perspective and training for the life of the Spirit
In this series on “How Big is Your But?” we’ve looked at the children of Israel’s response to the news from the spies who looked at the giants in the land and said “we looked like grasshoppers in our own eyes and we looked the same to them.” Their response to worry and fear is only significant in how it affects our response today to situations that look impossible. If God has told you to do the difficult are you [...] Read more »
Wynne Lewis was coming to Auckland to visit his son. I hadn’t seen Wynne since the 2002 FCA International Convention I helped organize. We’d exchanged email fairly regularly since. It was only 500 and some km from Palmerston North, so I thought we’d go up for the weekend. Problem is: they don’t believe in straight roads in New Zealand. I was told it was a 9-hour drive. Alberta is flat until you get to the mountains. Nine hours would take [...] Read more »
“What are you passionate about?” Russell Williams asked on his first get-to-know-you visit to our almost empty home. We had been investing in the local economy and had a few appliances and a table to sit around. I hadn’t examined my motives for quite a while. It was all about obedience. God told us to go and we went. What was I passionate about? “It’s been a long time since I’ve allowed myself to be passionate about anything,” was my [...] Read more »
Finding a decent home to rent in Palmerston North had been a difficult task to accomplish. Most of the homes we had checked out were damp, moldy and very stinky. Finally we found one. Needless to say we had down graded from our huge four bedroom 4-level-split in Edmonton to a small three bedroom bungalow in N.Z. Interestingly enough though the market value of the home in N.Z. was probably a fair amount more than the one in Edmonton. My [...] Read more »
There are times in our walk of faith where you simply need to know what God has said to you and be obedient to his revealed voice. Often it is as simplistic as doing what Jesus – and the ones he sent – taught those who follow after him to do. If my life doesn’t line up with what the Bible says is true, I need to change my life. I can’t ignore scripture or pretend it doesn’t apply to [...] Read more »
It wasn’t that we woke up one day and decided to move to the other side of the world. Before we were married God told us independently that we would be outside Canada. We didn’t know the where, when, why, or how but knew God would reveal it in time and we were to simply do the best with what we had while we had it. When we were considering me becoming the Senior Pastor of RCF, I asked God [...] Read more »
Trevor’s back pain had gotten so bad that he was prescribed strong medication in the hopes of alleviating the discomfort. Still, one evening I had to rush him off to emergency. The pain was so bad that he was just about passing out. We waited about 2 hours just so that a nurse could give him a morphine shot. The doctor finally came by and basically said the same as others before her; surgery will probably help. But considering the [...] Read more »
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