All Episodes
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Silence: Letting Go and Letting God
We live in a world filled with noise. Between music and media, traffic, lawn care, construction, people (and more!) we experience barely a moment of silence in our reg...
Prayer: Finding Peace in the Face of Panic
Martin Luther once wrote that we ought to "Work as though everything depends on us, because it does. But pray as though everything depends on God, because it does." Be...
Bible Reading: Living An Anchored Life
How many of us find ourselves constantly bombarded with news and social media posts that feel disproportionately tilted towards bad news? Pay too much attention and yo...
Working Out At Home
Conventional wisdom says that "You can't teach old dogs new tricks," that once we've developed the ruts of our lives, those ruts pretty well dictate who we are and wha...
Easter Sunday 2020
An early Sunday morning that changed the course of human history; that is what we celebrate at Easter. There's no weekend more significant in the life of the church, s...
Good Friday 2020
Good Friday is an opportunity to reflect, contemplate, and embrace the significance of Jesus's death on the cross. It's a chance to appreciate his loving sacrifice thr...
Investing in an Era of Instability
The Novel Coronavirus is literally sweeping through every area of life. It is spreading all across the globe, and touching every area of life. It is affecting us physi...
Trust in a Time of Uncertainty
Many people don’t like surprises. Most people struggle with change. Even those who enjoy change, only enjoy it when they are fully in control of every aspect of it, wh...
Faithfulness in the Face of Fear
The world is a different place than it was even a week ago, with rules and protocols changing sometimes by the hour.. The Coronavirus (or COVID-19) has transformed the...
The Spiritual Gymnasium
What comes to mind when you think of a typical Sunday morning church service? Perhaps you think of it like a classroom where you learn about God, or a concert where yo...
Family Meeting
From time to time, every family needs to come together for a family meeting to clear the air, address conflict , and re-establish family rules and values. As Paul conc...
Choosing Adoption
It's said that you can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family. But that's not entirely true, at least, not when it comes to adoption. In adoption, people wh...
Sibling Rivalry
Some family members are "born into" more privilege than others. Parents shouldn't, but often act as though they have favourites. Firstborns are often entrusted with th...
Family Rules
Every good family has a set of rules, written or unwritten, that structure family life and embody the family values. As the kids grow into adults, they may leave the s...
The Apple That Falls Far From The Tree
If you know the parents, it can often be pretty easy to see the family resemblance in the lives of the children. As the saying goes, "the apple doesn't fall far from t...
Finding Your Roots
Hopefully all of us, regardless of our experiences with our biological families, had people who were "family" to us. Think about your best times with the people you ca...
Love Together
Getting by on your own seems fine when you're getting by, but when life throws a curve ball we all need someone who has our back. What if we related in such a way that...
Pray Together
Weather, sports, and gossip: they're the conversations that consume us. We may long for friendships and confidants to process the deeper things, but most of us find ou...
Eat Together ~ Chris Fowler
Fast food: it's the epitome of a culture with no time to eat. And whether you hit the drive thru or not, most of us live at a pace with no room for "slow cooking." But...
Eat Together ~ Mike Meinema
Fast food: it's the epitome of a culture with no time to eat. And whether you hit the drive thru or not, most of us live at a pace with no room for "slow cooking." But...
Eat Together ~ Rick Zwiers
Fast food: it's the epitome of a culture with no time to eat. And whether you hit the drive thru or not, most of us live at a pace with no room for "slow cooking." But...
Better Together
Some might say we live in the age of connection, with advancements in technology and vast social opportunities making it easier than ever to connect. But whether we're...
FOR Niagara - Year In Review
As 2019 draws to a close, what can we learn from the year that was? How has God grown us, challenged us, and inspired us to experience more of the life we were created...
Making the Invisible Visible
Christmas is a magical time, and everything we see adds to the excitement: Christmas lights up and down the streets, trees and decorations filling people's homes, part...
Hope Rises
We are called to be ambassadors of hope: to right wrongs, heal hearts, bring peace to chaos, love to the excluded and mercy to the broken. But what does it really take...
How Difference Making Happens
It's easy to feel paralyzed by the problems of our world, helpless to make any real difference or affect any lasting change. It's one thing to become aware of devasta...
This Time It's Personal
It's a classic story. "I never really gave it much thought, until it happened to someone I love." We can so easily walk through life, surrounded by some of the greates...
The Struggle Is Real
You don’t have to look too hard to see how that our world is in crisis. Endless wars, sexual violence, modern day slavery, addiction, depression, debt, disease, from c...
The Full Extent of Grace
From the world of fashion, music and art to food, technology and design, there’s a common axiom that drives excellence: less is more. Words like simplicity and minimal...
A Non-Traditional Gospel
From how we celebrate Christmas and birthdays to who sits where at the dinner table, human beings are hard-wired to embrace traditions. Traditions are our link to the ...
