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Marks of Salvation (1 Thessalonians 1:1-5)
Faith, love, and hope as visible marks of God's transforming work.
Church, Who Are We Celebrating?
I saw a post on X a while back (I wish I had saved it) where the poster lamented for the future of Evangelicalism because he felt that no great leaders were stepping up to replace…
Idols & Circumstances: A Devotional through Habakkuk
“What’s going on God?” is what I wish I would ask when life stops making sense to me. To my discredit, more often than not, I get angry and depressed. As we follow Jesus through ev…
Rediscovering Confessions
One Sunday, after our church worship service a visitor came up to me to enquire about our church. One of his first questions was whether we were “confessional.” I put that around q…
Give a Little Christmas Grace
What are we celebrating this month? What is all this for? You know, understanding the meaning of Christmas is actually a challenge for most people who will be celebrating it these…
When is Division Okay?
With the recent mandates in Quebec that churches only allow vaccinated persons access to worship gatherings, the issue of division within the church is rearing its ugly head. I add…
A Mandate to Exclude
The church in Quebec finds itself in unprecedented times. For those readers who are unaware, as of December 26, churches have been mandated by the Quebec government to screen visit…
Divine Suffering
This past year, I’ve been trying to get more into cooking. You know, the more stereotypically “manly” kind of cooking; steaks, ribs, grill-master stuff. As part of this journey to…
Thoughts on the Ravi Zacharias Scandal
It’s been five days now since Christianity Today reported on the final investigation of RZIM into the allegations of sexual abuse against Ravi Zacharias (link here). I encourage ev…
Cultivating a Servant Heart
I think one of the biggest misconceptions about spiritual disciplines is that they are all some kind of meditative, almost esoteric, type of practice. When this is the image of spi…
Finding God in Stillness
In my past few posts of this series we’ve explored, pretty robustly, the purpose and inspiration behind the spiritual disciplines. If you’re like me and 99% of people out there, yo…
In The Footsteps of Jesus
I’m back with part three in our exploration of the Spiritual Disciplines. Believe me when I say I’m just as eager to dig into specific practices as you are, but before we do there…
Motivation for Spiritual Disciplines
As we begin to explore spiritual disciplines as a way of life, I first ought to address some of the Evangelical suspicions against them. Hopefully in doing so, naysayers can be con…
What Are Spiritual Disciplines?
SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES PART 1