The Rhythms of Grace

There is a powerful song performed by Kim Walker called "How He Loves Us". I heard it for the first time around five years ago...

Recently the youth group I help lead got to hear a guest speaker talking about his work as an aviator missionary in Mongolia. It was ver...

Ten years ago if I were to connect on any sort of personal level with someone famous, it would require getting backstages passes to a ...

Up until a few weeks ago, if someone had asked me what my earliest memory is, I have a handful of memories from around age five that imm...

A song I heard recently described God as the Everlasting Day. This struck a chord very deep within me. No night, ever again. Just g...

My  baby girl was just recently in a stage where when she wanted to move forwards, she actually ended up moving backwards. (She has...

Happy Belated New Year to each one of you! We were in Alberta visiting family the two weeks after Christmas, so even though we are 17 da...

I often use the word "struggle" to describe the various things I face each day that I find difficult. If I ate one (or five) t...

This past week at my youth group I had the privilege of teaching the lesson for the night. (Special hello to any River Warriors yout...

This post has been a beast for me to get out. I started it at least a month ago. It has been hard to write because it is still in process in...

So often we, as broken people, put the burden of fixing ourselves on ourselves. We try, harder and harder. We make promises to ourselves...

I've felt it when I'm running on the elliptical in the morning. When just the right song starts to play in my headphones, with j...

A few weeks ago on two separate occasions I heard some very impacting words that have continued my thinking of this theme of surrender. ...

If you have ever heard the same story told by two different people, you know that different perspectives can completely change the o...

Everyday we all operate out of internal constructs that tell us how life works and how we should live.  We have been taught through...

Growing up as a kid in the church, there are certain verses from the Bible that you learn, memorize and basically have engrained in ...

Right now I'm reading in Proverbs, and I'm reading it in the Message paraphrase.  This morning this verse struck me. Proverbs 1...

One week ago along with my youth group, I was at All Ontario Youth Convention and had the opportunity to  hear Shane Claiborne speak.  O...

How do we deal with those moments where suddenly (or not so suddenly) God feels far away?   Last night as I fell asleep my prayer to Go...

I love baby movement!  I have been feeling my baby move for about 13 weeks and I have not gotten over it yet.  When the baby moves, it i...