The island of New Providence is just a shade under 80 square miles, and while it is one of the smaller islands in the Bahamas it is the largest (by far) in terms of population. I have only lived here for two and a half months, but with each passing week I am gaining a [...]
The islands of New Providence and Paradise Island have provided me with a very unique experience thus far. There is an opulence here that surpasses anything I ever witnessed in Toronto. But there is also widespread poverty here that is startling and heart-wrenching. And, incredibly, these two contexts exist almost side by side. Just last [...]
It has barely been a month since being inducted into my new charge and I am already thinking about “church growth”. For me, experiencing growth within a congregation is not something that happens because I “perform” well, or because I successfully implemented some creative “outreach” initiatives. No, my expectation for congregational growth comes largely from two [...]
If you regularly attend a local church, which you love and serve at, this blog post is not for you. If, however, you attend a church which frustrates and disappoints you, please read on. Or, perhaps you’ve given up on church altogether. Maybe you grew up in the church, but as soon as you were [...]
I was at a Pastors Conference in Chicago in the late 1990s when a question was put to Howard Hendricks, “Is it acceptable for a preacher to deliver the same message more than once?” (presumably in different contexts). Without hesitation, Hendricks replied with an emphatic tone, “If it’s not worth preaching more than once, it’s [...]
