Our daily routines, schedules, finances, school, work, etc. have all been changed. What we once took for granted or held close has shifted and, in some ways, this may be a good thing. As I have been reading through 1 and 2 Kings, it has been extremely evident to me that the peoples of Israel and Judah had both forsaken the one true God over and over again, in exchange for worthless, false gods.
Read morePeace in the Midst of a Crisis
But in the middle of experiencing the realities of COVID-19, is it really a good thing for fear to be “plaguing” our minds? On a recent Dave Ramsey podcast, he mentioned that this is less a pandemic of COVID-19 and more a pandemic of hysteria and panic. So Jesus asks you and I, “What are you so afraid of?” and “Who is your faith in?”
Read moreTrusting in the Face of Uncertainty
Bad news seems almost inescapable as it plagues every news channel and social media platform. For me, it’s easy to submit to a state of panic and disappointment as feelings of anxiety are amplified in the silence of loneliness.
Read moreWhat can you do today to show love?
We say “I love…” easily: I love my wife, I love my kids, I love my work, I would love to sit down in Swiss Chalet tonight and have a 1/4 white meat chicken with a caesar salad (but I can’t, because I’m practising self-isolation). But during this unprecedented time, we have a great opportunity to show the truth of our love, by our actions.
Read moreForgiveness and Mental Health
What does forgiveness look like? Why should we forgive those who have hurt us (especially in the case of a deep, severe hurt)? Well these aren’t easy questions, but they are real questions we wrestle with throughout out life.
Read moreObserving Lent—An Ancient Practice
Lent is a season where we choose to surrender some common activities or consumptions that serve as scaffolding that prop up our life. It’s a concerted effort to dismantle the false dependencies that have supported us for too long and exchange the false supports for a greater dependency on Jesus. For some we surrender our dependency on coffee, for others it’s potato chips, or social media and for some really brave souls—it’s Netflix!
Read moreChoosing Surrender Over Control
If you’re anything like me, you crave control. Whether it be within your own life and personal outcomes, or the decisions of those around you; there is a burning desire within you to make things go your way. I like to think of myself as a recovered control freak but let’s be real—I can still colour coordinate with the best of them.
Read moreThe Ruthless Elimination of Hurry
Psychologists actually believe now that we suffer from something called hurry sickness, which is defined as a behaviour pattern characterized by continual rushing and anxiousness, or an uncomfortable feeling in which someone feels chronically short of time, and so tends to perform every task faster and to get flustered when encountering any kind of delay. Does this at all sound familiar?
Read moreOne Life—Live it Well!
Our first blog for 2020 is not intended to be a downer, but a simple call to make the most of our one and only life. In fact, each Sunday morning in January, we’re exploring how we can ‘make the most of our one and only life.’ We get one body and we should care for it! Failure is a certainty in the year ahead—but how we bounce back is our choice!
Read moreSet Free!
Sin is not satisfied until it dominates and controls us! It’s typically our own sins from the past that remain unprocessed or the sins of others that have impacted us personally that we have left unaddressed that have the power to enslave us in the present.
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