I have been a Christian for almost four decades and for the last quarter-century, the majority of the time I have been involved in pastoral ministry. I have seen trends come and go. I have seen colleagues come and go but based on what has happened in our world with this pandemic, I can honestly…
There was a truck driver who attended the first church I pastored. He came across as a pretty simple guy. He was a contractor whose job it was to haul everything from gravel for building roads to oil rigs and to remove logs from the construction of said roads. This man was no “theologian,” but…
As I write this, it is 4:40 in the morning at my son’s home in Calgary. I came down from Edmonton yesterday for a visit and to sit in some lectures at the seminary. On my way down, just north of Red Deer, I encountered a white out. The wind had picked up quite a…
Let me start by asking everyone a question: “Which one of your parents do you look more like? Which one are you like in your personality? In our humanness, we take on much of our looks and personality from the genetic material each of our parents contributes. In many ways, I don’t look much like…
I like many people have what is lovingly called a “junk drawer.” It is a drawer in the kitchen or in the workshop where all the “thing-a-ma-jigs” and “what-cha-ma-call-its” go. They are the odds and ends we find that if we were asked what they were for, we probably couldn’t give an answer. Whenever I…