Formation @ Home – One week exercise

I’m starting a new sermon series tomorrow. It’s entitled Formation @ Home.


I’m starting a new sermon series tomorrow. It’s entitled Formation @ Home.

I don’t mind cold weather. Unless it causes our water pipe to freeze and burst. I knew something was wrong when I stepped into the garage for firewood and noticed a massive ice build-up on the car hood. I looked up an d saw icicles hanging from the dry walled ceiling. Not good. The encouraging part is that it happened in…

It’s official. It’s Good Friday and our van is dead. There’s no Easter Sunday resurrection in its future. Instead, I dusted off my old road bike and took it to a shop in Scone. They specialize two things: selling nature paintings and fixing bicycles. The place is almost as interesting as the guy who tunes…

I tucked my 2 favorite little people into bed tonight. I read Shawna the story about Abram telling the Egyptians that Sarai wasn’t his wife. We talked about lying; and about how God takes care of us, even when we’re afraid to do the right thing; and about not marrying your sibling. I told Elijah…

I’ve been invited to present a seminar at a missional church conference this weekend in Guelph. It’s being put on by the United Brethren Church in Canada. I spent the first twenty years of my life learning from the leaders and servants in that tribe. Needless to say, I’m feeling a bit sentimental. I’m co-presenting…

Some of my recent thoughts on measuring growth: “We need new ways of measuring church success. In a large church, Sunday morning attendance indicates an ability to attract people. We give them excellent music and dynamic preaching. And Christians come. Then, when we measure our effectiveness we ask, ‘are people coming to church?’ We rarely ask, ‘are those…

Recently, I’ve had a few of the hardest days of my year. At first I thought I was losing my mind: small comments seemed to irritate me, my heart felt strangely heavy, and I couldn’t focus on simple details. My counselor suggested that I might be experiencing the initial stages of burn out. So, I…