Yesterday, in a meeting after our worship service, our congregation came face to face with a reality that was initially hard to accept. We don’t have enough money to purchase a new building. We aren’t far away, but we aren’t there yet. There is a lot of support out there for our little body, but [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Outside Ourselves…Outside Myself
Posted in Uncategorized on March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Touching Story
Posted in Uncategorized on March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I recently joined The Peterborough Singers, a community choir, in an effort to get to know people beyond the “walls” of our church. Our conductor, Syd Birrell, and his family have a sad, moving and inspirational story that was recently shared across the country on CTV’s W5. Read the story here. Watch the video here. [...]
An Atheist on Young Earth Creation Arguments
Posted in Uncategorized on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The wordpress.com homepage had this link on it. It is an atheist commenting on some problems with the arguments of young earth creationists. I grew up in a context that taught that only a young earth creationist perspective was compatable with Christianity. I heard a lot of arguments against evolution and in favour of young [...]
Do You Tweet?
Posted in Uncategorized on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I confess…I am on twitter. I am currently following four people. Three of these four have track records of tweeting information that is helpful to me in growing professionally (and personally), although they do tweet other random stuff, too. The other is my wife’s business, which she doesn’t actually know how to use, yet. She [...]
Hey, Waiter! There’s a fly in my…salad!
Posted in Uncategorized on March 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I was on the way home from a church gathering with my family on Sunday night. We had to go into Sobey’s to get some water and my wife was hungry for a salad. She found an oriental chicken salad that had been made in the store. It was exactly what she wanted. She had [...]
Congregational Rule/Christ Rule
Posted in Uncategorized on March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our church body is wrestling with a very big decision right now. As leadership we want to lead forward with confidence. We want to encourage faith and a willingness to step beyond what we can control without God’s help. In contrast to that, as Baptists, we believe in the priesthood of all believers. We believe [...]
