2 Breakthroughs To Help You Get A Bit Un-Busy
It’s 11 pm and you haven’t had 10 minutes to just… breathe. You were supposed to work 45 hours a week but they expect 65. […]
It’s 11 pm and you haven’t had 10 minutes to just… breathe. You were supposed to work 45 hours a week but they expect 65. […]
This Advent, our congregation celebrated the season leading up to Christmas with a Giving Calendar. Each family in the congregation was given a long banner […]
“Love is the one commodity we can possess that is replenished and increased when it is given away.” (Ace Collins) Which means it’s not like […]
by Bruce Wilcox (Editor’s Note: Many of you will remember that Bruce has been getting ready to serve among us full time as we prepare […]
There are two bits that jump out of this week’s lectionary passage in the Gospel and both are connected to the naming of names. Maybe […]
I have always found as much inspiration and grace in writing prayers for Sunday morning worship as I have found in sermon-writing – often more. […]
I was back at my old church yesterday. It’s like going to “Grandma’s house”…full of memories but not having much impact on your present day […]
The Advent and Christmas seasons are an intense time for clergy. Here in Ontario, December also brought severe winter weather, difficult travel and widespread power […]
A lot of the conversations I’ve had with people lately, it seems, have centred around discernment. For most of those with whom I’ve talked about […]
I bought a sharp pencil yesterday to celebrate the New Year. And also because I’ve also just started a new job. That’s a little mad, […]
Today is the last day of the school holidays and, as such, not a great day for writing around here. But tomorrow there will be […]
Bonnie Tyler sang these words nearly 30 years ago in a song that every generation since then probably knows. The song was given new […]
For over six years now I have led “A different kind of Bible Study” group at my home. The group started at the Church but […]
Happy new year! For many readers of Encouragement From The Word, including myself, the past couple of weeks have been, well, ‘eventful’ is the word that […]
This week we say goodbye to a wonderful lady with a passion for mission. Margaret Knight was a long-time member of Calvin Church in Abbotsford. […]
New year, new you? Or maybe just a new-and-improved-you? Your soul feels like a tape deck and you want to be an iPod. I think […]
This was to have been about Monday morning and madeleines. I was going to write about a quiet morning of baking with the kids. Time […]
It’s the start of a new way of joining us in the Cariboo – follow our blog and get a taste of the ministry of […]
I bought a new suitcase today! And I really don’t intend to travel anywhere but I had given my old one to granddaughter Andrea […]
It’s Christmas Day. A baby cries. It will not be the last time. A mother is tired. It will not be the last time. Hope […]