Continuing to Grow

We are called to maturity of faith. We are called to align our lives with Christ more and more each day. This is a relational alignment, a relational closeness that results in shared beliefs and patterns of living. It is walking together through our lives, enjoying and celebrating the new life we share in Christ.

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215

The main headline everywhere we turn is of the mass grave found at a former residential school in Kamloops. 215 children buried without recognition. All these families given no opportunity to grieve or even know what happened to their loved ones.

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Living the Faith Journey

When I stop and look for God, it is often striking how He has been speaking to me through a variety of people and circumstances but all with a related message. Today I hope to give you a glimpse into my faith journey as of late.

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What Is Being Sown In Our Lives?

I grew up on the farm, so I enjoy following the seasons of agriculture. Some of my friends have been seeding these last weeks, putting in their crop to raise feed for their animals. There is a miracle within this process of seeding – a seed dies in order to sprout, a seed is buried in the dark in order to reproduce many times over.

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Getting Below the Surface

Spiritually speaking, we often leave “stumps” poking up in our lives. We get rid of the ugliest parts of our lives but allow the root / the stump of our sin and temptation to remain. Sometimes we just work to ignore it; other times we try to cover it up - but we refuse to do the work of truly removing the problem. We trip over it, we walk around it, but we let it remain.

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How Am I Doing?

Moses was taking the entire load of leadership upon himself, failing to equip and empower others to help with the leadership responsibilities. Jethro gives him important guidance towards a better way - better for himself and for Israel as a whole.

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