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.

Where is God when disaster strikes? That’s one of the conversation topics we’ll be tackling at tonight’s coffeehouse gathering. The whole “you never know when things are going to turn bad” thing is a running theme these days at HMC. This morning we held all three of our services in the church shed. Normally the…

It’s reading week. Every year EBC students and faculty get a week off from classes: once in the fall and once in the spring. I decided to take my last week of holidays from the church to coincide with my reading week. Here’s what I’ve been up to:Cutting firewoodPlaying Dora CandylandDreaming with Erika about the…

Now that my contract as interim lead pastor has been extended, I thought it would be appropriate to share how I’m feeling and how it has affected my family life. The details: on March 1st I moved from being the director of worship and the arts to the role of interim lead pastor. It was…

My family spent our labour day in Owen Sound hanging out with longtime friends. While we were waiting to eat, I chatted with someone who was part of the Owen Sound church I pastored. After some informal chit-chat, she made a bold statement. She said, “You were way ahead of your time. You saw things…

I’m finally finished. I set a goal for myself back a year or two ago to read through Eugene Peterson’s 5 volume spiritual theology series. Tonight I turned the last page in my final book, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places. If you know anything about the series you’ll know that this book is actually…

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…