a Purolator package arrived for Erika. The delivery guy made an attempt at our driveway. He almost made it to the…
I’m only three days into my new ministry role and I’m starting to wonder why church leadership looks a lot more like a wrestling match (where the goal is forcing others into submission) rather than the stuff Jesus talked about (for example, loving God and loving our neighbours)? I don’t think we should stop using…
Happy Birthday to my favorite person in the whole world. No, not me; Erika. Last night we laid in bed reminiscing about when we first met. I think God had something to do with it. We were both raised by parents who spent a lot of time reminding us that we the greatest thing since…
This week, I went to a pastor’s gathering @ EBC with our interim lead pastor. We heard from Phil Wagler. He’s the lead pastor of a number of churches in Huron county. Their model of leadership and their ideas about ministry resonated with me. One of the things that stood out to me was something…
I decided to spend some time studying today’s text: Here’s what I learned: 1. Jesus begins by addressing the role of “the Law” and “the Prophets”. These are 2 parts of the Old Testament. The Law, also known as Torah, is the first 5 books of the Hebrew Scriptures (O.T.). The Prophets are the latter…