Are You Dealing with ‘Horrible Idleness’?

During our morning Zoom prayer time, we read a devotional that included an illustration about the amazing Charles Spurgeon.  Spurgeon was an English preacher in the 19th century who drew large crowds during his frequent sermons, wrote books on prayers and Bible...

Battling What Brings Us Down

We have been having a big problem in our house this year. Actually, I should say we are having a lot of problems in our house.  I correct my words because our “big problem” is made up of hundreds of small problems.  Our problem is ants, lots and lots of ants!! Often...

Are You Looking for Service?

I quietly wanted to be Dick Tracy when I was growing up.  Not only because of his crime fighting accomplishments, or even because of the snappy yellow hat and rain slicker coat he wore over his nicely tailored suit (although that was a mighty good look), but because...

Effective and Affective Ministry

Green Timbers Covenant Church – this multi-cultural, multi-generational Christ centred community – has a mission and it is our responsibility as a church to live into that mission in its most full sense! We are called and committed to “cultivating...

Stop Doing What You Hate

This morning I was scrolling through Twitter on my phone as I was lying in bed wishing that I were still sleeping. My mind was telling me that it was too early to get up, but apparently that isn’t what my body was thinking. I was scrolling past the baseball articles,...