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Courageous Movie Review

If you are the father of a daughter, see this movie. If you are the wife of a husband you want to know better, see this movie. If you are a parent who has lost a child, see this movie. If you are a mother to a child who’s father is checked out or absent, [...]

Relief vs. Restoration – What are you needing in your summer vacation?

I’m in the middle of the summer months, between the end of one season of mission and the start of another.  Yet it feels like the mission doesn’t just “end”.  The need doesn’t just “go away” for a few weeks so I can catch up on my sleep.  The battle doesn’t “take a break”.  ”Whoa! [...]

Love and War Video

Grade 10 Boys “Getting High” – Leduc #1 Oil Rig

On May 12, 2010 we took a handful of boys from Saint Albert Catholic High School and “got high” with them – 101 feet worth of high. In an effort to build trust, instill confidence and show these boys that they’re valuable young men, we worked with them for eight plus weeks with different experiences [...]

Quest for the Heart Series – Forged and Romanced

God’s after two things in us, during our time here.  He’s after our hearts and after our healing.  God desires our hearts to come alive with our deepest desires and to bring those to bear on the world.  And he desperately wants to see us restored, our hurts healed.  The two go hand in hand.  [...]

Finding Your Purpose

Finish this sentence…”The perfect church….”

Leave a comment below and finish this sentence. “The perfect church….”

What Does Your Heart Need This Year?

What will 2010 be for you? Hello friends!  It seems so passe to just say “Happy New Year” to hearts close to us such as yours.  And “happy” doesn’t quite cover it.  And “wishing” doesn’t work for me either.  It’s more like “An Alive and Awake New Year” to you.  Or “Hopeful Discovering to You [...]

Living the Advent-ure

Advent. The dawn of something big. Arrival. The coming. Preparation. I have come to love the season of Advent. And having our own kids, it’s become even cooler. Every night at the dinner table during Advent we sing a ridiculously silly song to the tune of “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” and I do stress EVERY [...]

Noise

This may be the hardest video you’ll ever sit through.