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That is not unexpected; Jesus knew we would have difficulty.

Snowshoes are masters of camouflage, with brown/grey colouring most of the year and white in the winter. When they sit still, they can be challenging to spot. This one wanted to up its game and hide in the feeder/fountain.

The church is so much more than a “hospital.” It is a critical care ward for the newly resurrected and reborn. It is a rehabilitation facility for those struggling with all the world’s temptations. The church is a school to teach newborns how to live lives in Christ. It is a citizenship class preparing us for our new citizenship in the Kingdom of God

We will see the Lord in His unfettered glory. I cannot imagine how beautiful He will be. We will see one another glorified through eyes and minds no longer tainted by sin—what a marvellous vision.

Life in a broken world comes with woundedness and pain. We can have physical, emotional, spiritual and relational distress, often more than one at once.

A pair of themes in the Scriptures run parallel to one another. Efforts to reconcile those parallel themes inevitably damage or distort one or the other. I am speaking of divine sovereignty and individual responsibility. Both are taught clearly in the Bible and sometimes seem to be a paradox

modified it into a very functional sleigh that the dogs could pull, and I could stand on and ride. It was quite an ingenious design and had the advantage of being collapsable for storage and transport.

Whether you call them flocks, gaggles or skeins, one thing you seldom see is a solo goose. Geese were designed to be in community, sometimes vast communities, but communities nonetheless.
n that, geese and Christians have a lot in common. Christians are not designed to live solo lives.

imes, but they are ongoing. As we are changed and impact our world, the world is changed, and the kingdom grows