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…

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…

PODCAST (42) Dont Lose Your Family, Metal Detecting, Jewish Discipleship

Podcast Link Here Serve a church, but lose your family. We’re Reach going to reach a city/town, but somehow ou children moved away from the gospel. Andy Has been out hunting for treasures. What he has found so far wasn’t Gold! A Messianic Jew tells us the one definition of Discipleship. He claimed Jews had…

“By Our Children” – Not – “Bye, Our children!”

And ……. BY THEIR CHILDREN! Psalm 90:16-17, CSB translation says it all. I really wish I could be jolly and optimistic for the church in the Canadian maritimes. I wish i could write about all the good things curbing the tide (there are good stories), because those are the superstar blog posts that our CEO…

Christmas Division, Danger, Disruption!

Have we ever had a Christmas like this? A time when the government is making decrees about what we can and cannot do. Where we shall and shall not go.  With who, and how many we can gather with. In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the…

Is Shepherding Of Your Soul Even Desired?

I was present at a wonderfully encouraging seminar on “Ministering Through Visitation”, with PHD, Dr. Jack Whytock. It prompted a lot of raw thoughts and many questions. Keep in mind that this article is NOT about how to shepherd during this virus. Rather the bigger picture on this subject. Dr. Whytock was really pushing for…

Killed Over A Marriage Speech

Agree or not, at least be informed of what we really say, and did, historically and scripturally as Jesus followers, followers of “The Way”. The profound ignorance among even “church goers” on this subject is an attribute to the great irrelivance of the modern church to guide and inform people of much about anything with…

PODCAST (39) Rising Above Anxiety & Fear With Milton Clark

Today we have a conversation with Clinical Social Worker, Milton Clark, from Edmonton Alberta. There are stresses, anxiety, angers, resentments, and fears that really cause a person to struggle, enter depression, rob our joy and enthusiasm. Life and relationships are hard at times. When we are faced with the realization that choices we made in…

The Specifics Of Love

“As Saint Francis (Assisi) did not love humanity but men, so he did not love Christianity but Christ.” – Chesterton That is the difference. Some people are hyped up about an idea, an ideology, a faceless problem. Yet the only way to contribute is for you and me to not love the vague, faceless “humanity”…