Best of Times or Worst of Times
“Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.” – Art Buchwald Calgary’s unemployment rate reached 7.9% in February, the highest it has been in 20 years. For many workers in Calgary, these are the worst of times. Many have moved to other cities where the unemployment…
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Walking in the Light
This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we…
Continue readingI Just Want To Know
Regardless of where you are in your spiritual journey, I pray that you might be always drawing closer to God. As I went for a run this morning a prayer written by Steve Taylor came to mind and I prayed as I ran. In all of the activity of life: teaching, mentoring, preaching, planning, and…
Continue readingFollow-Up to People Who Care
The other half of finding people who will walk with you is finding someone whom you will care about and walk alongside. If you wish to be mentored, coached, or directed you will do well to fulfill this function in someone else’s life. Sonia Sotomayor, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United…
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James Houston speaks of “mentoring,” Bob Logan speaks of “coaching,” and others speak of “spiritual direction.” Each of these terms describe a specific methodology; but what they have in common is the concept of one person walking alongside another. In a world that is becoming more and more individual, where we define our uniqueness by…
Continue readingSpiritual Exercise
Spiritual exercise for today. Read 1 Corinthians 9:11, 2 Corinthians 11:21-30, and Philippians 2:5-11 (they are quoted here in the New Living Translation) and then consider these questions. “To what am I entitled?” “In what can I boast?” “What privileges am I willing to give up?” 1 Corinthians 9:11 Since we have planted spiritual seed…
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