When I Don’t Want To Grow Up, My Christian Community Asks Me Why?

“Christian Community was pivotal to God’s process of transformation, but sadly, this level of accountability to a community of Believers has disappeared from many of our churches.” Rex Whitman Regarding his Myth #2 and #4 (see below) I will too often grant MYSELF a much longer rope into sin (or flirting with it) and a…

IS Bi-Vocational Ministry A Half Effort?

Rabbis had a day job? According to this video i link below, He said they worked a trade also. My hunch is that we should probably add the word “Often”, they often worked another job. By the way this guy is supposed to be the KT Norris Lecturer 2024 year in May, on Prince Edward…

It’s Rebuilding, Not Joining!

Apple pie, Coffee, and scriptures  and 3.23AM are a quality combination in my book. I have time to think, with four Romans commentaries, an ESV study Bible, and Jack Cottrell’s systematic Theology (The Faith Once For All) open on the kitchen table in front of me. And a few articles written by Christians on Canada,…

A Tattooed Farmer’s Faith of Gold

I have a friend who had some real health struggles. It led to a very low point in his life, hard on him and his family. A lot of surgeries, immobility, and powerful medical drugs with huge side-effects. We met with them for dinner on their 27th wedding anniversary. What a delightful visit! We had…

PODCAST (50) Jeff Frazee, Doing The Hard Things, Family Growth, Sawmilling, Fishing, Salvation (SPECIAL 50th EDITION)

CELEBRATE WITH ME MY 50TH EPISODE LINK HERE I cannot think of an episode I have been more excited about than this Telegram Audio conversation with Jeff Frazee. It is the kind of conversations I want to have, and he is the hero of this episode because of his thoughtfulness, wisdom, and experience. He pushes…

PODCAST # (48) Ross Morisson How A Tree Stump In Cape Breton Became An Alter For Christ

Podcast Link (48) Ross Morisson How A Tree Stump In Cape Breton Became An Alter For Christ From a Tree Stump, in the highlands of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, Ross Morrison, came out of the forests of the Highlands where he worked in forestry and silviculture, because he found Christ in the Middle of creation,…

(47) Gordon Weatherby – Can We Even Pass On Our Faith Anymore?

LINK. 47) Gordon Weatherby – Can We Even Pass On Our Faith Anymore The secret studio….. at an undisclosed location, has Gordon Weatherby back In The Cockpit again.  Gordon has been on the podcast before…. in Episode (31) Gordon Weatherby – The Twice Baptized Double Dipped Preacher-man  Go back and check out that episode, as…

Become The Best Sit & Soaker?

This quote reminds me of the timeI SHUT DOWN A Home Church!Yes I did!Needed to be done too.They wanted the normal, ” THE DO IT FOR ME, DO IT TO ME CHURCH MODEL” (Where someone else does all the study, all the work preparing, presenting, offering programs or lessons, and I merely plunk down. And…

Spreading Our Legs For Everything? Why Pietism Doesn’t Lead To Holiness!

“For long ago I broke your yoke; I tore off your chains. You insisted, “I will not serve!” On every high hill and under every green tree you lay down like a prostitute.” Jeremiah 2:20 I don’t think our Pietist (1). influenced Christianity would ever allow us to repeat this passage to a person as…

“You Are Not Being Persecuted!” PART #2

This missionary really has that phrase stuck in my Craw…. This is A cheeky mini series of three Parts. This is Part Two…. more reflections on the previous post Part #1 Here “Just Getting What You Deserve” and Part #3 What John The Baptist Got Wrong? —————– A person told me that HR went through…