All Episodes
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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 ~ 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...
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...
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 ...
A Generous Movement
It's been said recently that trust is less like a bank account, where you deposit trust points to be withdrawn at a later time, and more like a water balloon, where ev...
A Welcome Change
According to a recent survey, nearly 90% of unchurched people say that the term "judgmental" accurately describes Christians today and only 20% of outsiders view the c...
An Integral Shift
In his book UnChristian, Dave Kinnaman claims that Christianity has an image problem. His leading accusation is that too many Christians are hypocritical, saying, "our...
Vision Night
After an inspiring time of music and sharing, part of Vision Night was hearing from each of our departments and what it means for them to be 'faithful in the small' as...
Imagine A Church...
For decades, we've operated under a deeply held belief that, if people saw the God of the Bible as He is, they would run TO him, instead of AWAY from him. The problem ...
Hitting the Refresh Button
If you’ve seen the movie, “Groundhog Day”, you know the feeling of being trapped in an endless cycle of doing the same thing over and over again, every single day. But...
Refreshing Your Connection
Some people say that faith is a personal and private matter. But the Bible is clear when we embrace Jesus we are automatically included in the church as full-fledged f...
A Fresh Response
There’s nothing quite as refreshing as jumping in a lake, a pool or even a cool shower on a hot summer day. There’s just something about being submerged in water that ...
A Faith Refresher
We are told that we can do anything, as long as we just believe. But what in the world are we to believe in? If any and all ideas about faith, God, truth and eternity ...
A Fresh Look
It is core to the human experience to at least from time to time wonder if there’s more to life than what we’re currently experiencing. More than waking up, going to w...
