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I’m an evangelical Christian because…
I get a little tired sometimes of evangelical Christianity being identified by what it’s against. “You know, they’re the ones who hate gays, and bomb abortion clinics, and oppose teaching evolution in...
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How to ‘Get a Life’ (a sermon on John 6:51-58)
Many of you in church today have had the experience of holding down a very demanding job. Perhaps it requires you to work long hours with lots of overtime; perhaps it cuts into evening hours and...
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It’s Not Always As Simple As We Wish (a sermon on John 6:60-71)
If I had a notebook full of ‘things I hear on a regular basis’, one of the sayings at the top of the list would be this one: ‘Jesus preached a simple message about love and brotherhood, and then the...
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Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing (a sermon on Mark 7:1-23)
One of my favourite quotes from Stephen Covey is ‘The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing!’ It always pulls me up short, because I recognize that so many times in my life I’ve failed to...
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Wanted: Enthusiastic Christians
Mainline Christendom churches do many excellent things, but one thing we’re not good at doing is making enthusiastic Christians. What I mean is, taking secular people and turning them into enthusiastic...
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People deciding to talk
Today’s post was inspired by this post on Seth Godin’s blog. In fact, it is intentionally structured after that post. Today, most churches that are steadily and successfully spreading the good news and...
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Let’s repeat that lesson
I don’t know about you, but I’m more than a little slow to learn things, and I often have to go through lessons more than once. One of the lessons I often find myself repeating is the lesson not to...
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Three models of church – and they’re all true.
This week the clergy of our Diocese of Edmonton have been enjoying a clergy conference with Doug Pagitt as our theme speaker. I think it’s safe to say that Doug was provocative! I liked some of what he...
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We do Jesus and we do prayer
In a recent interview in ‘Christianity Today’ magazine, Dr. George Wood, General Superintendent of the Assemblies of God in the USA, talks about a conversation he had with a Chinese Pentecostal pastor...
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Why am I a Christian – Part 2
Yesterday I answered the question ‘Why am I a Christian?’ in terms of the process by which I became a Christian, outlining very briefly the story of my conversion as a young teenager. This is a very...
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I’m an evangelical Christian because…
I get a little tired sometimes of evangelical Christianity being identified by what it’s against. “You know, they’re the ones who hate gays, and bomb abortion clinics, and oppose teaching evolution in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to ‘Get a Life’ (a sermon on John 6:51-58)
Many of you in church today have had the experience of holding down a very demanding job. Perhaps it requires you to work long hours with lots of overtime; perhaps it cuts into evening hours and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
It’s Not Always As Simple As We Wish (a sermon on John 6:60-71)
If I had a notebook full of ‘things I hear on a regular basis’, one of the sayings at the top of the list would be this one: ‘Jesus preached a simple message about love and brotherhood, and then the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing (a sermon on Mark 7:1-23)
One of my favourite quotes from Stephen Covey is ‘The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing!’ It always pulls me up short, because I recognize that so many times in my life I’ve failed to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Wanted: Enthusiastic Christians
Mainline Christendom churches do many excellent things, but one thing we’re not good at doing is making enthusiastic Christians. What I mean is, taking secular people and turning them into enthusiastic...
View ArticleClik here to view.
People deciding to talk
Today’s post was inspired by this post on Seth Godin’s blog. In fact, it is intentionally structured after that post. Today, most churches that are steadily and successfully spreading the good news and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Let’s repeat that lesson
I don’t know about you, but I’m more than a little slow to learn things, and I often have to go through lessons more than once. One of the lessons I often find myself repeating is the lesson not to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Three models of church – and they’re all true.
This week the clergy of our Diocese of Edmonton have been enjoying a clergy conference with Doug Pagitt as our theme speaker. I think it’s safe to say that Doug was provocative! I liked some of what he...
View ArticleClik here to view.
We do Jesus and we do prayer
In a recent interview in ‘Christianity Today’ magazine, Dr. George Wood, General Superintendent of the Assemblies of God in the USA, talks about a conversation he had with a Chinese Pentecostal pastor...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why am I a Christian – Part 2
Yesterday I answered the question ‘Why am I a Christian?’ in terms of the process by which I became a Christian, outlining very briefly the story of my conversion as a young teenager. This is a very...
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