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.

Last week I listened to a CBC Ideas episode called The Truth about “Post-Truth”. As I listened, I thought about church. The host was interviewing Jason Stanley, Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. The whole 54:00 is worth hearing but in case you don’t have time, here’s what grabbed my attention: (Around 22:50) “A liberal democratic society…

I receive a lot of “we’ve picked you” e-mails. For example, “you’ve been selected as a distinguished professional” or “congratulations, you have been chosen to receive a large sum of cash.” I know the tag lines so well that I don’t give the subject a second look before it gets permanently filed in my junk…
I’m preaching this weekend. Since our lead pastor left, I’ve had some extra opportunities to speak. I’m thrilled because I love getting up and yacking behind the pulpit. I love taking a biblical text and wrestling with it until one of us has come away mastered by the other. Usually I’m gripped by a…

I met with our Walkerton Coffeehouse lead team tonight. The lead team is the core group of people who will be organizing our coffeehouse church gatherings. In the next 3 months we’re hoping to establish a viable community of Jesus followers with this mandate: “foster community among people who live or work in Walkerton; nurture…

This morning we sang the song “Lay it down” during two of our worship services. The words of that song resonate deeply with the questions I’m currently asking: questions like, “Who am I?”, “Where is God calling me?”, and “What is God asking of me?” Personal recognition and ambition often get in the way of…

It feels strange watching my wife play our shooting gallery wii game while I edit this blog post. It feels even weirder knowing that she got a bronze medal and I didn’t. In other news, it was our daughter’s 8th birthday today. Erika spent it downstairs slaving away on business related work. I, on the…