by Merv Budd | Mar 31, 2016 | Uncategorized
Becoming Predictable As I was driving this morning, I watched the cars. We all stayed in our lanes, signaled turns, stopped together, moved together. It occurred to me that it all seemed so mundane, predictable, mandated. I wondered how it was that I became controlled...
by Merv Budd | Mar 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
I recently picked up Lee Beach’s book, The Church in Exile: Loving in Hope After Christendom, and found my imagination grabbed by an observation he made regarding the call to holiness for God’s people. He said this: Within the textual response to exile there...
by Cam Roxburgh | Jan 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
The Lake District in England is a “thin place” for me. The likes of Wordsworth and Coleridge and Southey were all inspired by the beauty and serenity of the place. I hear God speak every time I go. On one particular occasion as I was walking up a hill (the British...
by Merv Budd | Jan 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
I was at my bowling league the other night, bowling against one of the new teams that had joined the league this season. I noticed that one of the ladies on the other team brought her teenage daughter. So, between games, wanting to make the daughter feel comfortable...