This past weekend Linda and I traveled to Barrie Ontario so I could speak at Harvest Bible Chapel. We had a wonderful time. At least four of their pastors studied at Heritage and they welcomed us warmly. I spoke from…
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A Heart for the World
This past week, Heritage held its annual Missions Conference. It’s easily one of the highlights of the entire year! The conference was led by Brea Gaudaur, an MK (missionary kid) from Kenya, and her team of Heritage students. Students led…
Sailing Through 2016
As we set sail into a New Year, we all hope for smooth sailing. But most of us have lived long enough to know storms will be coming our way. Balmy days and calm waters will, at times, turn into…
Grateful
I once heard about a church custodian who always answered the question, “How are you?” in the same way. “Grateful,” he’d say. “I’m grateful.” At a conference Linda and I attended recently, we were challenged to intentionally live out the…
Merry Christmas from the Reeds
This Christmas season feels more Californian than Canadian (12C/52F). It’s wet but not white. We are hoping to have our three kids (and new daughter-in-law Jenny) with us for Christmas. Michael’s flight from NYC was cancelled today due to fog;…
The “Boring Part” of the Christmas Story
Here's a post I recently wrote for the Heritage Seminary Faculty Blog: The account of Christ’s birth makes for fascinating reading. Well, most of it does. But there is one part of the story that doesn’t normally hold our attention: the…
December Finale
It’s finals week at Heritage, the grand finale of the fall semester. Students are pushing hard to finish well. Today I saw one student in the cafeteria reviewing his Hebrew vocabulary cards as he ate lunch; the Hebrew exam was at 1:00 pm and…
Remembering Jay
I met Jay Keddy several years ago when his son, Allastair, graduated from Heritage college. Although Jay and I only talked briefly in person, he regularly emailed me over the past few years. Jay served as a deacon in the…
King David Comes to Canada (Part 3)
How can we effectively preach and teach narrative passages in the Bible? That's the subject of this short series of posts. In the previous two posts, I focused on 1) discovering the main message of the passage and 2) using…
King David Comes to Canada (Part 2)
In the previous post, I presented the first part of an article I wrote related to preaching and teaching narrative passages. Having focused on how to discover the main message of the passage, we now consider how to apply the main…
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