Experience the journey of a doubter turned church-planter from Calgary, Alberta, whose near-death encounter leads him to embrace his mission.

Here are four more principles I learned as I embarked on this faith adventure. Read on to discover the important of ownership, fellowship, blamelessness, and prayer in the pursuit of not only starting and sustaining a Bible study, but succeeding in that pursuit!

Starting a Bible study is one thing, actually doing it and sustaining it is another. In this installment, learn about how persistence and the practical nuts-and-bolts work together to actually keep a group going and functioning effectively.

During seminary I started a good sized men’s bible study. At the peak, the group had nineteen attendees meeting in a large restaurant in the middle of town. It was tremendously exciting to see it grow! I have been reflecting on what I learned in these last two years and felt that it would be helpful to share my experiences.

Philippians 2:5-7 says “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men” I don’t know about you, but

One of the most powerful stories in the New Testament is the account of Jesus healing the man with palsy. This account is found in Luke 5. In the text, we find Jesus teaching in a house presumably near the sea of Galilee. Fame of his ability has filled the religious leaders with curiosity and jealousy. From all over the

Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. 2 Timothy 2:3-4  In the year 1776 Lt, General John Burgoyne or “Gentleman Johnny” as he was called was one of the main generals

Christmas tradition can cause us to breeze over the classic passages outlining the Christmas story. However a meditative look at these passages can give you a fresh, applicable perspective. Here are four lessons from the life of Mary to encourage you in your walk of faith.

Have you ever been fearful? As a culture, especially today, so many are bound by fear. There are many things to be concerned about. Inflation, riots, communists, not to mention the virus. Fear is why many Americans have been so willing to do anything and everything the doctors and politicians have been telling them to do without question. We live in a fear-obsessed age today and that fear is killing us.

It was an eyesore. The roof had begun to rot and in the summer weeds grew inside. The white paint that still clung to the wood was flaking off. It was time for the shed to go. My brother and I spent the day, hammer and saw in hand, tearing it down. By late afternoon a sizeable pile of wood

We were several thousand feet above the Canadian North. Below us, rugged and majestic, trees, rocks and lakes stretched for miles. A minute before I had been able to see it all. Now, I was surrounded by white fog on every side. To make things worse, the small plane now pitched and tossed in the air. What started as a

Charles Templeton was a very famous evangelist in the 1940s. It is said that during his evangelistic campaigns he would lead 150 people to Christ a day. It was truly amazing! Those that knew him believed that God had raised him up to turn America back to God. Then something tragic happened. Charles began to doubt God’s word. Soon he

It was not what I was expecting at all. I had in my mind (thanks to flannel-graph and cartoons) a dry valley, covered in rocks and sand, with small stream running through like an oasis. I envisioned two sandy hills on either side, towering into the air. But It wasn’t like that at all. It was a peaceful green plain,

Pressure is something that we all feel. We have deadlines in ministry and school. We have tasks that we need to accomplish at work. Although pressure is needful in moderation, our response to life pressures is often to become stressed out. We become worried, grieving the Holy Spirit.

Last summer I traveled as a team member on the Cola Clash. Early in the summer, we stopped in Winchester, Ohio. The church was in the middle of town surrounded by gravel and asphalt. This meant that we could not do the evangelistic rallies on location as normal. Instead, the church rented a small building beside the large convention center