Next week: Rest

It’s been an exceptionally busy week.


It’s been an exceptionally busy week.

It’s the start of a New Year so, once again, the Mills family set some goals. While I don’t want to give away any of my clan’s ambitious ideas, I will enlighten you with a few of my own. In no particular order: Learn biblical Hebrew. I learned Greek but never took a Hebrew course….

I’m officially in a new office. While I was away on holidays my workspace was relocated (don’t worry, I agreed with the move before I left). My new space has a similar look to the former (squarish space with one window and one door) but now it’s in a low-traffic high-cinderblock laden section of the…

I wrote this for our church website a few months ago: “The church is not a building. It is the community of God on mission.” How would church leadership change if pastors were asked to mobilize people rather than attracted them to Sunday morning services? What if a church community decided to flatten its leadership…
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…

Fear of what people think about me. It can be downright restricting. That’s why I’m giving it up this advent season. I know most people don’t give things up for advent (it’s more of a lent thing) but I think Jesus is calling me into the deeper places. Maybe I caught a mountain parasite or…

A former student in my Owen Sound youth ministry recently queried me about knowing God’s will. He is finishing university and is thinking about going overseas. The possibility of entering a new culture is a huge decision and he’s not sure what to do. Here’s what I told him: 1. Ask God. It’s so obvious:…