Regrets: For what we did or did not do. Lester taught me to make bannock and about regret. Being the eldest in an indigenous family,...

I’m taken by how many times the Apostle Paul references Jesus in the opening comments of his letters to the church—nine times in nine...

Several years ago, I marked a passage in the New Testament Book of Acts. I re-read it a few days ago. The note in the margin says: "I...

Several Things That Stand In The Way As a child, I was attracted to Pentecostalism because of the vitality and participation of the...

Anyone who has served in pastoral ministry for any length recognizes that the church calendar's fall season brings an avalanche of...

Many years ago, I was in an early morning prayer meeting. A dear elderly saint, who often carried a sandwich board on the streets of...

I am a fan of bicycle racing. The Tour De France is the most famous. Because most of these races take place in Europe 8-10 hours ahead,...

When it comes to assessing mental health in the local church, we need to be cognisant of the fact that we are assessing, not diagnosing....

In 2017, www.expastors.com published the results of a pastoral survey they had done. Here are two of the questions, along with the...

In 2011 I hiked with two friends, Mark, and David, to the summit of Kilimanjaro: 19,340 feet/5895 meters. We took 6 days, 4 to summit and...

I do a lot of end-of-life care. This season has been hectic. Though I do not know for sure, I suspect the pandemic's strain is the...

We who lead others spiritually are not always so good at sharing our feelings, sometimes just talking about stuff. Yet studies, history,...

Parker Palmer writes: "But the seeds of possibility planted with such hope in the fall must eventually endure winter, when the potentials...

Marathons have mile markers for a reason. A runner may be absolutely exhausted. Your tank is near empty. Your muscles are screaming. Your...

Often, when we think ‘destruction,’ God is thinking ‘construction.’ It was a red-letter day in my life when I realized that a complete...

If crisis reveals character, this is certainly the season for exposing our true nature. Organizational structures and we who populate...

Christopher Columbus was 41 years old when he embarked on his first voyage to discover a new passage to the far East. It was a perilous,...

It has been said many times, perhaps too many times in the past year; we are living in unsettling times. Words and phrases like Pivot,...

Do you remember the T.V. show, Candid Camera? It was so popular that it ran for fifty years. It was based on trickery. After someone had...

In 2016, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer and underwent a complete prostatectomy. The wisdom lessons that God offered me before,...