Thanks to Alanna, our creative communications expert, HMC has started an online conversation about life, ministry, and anything else we choose to write about. In other words, we’ve started a blog.
An older, church-going friend of mine has been bugging me to get my hands on a copy of The Shack for months. So, I finally set some time aside and read it this week. Although I would have taken a slightly different angle, William Young illuminated some of life’s greatest mysteries–from horrendous human loss to…
That’s my takeaway quote from one of the the many readings I’ve been assigned since starting back to school in September. Here’s the rest of the quote from an article by John W. O’Malley, “The moral of the story: hang in there, and try to write something every day no matter how banal or stupid…
Tomorrow is the conclusion of the Evangelical Missionary Church of Canada national assembly. That means I get to see my family after being away from them for 4 days straight. I’ve met a lot of great people and I’ve been inspired to follow Jesus. In a quiet moment I snuck away to my hotel room…
Today’s verses are packed with ideas and commands that are highly applicable to people in our culture. I’ve heard that divorce rates are no different in the Christian community than they are in society at large. Additionally, sexuality is the hottest commodity on today’s market. The message is everywhere: old or young, if you’re not…
Our family took a little road trip to the Tri-cities yesterday. Erika and I both had things to do. Since our kids don’t naturally enjoy spending hours in the car, we added an incentive; a trip to the Lego store in St. Jacobs. Without complaint they endured the seventy-five minute drive, marched around the college…
Since when has worship become so dependent on technology? Luke and I recently mounted a new widescreen video projector in the church sanctuary. As with anything “do-it-yourself” project, there were some minor glitches. For example we had to adjust the mounted projector to fill the screen, we had to do some signal checks from different…