One Neighbourhood Blog

I am not sure why I am like this but I resist times of solitude with God. Don’t get me wrong, like all good Christian leaders I can preach a good sermon about the need to withdraw and spend time in solitude and prayer. It… Read More »

Each of us will encounter difficult seasons in our lives. If we allow them, they can refine us and help us to push on, trust more and allow our roots to go deeper into Christ. “Hardship, in whatever form it takes, is … an opportunity… Read More »

In May 2012, I journeyed to Israel & Egypt for two weeks on a study tour with ADC. I was deeply impacted by the deserts I saw and journeyed through, especially the Judean Wilderness and the Sinai Desert. The vastness and barrenness spoke to my… Read More »

When I was a seminary student I heard of struggles that some of my friends (who had graduated a year or so ahead of me) were already experiencing as they served as associate pastors. At that time, it seemed to me that their biggest challenge… Read More »

“Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought with a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.” (1 Cor. 6:19-20 NIV) Maintaining… Read More »

The beautiful city of Prague in the Czech Republic is full of many wonderful old treasures. Last week I had the privilege of walking some of its streets with a group of students from ADC. A little off the main tourist track, I took them… Read More »

I’m sitting in the Montreal airport, on my way home after three weeks on the road. I’ve been in Cuba for two and a half weeks with the CBM 2013 Praxis team (a scholarship program for Canadian Baptist seminary students) and then at an interfaith… Read More »

I firmly believe that Baptists in Atlantic Canada should be praying about how to start new congregations and birth fresh expressions of church in our region. There is a need for renewal in many of our struggling congregations and I wonder if some shouldn’t be… Read More »

65 new churches. Amalgamation. Fresh Expressions. Satellites. Church Plants. When I first saw this in the new senior staff proposal I thought what a bold, exciting challenge for us as a people of God to recapture our church planting DNA. That was long before I… Read More »

When I was in High school my vice-principal was an AUBA Baptist minister, Dr. Willard Clayton. He gave me a verse one day that has continued to inhabit my soul: “being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry… Read More »