If you are like me, you have been flooded with messages over the past few days about the COVID – 19 and its impact on so many different areas of our lives. I have been told to stay home, to…
Clarke McGregor Kennedy 1930 – 2020 On Tuesday February 25, my father-in-law went to be with his Lord. I am reposting an entry that I wrote about four years ago as a tribute to him. He was in hospital at…
http://clipart-library.com/clipart/440032.htm I received a compliment a few weeks ago and I still have a smile on my face every time that I think about it. I don’t intend to stop thinking about it any time soon. We all receive our…
http://clipart-library.com/clipart/385716.htm Every job has its pressures. The challenge isn’t finding that job without pressures. It is finding the one with the pressures that you are uniquely equipped to handle. I have come to the point in my ministry in which…
http://clipart-library.com/clipart/1805787.htm I just finished reading a chapter in my favourite book on leadership. I am reading through it for my fifth time because every time that I read it, I learn something new. The book is Dr. Henry Cloud’s Integrity:…
Photo by Hannah Rodrigo on Unsplash As a pastoral student at Ontario Bible College, I remember my prof telling us that a pastor should never have any friendships in the church. Basically the pastor was there to treat everyone the…
clipart-library.com/n755598.htm I am currently taking part in an online discussion forum. The subject that I am dealing with is The Small Church: Urban & Rural. There are many other topics but that is the one that they asked me to…
It has been a long time since I last wrote a blog entry and a lot has happened since then. September found me in the emergency ward of the hospital suffering from an intense pain in my back. It was…
http://www.freebibleimages.org/ Nancy Cunningham/Rachel Coate/BasicTrainingBible Ministries Our starting point when we share the gospel with someone in most cases shapes that person’s understanding of the Christian life. When I was in the early years of my ministry, I heard advice that…
http://clipart-library.com/clipart/n1010502.htm About five weeks ago I entered into what has been both a new and also an interesting experience in my life. I woke up in the middle of the night with severe pain in my back. I was about…