Not all work is glamorous. It's work after all. I've hoed beet fields - leaving blisters on my hands, picked at the conveyer belt on our...

It's easy to spend time with people we enjoy. I'm an introvert and though I find myself fading away after a long time in the presence of...

Shame is like a weed. It begins with a thought. Our past experiences give it shape and nourishment while it invades our thoughts,...

I don't always say the right thing. I wish I did... but I don't. You're getting ready for bed, the events of the day flow through your...

The other day, I was with a woman who was struggling with serious health issues. She was most anxious about whether she'd improve enough...

Some lessons are best learned through story. In our spiritual growth, we often tend to seek out direct instruction, a list of dos or...

What has your discipleship journey looked like? Did someone take you under their wing, meet regularly for coffee, or study the Bible with...

Sitting on the plush area rug, my daughter opens her gift - her great-grandparents watch with a curious eye. She pulls out a new...

Equal and distinct. These are two important words as we talk about people and relationships. Equality reminds us of our sameness and...

It's okay to be ordinary. Do you believe that to be true? Paddling out on the lake makes me feel really small. One stroke at a time,...

"The church faces her biggest challenge not when new errors start to win but when old truths no longer wow." Now, there's a first line to...

In ministry it's easy to get caught up in leadership and we forget is that to lead is first to follow. Whether in your workplace or local...

"The heart cannot love what the mind does not know" Jen Wilkin This is one among my favourite quotes, reminding me of the immense value...

In 2019, a Lifeway Research study indicated 32% of regular church attenders read their Bible everyday. We hear it taught during our...

Our journey there and back again, from the dense bush of East Africa to the prairies of Canada, we frequently wrestled with the tension...

If your marriage was a shape, what shape would it be? Maybe you're in the stage of littles, or in the midst of a transition, and your...

Have you ever felt ashamed? If you have, how would you describe it? Perhaps it felt like humiliation after an embarrassing situation or...

For those of you who know me, or have followed the blog for a while, you know that after my people, books are next in line among my...

Caught up in the everyday hustle and bustle, we don't even know we feel unsatisfied. We just keep on chugging, ticking off the next...

"In our fallen state we think we know best, that we can do better. And so we continuously set out to make our best lives happen right...