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Questioning the biblical basis of the Left Behind movie series and its...
As the latest movie in the Left Behind series is scheduled to launch on October 3, 2014, I’ve been thinking once again about its primary theme of ‘rapture theology.’ In my previous post, I highlighted...
View ArticleStuff Jesus Said: #1 – Get Over Yourself
“If your first concern is to look after yourself, you’ll never find yourself. But if you forget about yourself and look to me, you’ll find both yourself and me” (Matthew 10:39 – Jesus Christ). This...
View ArticleStuff Jesus Didn’t Say – #2 ‘I don’t get mad, I get even’
Have you ever been wronged? I’m confident that most, if not all of you, would say yes. For those who have, Jesus provides us with a quick and decisive response. “Love your enemies” In Matthew’s account...
View ArticleChanging Seasons – On the Road of Change
The fall season is my favorite time of year, and always has been. Even as a child and teenager growing up in Newfoundland, I fondly remember the beautiful colors of the season, spending time in the...
View ArticleTop Ten Books that Changed my Life
I know it sounds dramatic, but it’s true. Each of the ten books I’ve outlined below (actually twelve), in one way or another, have changed the course of my life. They have caused a shift in what and...
View ArticleChurch Symbols and Stop Signs: We Need Both
In Eugene Peterson’s book, The Pastor, he highlighted the various stages that went into the construction process of their first church building. For instance, he described how much thought went into...
View ArticleWhat’s in your hand?
I love reading the story in Matthew 15 about Jesus’s feeding of the 4000. The basic premise is that thousands of people were following Jesus (4000 men, plus women and children), listening to Him speak...
View ArticleLife Lesson: Christian Discipleship is Not About Being Smart
Here are two things I’ve come to learn over the past 20 years – 1) Christian discipleship is not about being smart. 2) Two degrees in Christian theology isn’t a one-way ticket to Christlikeness. I...
View ArticleThe Renewing Power of a Shattered Dream
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the dreams, aspirations, plans, and hopes we all have in life. One of the things I’m learning again is that there are seasons in life when things simply do not...
View Article3 Lessons I’m Learning About God, Faith and Doubt
I always thought I had come to know too much about God to ever walk away from the faith, until a trigger event happened and everything changed. My theology of suffering was strong, but that meant...
View ArticleThe Ottawa Shooting, Hatred and Choosing a Better Way
“Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.” “The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending...
View Article3 Lessons I’m Learning from the Jian Ghomeshi Story
I’ve been watching and reading the news lately relative to the removing of Jian Ghomeshi from the CBC and wanted to share a few thoughts. 1.) I’m not the judge or jury. Who is guilty of what will...
View ArticleElevator People, New Eyes and Restored Images
I was standing in an elevator in a Las Vegas hotel and immediately looked to my right at the middle-aged man next to me. There was nothing peculiar about him that would make him stand out, but he did....
View ArticleThe Place of Christianity in the Canadian Political Process
Christians have often struggled with living in a society that has been consistently opposed to biblical concepts and ideals. The New Testament, particularly Luke’s account in the Book of Acts, is...
View ArticleNo Walls Needed: The Ten Commandments, Evangelism by Force and Walking Away...
I’m just going to say it…Placing the ten commandments on the walls of our schools or attempting to force people to recite the Lord’s Prayer in public spaces, is not the way to spread Christianity....
View ArticleThe Danger of Seeking God
The danger of seeking God comes when the picture or conception of God we have formulated is inaccurate. If we have created an image of God built around little more than our own psychological...
View ArticleThe Holy Spirit as the Catalyst for a Jesus-Shaped Life
When we sing lyrics that prayerfully asks God to make us more like Jesus, I wonder if we really understand what we’re asking for? I wonder if we fully grasp the implications of what our prayer entails?...
View Article3 Ways in Which the Absence of Liturgy is Hurting the Contemporary Church
I was raised in a non-liturgically based Christian denomination and have since spent the vast majority of my adult life in a Pentecostal/Charismatic context. Suffice it to say I was not well-versed in...
View Article7 Things to Remember about God and the Problem of Pain
Pain – we are all equally subject to it. It is vitally important, therefore, to establish a view of pain and suffering that does justice to God’s character, the witness of scripture and our experience...
View ArticleSickness, Tragedy and Jesus: Placing the Blame Where it Belongs
When good comes from bad, it doesn’t mean that the bad was part of God’s design; that God orchestrated it or needed it. It simply means that God has the unique ability to take the bad, redeem it, and...
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