It completely floored me when Ruth Ewertt of Yonge Street Mission shared that from a survey she helped conduct that “if youth felt a sense of love or belonging at home, even with physical or sexual abuse, they most likely would not run away and end up homeless.”

Everything in me tells me that [...]

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Stellar has a bib that says “Saturday” across it. Look carefully at what it says when the car seat straps are around her.

It says “turd”! Someone else pointed this out at a baby shower party we were at.
Here are some other pictures with her new friend Cayden.

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Leaders see people as they really are, as God’s workmanship crafted with a unique purpose in human history.
Whether a believer or not, leaders see every human being as a reflection of the Creator, brimming with potential. Leaders look into people’s hearts and lives and help reveal to them their beauty and worth.
What do you really [...]

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Many people have been commenting on my Faux-Hawk recently. To be quite honest, since I shaved my head, my hair just started growing back this way. I wake up, and there it is. I’ve never put any product in it. I didn’t even know what a faux-hawk was [...]

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I’m teaching a series of classes of classes this March on “Experiencing God through the Creative Journey“.
If anyone else has any ideas on creatively teaching creativity, whether it’s through biblical foundations, practical expressions, or corporate experiences that can be facilitated, I’d love to hear about them.
The current session titles are:
Creativity through the Creator God
Creativity through [...]

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I couldn’t care less about Valentine’s day, but I sure do care about my wife. This year I went all out and took her to Susur. Susur Lee has a number of accolades including top ten chef in the world, with the number one restaurant in Toronto, and one of the top fifty [...]

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Christian leadership can often be a haven for dysfunctional people. Moral integrity is a primal baseline for leadership. Without an inward life that is whole and healthy, the act of leadership can often be merely an escape route. Leadership can become a way of avoiding issues of sin or even lead to [...]

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This is a repost from my old blog, but worth retelling.
Several weeks ago my wife caught me in the act. I never thought I would do something like this, let alone have Yvz see me this way…
One of the deciding factors in us purchasing a ps2 recently, was my wife’s obsession with the game [...]

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Leaders must not only take responsibility of their own lives, but that of others around them. As leaders progress in their journey they see things as they really are. They become highly tuned to their own strengths and limitations. However against the backdrop of a dying world, what they see most, is [...]

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That’s the city of Ottawa for my non-Canadian friends. Quite possibly my future home.
As the years go by I’ve felt more tentative about church planting in Ottawa. Although I managed to see some excellent friends there, as well as fellow voxtropolitan Nate, my roots there seem to have shrunken and many people I [...]

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