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Week Three
Jesus said that, if His followers would stand together as one unified community, the watching world would be compelled to believe in God’s love. Unity was such a high ...
Week Two
Jesus said that, if His followers would stand together as one unified community, the watching world would be compelled to believe in God’s love. Unity was such a high ...
Week One
Jesus said that, if His followers would stand together as one unified community, the watching world would be compelled to believe in God’s love. Unity was such a high ...
Simplicity: Practicing Contentment
How many times have you asked someone how they're doing, only to have them reply, "Busy." For how many of us is that our regular answer too? So much of our lives have ...
Sabbath: Relishing the Power of Unproductivity
Many of us have had to acclimatize to this weird dynamic of "working from home," or being home and trying to get work done (as well as homeschooling and/or parenting a...
Fasting: Embracing the Wisdom of Going Without
There are probably more than a few of us who have found that, with our schedules freed up, the one activity that is not canceled is consuming. We snack because we are ...
Celebration: Confronting Complaining with Gratitude
It is easy to go negative when life isn't going the way that we had hoped. Emotions like fear, envy, greed, entitlement, resentment, anger, and regret seem to live jus...
Solitude: Discovering God's Presence in the Absence
We live in a world where there seem to be a million ways to maintain relationships. Whether it's Netflix Party, Houseparty, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Skype, FaceTime, tex...
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...
