She Loves

Dear Friends,

This year’s Women’s Ministries Theme – She Loves – certainly captured our imagination. We learned about and internalized the love of Jesus, the One and Only. We sought God for ways to give that love away:
• The weekly Prayer groups gave love through intercession. 
• The Swap loved through sharing what we have.
• The Home Tours gave love through the Abbotsford Food Bank.
• The Christmas Party gave love through Best for Babies.
• The Beth Moore Simulcast gave love to women in our community and in Guatemala.

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Another Couple of Restaurants…

A few months ago, I posted some recommendations for lunch here in Abbotsford. Some disagreed with my choices, but we all know that those people didn’t know what they were talking about. Only I have the truth when it comes to good restaurants in this town. The sooner you all realize that, the better off we will all be.

In light of the sheer magnitude of my rightness when it comes to these sorts of things, let me add a couple of other restaurants to the list. If you try these out, you will be happy. If you don’t, you will live a substandard existence for the foreseeable future.

Here they are (drum roll, please)…

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What generation are you living for?

In Coleman’s’ book, The Master Plan of Evangelism, he asks the question: “What generation are you living for?”  If you are like me, it will cause you to pause and think.  Where is your focus … really?  What are your priorities … who/what do you care about? The here, now, me and mine … or do you desire to look beyond yourself in order to give of yourself to others. I believe that the later is the desire of the majority of us. So, do we understand the biblical implications and responsibilities of reaching beyond ourselves to the ones who come after us? In an article written by Mark Steiner, he states that “In this generation as never before, cultural gravity relentlessly pulls Christian children down – and they are drowning. 

Statistics warn us that eight of every ten Christian kids are drinking in the world’s value system.”  Can we honestly say that we are concerned about the generation that is currently flooding the hallways and classrooms of our own church?  Namely, kids?  Noisy, messy, bouncy, happy and sometimes grumpy kids!  Scripture confirms that kids are valuable, so valuable in fact that Jesus uses children to illustrate the way each of us need to come to Him. “Unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” And in another place Jesus adds, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them.  For to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”  God has placed kids here to carry on His plan, long after we are gone. Children believe easily but God does not want us to be unaware of the importance He places on loving, caring and training of these children.  It needs to be intentional; kids must be taught to obey, to respect God and others, to praise God and to serve. 

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6 Reasons Abbotsford is Cool

I have noticed a lot of negative talk about our fair city in the papers and on the news lately.

We have a rising gang problem, a lot of grow-ops, a new sex trade, a $2 million video board for our new really expensive arena, and a park (Albert Dyck) built around a manmade lake with lots of goose droppings and beer cans (OK, nobody is writing about that last one, but I still have yet to see the merit in that particular park just yet). So, I thought I would try to counterbalance all the negative with some positive.

Here are six reasons why Abbotsford is cool…

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God is Big Enough to Ask

I spent this morning meeting with some of the most godly men I have been around in a long time. They are all leaders of different ministries in British Columbia whom God has burdened in some way or another with the plight of unreached people in our cities.

One of the guys told us about a pastor in the Middle East who caught a vision for his city and began praying about ways he might reach people there with the Gospel. He has spent the last number of years leading a church that built its “worship centre” into the walls of a cave. It seats nearly 12,000 people in an area that is almost entirely Muslim.

When my friend met this pastor, the pastor grabbed his hand firmly, looked straight into his eyes, and with deep conviction said, “Brother – Agree with me as we ask God for the transformation of my city!” My friend really had no choice, nor did he want one. “Of course I agree with you,” he said.

For some reason, the picture of a Middle Eastern pastor introducing himself to another minister with his soul-stirring vision for his city has convicted me today. Here is this guy living in one of the most populous cities of the world where many are openly hostile to the claims of Christianity.

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