Nathan

Grandson Nathan is one of the chief lights and delights of my life.

Nunnery Ruins, Iona, Scotland

Things both new and old are worth pursuing.

Provider and Radiance

Things are not always as they appear to be.

Colonies of Heaven

I'm almost finished reading "Emerging Churches" by Eddie Gibbs and Ryan K. Bolger. I recommend it for any who want to be conversant with emerging churches. It is disturbing (to a 58 year old) and yet instructive, prophetic and, I find, encouraging. I want to reflect more upon what I have found within its pages.

Living a life with Jesus, and living that life 'on the Way' with others in a messy, profoundly altered world is my passion and goal, though I confess I'm too easily distracted and diverted by my own too self-centred motives, passions and fears.

Emergents are on to something. I want to learn from them. They are struggling to receive, enter into and live the gift of God's Presence and Reign (the Kingdom).

With many of them, I too am profoundly upset with what purports to be the answers we too quickly 'share' - in our still-modern, contemporary attempts to live out the Good News and in that life Jesus called 'abundant' - when our world has moved beyond being simply 'modern.'

I want to journey with those who, in Len Sweet's words, want to move away from or beyond mere 'answers' to the 'mysteries' - into the Mystery.

Burlington Bay

My Canon Power Shot is only 3.3 megapixels but it’s been great for all I need at present.
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Last week I spent several hours at LaSalle Park Marina in Burlington (overlooking Burlington Bay towards Hamilton harbour). Boats bob at their moorings near the northern shoreline at what used to be Oaklands Park. Many 'revival preachers' like Gypsy Smith ministered there in the early part of the last century. Now it is comprised of gorgeous luxury homes.

Near the distant shore my mother was baptized in the 1930's, upon her profession of faith in Jesus, along with a number of others from the (then) Freeman Gospel Tabernacle which later became Brant Bible Church. It joined recently with Park Bible Church to form the ‘Compass Point’ congregation.

The old cabins from Oaklands were taken by my grandfather and uncles, by truck, to Fair Havens Bible Conference on the Trent canal system near Beaverton, where they were put to good use for a number of years.