Moving mountains






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I’ve been writing a Distance Education New Testament course since May. It’s August and I’m so close to being finished that I can almost taste it. Tonight Erika spent a much needed evening out with a friend. While she was sipping coffee, I was combing through a textbook looking for juicy test questions….

A couple of weeks ago I announced that I was going to start praying for change. What I didn’t say was that I invited the rest of our staff team to join with me. And since my invitation, we’ve met three times. We spend 1/2 hour talking openly about the transition and 1/2 hour praying…

Tonight is our Life Group potluck night. It’s extra special because we’re getting together with ‘the other group’. They formed when our house could not longer hold all the young families. ‘The other group’ has been a shining example of successful Life Group reproduction, mainly because of Cory and Marie–the fantastic husband and wife team…

When I was young I loved play hockey. I wanted to stay on the ice forever, hoping that the puck would find my stick so I could bury it deep in the other team’s net. I dreamed about those moments. But skating and stick handling was only half the game. The other half was spent…

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…