This past Sunday Stefan Duerksen gave a great message on knowing your identity. He also designed daily exercises that will help you to take the head knowledge you learned on the weekend and start getting it into your heart! Obviously these are wonderful exercises for … Read More
Knowing your identity
for families!
March 21
This past Sunday Stefan Duerksen gave a great message on knowing your identity. He also designed daily exercises that will help you to take the head knowledge you learned on the weekend and start getting it into your heart! Obviously these are wonderful exercises for … Read More
Knowing your identity
for families!
March 20
This past Sunday Stefan Duerksen gave a great message on knowing your identity. He also designed daily exercises that will help you to take the head knowledge you learned on the weekend and start getting it into your heart! Obviously these are wonderful exercises for … Read More
Knowing your identity
for families!
March 19
This past Sunday Stefan Duerksen gave a great message on knowing your identity. He also designed daily exercises that will help you to take the head knowledge you learned on the weekend and start getting it into your heart! Obviously these are wonderful exercises for … Read More
Knowing your identity
for families!
March 18
This past Sunday Stefan Duerksen gave a great message on knowing your identity. He also designed daily exercises that will help you to take the head knowledge you learned on the weekend and start getting it into your heart! Obviously these are wonderful exercises for … Read More
Violence in the Bible
One of the Church Renewal Practices is “Learn about God and know God” and clearly the most important way to do this is to read the Bible. But does that mean all of the Bible? Should we focus on just the stories about Jesus (and … Read More
Knowing Your Identity
for Families
March 17
On Sunday Stefan Duerksen gave a great message on knowing your identity. He also designed daily exercises that will help you to take the head knowledge you learned on the weekend and start getting it into your heart! Obviously these are wonderful exercises for anyone … Read More
Knowing your identityfor FAMILIES!
March 16
On Sunday Stefan Duerksen gave a great message on knowing your identity. He also designed daily exercises that will help you to take the head knowledge you learned on the weekend and start getting it into your heart! Obviously these are wonderful exercises for anyone … Read More
Parents who persevere
Yes, yes, we all know that parenting is hard. Let’s just move on from the clichés and start talking about solutions. This year, more than any other, I have had to persevere as a dad. It’s like those wars and rumours of wars that I … Read More
Foster kids need friends
I started working at Southland in 2006 and I’ll never forget as the realization dawned on me that somewhere around 10-15% of our youth group were foster or adopted children. It was very exciting for me to be in a church that valued taking care … Read More
A Media Challenge (Part 2)!
Yesterday morning I was sitting in church and felt convicted that I needed to become more creative with my children again. I had found myself resorting to the easy and obvious things to do as a family. We have set the parameter in our home … Read More
What I look for in a legacy
Several years ago I had the formidable experience of preaching at the chapel of a senior’s residence in Winnipeg. I say formidable because this particular complex seemed to be filled entirely with former Mennonite Brethren pastors. Now put me in front of a group of … Read More
Why every parent should attend Confident Christianity
There are those moments, and this is one of them, that you ask yourself, “Should I really promote myself or not?” I have come to the conclusion that suggesting that all parents attend Confident Christianity is not really promoting myself, but rather promoting Truth, AND … Read More
Southland Worship – Together We Run
At Southland we have learned and experienced the tremendous value and importance of the Body of Christ. Individually we are only one part of the Body, but when each part take ownership for their role in unity with the other parts and under the headship of Jesus, the church … Read More
Conquering a lack of confidence in prayer
The very first Prayer Summit that I attended, I sat with Carla Fontaine, one of Grace Fast’s main leaders on her Prayer Team. Of course I hoped to receive some deep insight for her from the Lord that night as we listened in prayer. As … Read More
Trusting God with our Kids
My heart was racing, my chest pounding, I couldn’t breathe. For a moment it felt like time had stopped. “Get up, please get up,” I prayed, as I saw my son lying lifeless on the floor of the gymnasium. “Jesus, please help him get up!” … Read More
We are all the least of these
Tara and I have six kids. To explain that I need to use categories that I really hate; terms like adopted, foster, biological as if that makes a difference, which it doesn’t, all our kids are simply our kids. God has clearly called us, the … Read More
Teaching listening prayer to children (part 1 of many…)
“How do I teach listening prayer to my child?” This is a question that I have heard over and over again in the past few years, most often from parents of elementary school kids. It can be very challenging to know how to answer because … Read More
The Top Ten Things YOUR Parents Did Right!
Today I preached a message about the top ten things my parents did right when I was growing up (with supporting roles from my grandparents). Here they are again! My parents let me destroy my room (it was an invitation to be me!) My parents … Read More