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Moving to Ottawa!

… in about 4 years. It sounds a long way off, but plans need to be underway for an effective transition. This still fits in with the ’30 year plan’, with some slight adjustments. This also puts a timeframe in terms of what we hope to accomplish and the relationships we long to build while [...]

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Homeless in the city…

I joined the university kids for The Lord’s Table sandwich run ministry downtown yesterday. It’s been a while since the last time I’ve spent a night directly in contact with the homeless. Many of them were lying up against the office buildings. The images of cardboard shelters, tired looking faces, and dirty hands – against [...]

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Crazy old man…

I went to a conference this weekend and one of the guest speakers was Paul Henderson, the hockey dude who scored the ‘goal of the century’ for Canada in ’72. He was awesome. In sixty-year-old-man-rhetoric, he was speaking about how as Christians we are not here to ‘fiddle & fart around’, but to impact people [...]

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Known by our Faith…

The Lord’s message rang out from you not only in Macedonia and Achaia–your faith in God has become known everywhere.” (1 Thessalonians 1:8) I pray that as we live out the gospel, by the power of the Holy Spirit and conviction, our church community might become known by our faith in God – not by [...]

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From Colossians 1

“We pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in everyway…” (Col 1:10) It’s hard to picture what that looks like, “a life worthy of the Lord”, but I think Paul answers it immediately by “pleasing him in everyway”. This may look different for all [...]

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