I have so much and every new trip to a less developed country reminds me of all I have and probably don’t need. I am in an airport in Davao, Philippines waiting for my flight home. I spoke in a church Sunday morning that filled my heart with joy! They […]
CliffsNotes – October 31, 2017 Read More
When I first met Shaina, a deep-thinking twenty-something, she had been absent from a traditional church for seven years—but she would not, actually call herself a ‘Done.’ “I’m a long-term investor—this is more of a purposeful hiatus,” she told me. Shaina grew up in a Free Methodist church and was
Being Ambassadors Outside the Church Walls: Conversation with a Millenial ‘Done’ Read More
So a couple of weeks ago, Bishop Cliff shared an interview he conducted with Lawson Murray of Scripture Union Canada. The point of the interview was to encourage us towards greater Scripture engagement. If you missed those Cliff’s Notes, the links are here: https://fmcic.ca/cliffsnotes-october-3-2017/ https://fmcic.ca/cliffsnotes-october-10-2017/ By the way, if you
How Engaged Are We With Scripture? Read More
just spent two days with the FMCIC Study Commission on Doctrine (SCOD). These are the people in our denomination who casually use words like “nihil obstat” about a particular book, or “irenic” about discussion (I had to look these up too!). They think deeply and listen attentively to each other.
CliffsNotes – October 24, 2017 Read More
In his article ‘Is a Successful Small Church an Oxymoron?’, Karl Vater, pastor at Cornerstone Christian Fellowship in Fountain Valley, California writes: “We’ve convinced ourselves that successful equals big. So small must equal failure. Therefore, anytime you have “small” and “successful” in the same phrase – voila! Instant oxymoron. But
Is A Successful Small Church An Oxymoron? Read More
We (the FMCIC – which is you, me, all of us together!) sent one of our Winnipeg pastors to the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation event in Winnipeg. One of the important benefits of being a part of a movement is we can be mobilized across Canada and
CliffsNotes – October 17, 2017 Read More
“I don’t know if you know: Prince Albert is to the North of Canada–that the temperature was 22 degrees at the end of September was a God thing!” transition pastor Dyan Mouland says with a chuckle. Months before, something had been stirring in the congregation of Cornerstone FM. There are
Getting ‘Un-invisible’: Cornerstone FM in Prince Albert, SK Read More
It’s easy to get so busy doing ministry that you don’t take the time to evaluate your ministry. But evaluation is how you get better. It’s like your annual physical. No one wants to get a check-up, blood work, and maybe a test or two, but that’s how you learn
8 Good Questions to Evaluate Your Church Read More
Karlene and I pray that you had a meaningful Thanksgiving weekend and we pray that it is with gratitude that you are moving into this week! “Today, Father, I choose to remember the new life that You have given me. Jesus, I remember that I am forgiven. I remember that
CliffsNotes – October 10, 2017 Read More
Does all our online chatter about being missional keep us from being missional? That’s the question that Dan Kimball explores in the article, the ease of simply reading blogs about being missional in the comfort of our homes versus actually going out into our community to be missional. Click here
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