Santa Clause: Child like faith at Christmas…

Santa Clause Childlike Faith at Christmas One of my favourite movies to watch at Christmas is “The Santa Clause 2”. I love it for a few reasons, the magic and mystery of the fantasy of Santa is one, it’s fun and entertaining and we can watch it as a family. But the biggest reason I like it is because of one scene in particular.   Spoiler alert!   The scene…

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Timberline Ranch

Our second week of camp this summer was at Timberline Ranch, a horse camp in Maple Ridge. Every camp has its own format and structure and Timberline’s specialty/strength was in their drama. They’d go to any extent, particularly when it comes to showing how much they love their homeland! Every other corner had a large flagpole waving the state flag, and it was refreshing to see how patriotic they were….

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Gardom Lake and Committing to Jesus for the “4th” Time

Three weeks ago I spoke to a group of 9-11 year olds at Gardom Lake Bible Camp. Gardom is a camp that I have spoken at multiple times in the past and enjoy the culture there a lot. It was a full camp and I had the opportunity to speak twice a day for the full week that I was there. The topic was “Soar” and when I got there…

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Dating Your Daughter: The Ring

Our daughters need for affirmation from their fathers is incredible. I’ve embraced one tangible way of doing that this that I believe has amazing power and potential to confirm and maintain the foundation of love and care we have for our daughters. Giving her a ring that has clear and laid out intention behind it can be a reminder of your love no matter where they are or where they…

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The Happy T-Shirt Accident – A Perfect Expression of Grace

The other day, Josiah and I were not seeing eye to eye. He was on a complaining and whining rampage. Nothing was good enough in his world and any kind of formal activity made him angry. He wanted to stay home and play video games and nothing was going to convince him otherwise. I was patient and gave him lots of space, but after 2 hours of complaining, banging walls…

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The Honour of Speaking at Camp with my Kids

I was speaking at a spring break camp last week in Maple Ridge. I was sharing on character traits of God and how He applied to the lives of the campers and staff. Leigha and Josiah came with me and at one point I asked them if they would like to be a part of the talks. Both of them said they wanted to be, which surprised me to some…

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Abundant Life and Fearless in Friendship

I was listening to a friend share the other day and he said something that caught my attention. He mentioned that he wasn’t born into a Christian family but his mom had found Jesus when he was in High School. He mentioned that she took her faith seriously but that she never tried to force her faith on him, instead he remembers feeling like she wanted to introduce him to…

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