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Shepherds or leaders or both?
Terminology is important. What we call ourselves says a lot about how we view our role. Marci and I do our daily Bible reading with the help of the Bible Reading Fellowship’s ‘New Daylight‘ notes. This...
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‘Did you, like, fall over or something?’
In the first few episodes of the brilliant TV series ‘West Wing’, there’s a great story line that starts with Sam Seaborn having a one-night-stand with a very attractive young lady. When he leaves her...
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Ministers and Politics
Yesterday a friend whose opinion I respect questioned me about my decision, some months back, to go public on Facebook with my support for the Green Party of Canada. He was surprised that I felt it...
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Are we failing at our primary mission?
The thing that troubles me the most about the condition of the Christian church in 2014 is not our conflicts over gay marriage, or the fact that despite the best efforts of our most knowledgable...
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Christian Leadership
This week the English Anglican world has been all astir with the news that the Church of England is about to appoint (strangely, they don’t elect them over there) its first female bishop. This is old...
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True Leadership
I’ve been reading a really helpful little book by Matt Garvin called ‘6 Radical Decisions: How followers of Christ change the world through Kingdom Cells‘ (available as a paper book from Fusion Canada...
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I Stand by the Door
My friend Erin just reminded me of this poem by the Rev. Sam Shoemaker; he was an Episcopal priest in the mid-20th century; he was a wonderful evangelist and also had a hand in the founding of A.A. and...
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The gospel on the street
I’ve been spending this past weekend with the remarkable people of Street Hope Saint John. When I say ‘remarkable people’, you might be a little surprised. Most of them struggle with addictions of one...
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Wanted: Anglican people in the Diocese of Edmonton who are excited about...
Well, along with being the rector of St. Margaret’s I’m now the Warden of Lay Evangelists for the Diocese of Edmonton. What the heck does that mean? It means that we’re looking for some ordinary...
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Small and evangelistic
I think there has been an unhealthy influx of competitiveness into church life today. It seems that many Christians (and many pastors and priests) are obsessed with better statistics and better...
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A Word of Encouragement
Thursday is the day I prepare my Sunday sermon, but it begins at 7 a.m. with our weekly Men’s Bible Study group at the Bogani Café. I was driving one of the men home this morning after the study, and...
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Pastoral Evangelism
I was trained as an evangelist in the Church Army in Canada (now Threshold Ministries) and served in this role for twelve years before my ordination in 1990. As a Church Army officer I exercised my...
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Wanted: Enthusiastic Christians
Mainline Christendom churches do many excellent things, but one thing we’re not good at doing is making enthusiastic Christians. What I mean is, taking secular people and turning them into enthusiastic...
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True Leadership
I’ve been reading a really helpful little book by Matt Garvin called ‘6 Radical Decisions: How followers of Christ change the world through Kingdom Cells‘ (available as a paper book from Fusion Canada...
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I Stand by the Door
My friend Erin just reminded me of this poem by the Rev. Sam Shoemaker; he was an Episcopal priest in the mid-20th century; he was a wonderful evangelist and also had a hand in the founding of A.A. and...
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The gospel on the street
I’ve been spending this past weekend with the remarkable people of Street Hope Saint John. When I say ‘remarkable people’, you might be a little surprised. Most of them struggle with addictions of one...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Wanted: Anglican people in the Diocese of Edmonton who are excited about...
Well, along with being the rector of St. Margaret’s I’m now the Warden of Lay Evangelists for the Diocese of Edmonton. What the heck does that mean? It means that we’re looking for some ordinary...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Small and evangelistic
I think there has been an unhealthy influx of competitiveness into church life today. It seems that many Christians (and many pastors and priests) are obsessed with better statistics and better...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Word of Encouragement
Thursday is the day I prepare my Sunday sermon, but it begins at 7 a.m. with our weekly Men’s Bible Study group at the Bogani Café. I was driving one of the men home this morning after the study, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pastoral Evangelism
I was trained as an evangelist in the Church Army in Canada (now Threshold Ministries) and served in this role for twelve years before my ordination in 1990. As a Church Army officer I exercised my...
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