Cookies and prayer

Cookies and prayer

Job descriptions are important. Sometimes we ask God to do the stuff he expects us to do. God funnels the little stuff we’re supposed to do into something called obedience. He calls the trust we exercise while obeying him in the little stuff dependence. He...
“Listen in” as I do my devotions, live.

“Listen in” as I do my devotions, live.

I’m going to try something interesting. I hope. I’m going to have my devotions right here, right now, in front of you. Lately I’ve been working through I Timothy, so I’m gonna open that up, open my heart, and see what happens. Ah, Father. I...

Permission slip-ups

Over the past few days I’ve been mulling over the idea of giving oneself permission. I think permission can be explored like two sides of a coin (in my case, a Canadian quarter). 🙂 HEADS I’m human. Very. So I should give myself permission to be human....

Our community

Four years ago, Shauna and I started a Life Group in our home. We were convinced that the best front door the church has are the ones leading into a living room, so we opened ours up. And served really good cake. It began partly out of necessity. We’d just moved...