When my brilliant pastor-friend recommended this book to me, I must confess to my shame that I responded with skepticism. The only work I had ever read by Peterson was…
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Some of my favourite conversations as Formission Director are the heart-to-hearts I get to have with parishioners and leaders when they pose the inevitable question, “What is Formission about, anyway?” …
I have the privilege of being the assistant pastor of Glad Tidings Church in Lab City, “a church for all people with enough love to go around.” Not content to…
The years are adding up. Decades now. Involvement in small groups ministry has been a constant in my life for some time. But this has made me nowhere near an…
On the thirteenth of July, I found myself standing next to a massive television propped up on a two shelved trolley, guards at the door, in a room with a…
“We must release our children to reach their generation.” My now adult children were teens when I read this “somewhere.” It was timely. It was powerful. It was necessary. It…
I love to cook, and Cheryl loves to bake. It is very in line with our personalities. I am the creative, the visionary, the experimenter. She is the administrator, the…
Definitions It is no secret that ministry is about relationships; the foundation of which is our relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. It is because of the reconciliation of our…
I like big churches. In fact, the only churches I’ve ever attended have been big churches. Most of those churches have been around 100 people. I guess it’s a matter…
Doctrine. It’s an ugly word to some in Pentecostal circles which conjures up thoughts of institutionalized religion and a quenching of the Spirit’s work. The idea circulates that that doctrine…
