Joanna la Fleur – Leading Well in Difficult Times
Joanna la Fleur is a speaker, podcaster, TV cohost, and digital consultant. With business and theology degrees, she has been helping the local church communicate the best news in the world for over 15 years. You can catch her interviews with leading Christian creatives and communicators on the Word Made Digital…
Sue Wigston – Critical Questions Leaders Should Ask
Sue Wigston, CEO, Givesome and EVP Strategic Growth at Eagle’s Flight. Sue’s 25 year career has focused on helping people achieve their full potential. As former COO at Eagle’s Flight, she led leaders of organizations through complex culture transformations and as CEO of Givesome, she pursues a vision of everyone…
Karmyn Bokma – Jesus Still Leads The Church
Karmyn Bokma is the Lead Pastor at The Meeting House, Oakville. She is passionate about helping people discover, and understand more deeply their identity in Christ, and nothing energizes her more than leading teams of people as they work and serve out of who God has made them to be.…
Just be WITH me – Colleen Blake Miller
“I wish they would stop telling me to pray” Words I’ve heard far too many times as I’ve sat across from individuals who are distraught and feeling exhausted by the weight of the struggles they are battling connected to their mental health. “What makes hearing this so difficult” I say,…
Resources to Help With Grief
Our friends at Canadian Bible Society have provided a number of resources to help us in our grief: Encouraging Verse E-Cards Sympathy eCards Where to look in the Bible: The Bible tells of the experiences of real people, and it is where you can turn to find messages to meet your…
The Cure for a Calloused Heart
How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me? Look on me and answer, Lord my God. Give light to my…
Anne Miranda – Detours
I hate unexpected surprises. I get anxious when things are not planned. I love a plan that runs accordingly. I feel the most at peace when I know how my day will go and that each thing on the “to-do” list is checked off. I am uncomfortable with spontaneity and…
Brian Doerksen – Finding Hope Hidden On A Detour
Joyce and I started out as high-school sweethearts and we ended up being blessed with 6 children including 3 of them with special needs. After finding out that our first son had Fragile X Syndrome and would require care for a lifetime, we decided to try to have 1 more…
(Un)Answered Prayers
“When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” (John 11:32) I’m sure I’m not the only one who has asked God to step in and provide wisdom…
Treasure These Things in Your Heart
Happy New Year! I know Christmas was last week already, but stay with me for a second. This Christmas, I was struck by the fact that there was so much hubbub and noise around the time Jesus was born. First, an angel appears to a priest, a young virgin, and…