In my message to our LFC community this morning I spoke to the point that we need to be intentional in our prayer this year. It is through prayer that we will discern and follow God's plan for us as a community. We need to pray for individual and corporate HEALING, PROTECTION...
I am excited to enter into the new year with my extended family at LFC. I know that God has much to teach us, much to show us and much to do through us this year. It is going to be a fun year of blessings.
“a group of people with a common characteristic or interest living together within a larger society.” I find the above definition to be a great one for community. But I find it much harder to communicate the concept of true and authentic Biblical Missional Community...
I am in the Winnipeg Airport waiting to fly home after 3 amazing days at the Church Planting Congress hosted by Church Planting Canada. It has been an amazing time of challenges and growth. It has also been a great time of connecting with old friends and making new...
I have, for the last litte while, been wrestling with a frustrating thought concerning the Church. The thought has arisen around a number of requests over the last few years for me to "make friends" for the people in our community. It stems around the idea that if the...
10 Simple Ways To Be Missional …without adding anything to your schedule by Tim Chester 1. Eat with other people We all eat 3 meals a day. That’s 21 opportunities for church and mission each week without adding anything new to your schedule. And meals are a powerful...
It was a great pleasure to spend an evening eating food at a resteraunt in Kansas City and hear a number of the great minds and voices of the Missional/Incarnational conversation share their thoughts I was invited by virtue of who I know, not what I know. These voices...
Eugene Peterson defines discipleship as "a long obedience in the same direction.". I have always loved that simple word-picture definition. It has long been my personal mission to be about the work of discipleship. I may not talk at this often, and some would say that...
The above title could get me in a lot of trouble with a lot of people. Of course I believe in studying the Word of God and understand that it is important. It is important to study the Word, but it seems as, if not more important to put the Word into action. This...
