by Cam Roxburgh | Nov 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
I love being a local church pastor… most days. God has given me front row seats to watch some amazing stories unfold in the lives of His people. It does not get much better. But I don’t always feel this way as a number of things block my view: 1. Myself I am my own...
by Cam Roxburgh | Oct 27, 2016 | Uncategorized
Defining the missional church as having “a renewed theological vision” means that we pay attention to assessing church health in some specific ways. Church health must be seen through the lens of scripture that reflects the nature and action of God. Scripture uses...
by Cam Roxburgh | Oct 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
“Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe When I planted a church almost twenty-five years...
by Merv Budd | Oct 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
A few years back, I once more went on Leviathan, the longest, fastest, and steepest roller coaster at Canada’s wonderland. My son and I sat in the very front seat. While after years of riding roller coaster I am quite comfortable with them, I still feel the racing of...
by Cam Roxburgh | Sep 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
In my last post, I asked the question, might it be true that we as God’s people today, have drifted and also need “a renewed theological vision of the church on mission?” Perhaps our understanding of God is too narrow. Our box for Him too small. Lesslie Newbigin’s...
by Cam Roxburgh | Sep 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
O to grace how great a debtor daily I’m constrained to be! Let thy goodness, like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to thee. Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, prone to leave the God I love; here’s my heart, O take and seal it, seal it for thy courts...
