Posts with the category “newsletter-articles”

A Note From Craig... Recently, Carolyn and I re-watched one of my favourite all-time movies: Inception. If you’re unfamiliar, Inception is a 2010 movie all about dreams (specifically, sharing dreams w...  Read More

A Note From Craig... Last Friday, I had a very unique opportunity. I was asked to speak at the Children’s Heart Network Gala. (I should say we were asked to speak, as in both Carolyn and I, but she 10...  Read More

A Note From Craig... We had an epiphany this morning at our staff meeting. This past Sunday was of course a great morning where we worshiped the Lord and heard good news, including a testimony. I know...  Read More

A Note From Craig... As we’ve begun a series in Daniel, one theme that shows up repeatedly is God’s sovereignty. As I quoted one author, this means that “God is in control of who’s in control.” That s...  Read More

A Note From Craig... First off, last Sunday was just amazing. Huge kudos to our kids and Kaleo volunteers/staff (Kaleo is our kids’ performing arts ministry). They put so much time into preparing for ...  Read More

Isn’t it true that oftentimes in life, we don’t know the significance of something until much later? For example, when I met Carolyn for the first time, I was a very young youth pastor in my first yea...  Read More

The typical Sunday School answer would work here: “Jesus!” To have heard him praying to his Father would have been incredible. It would be impossible for anyone else to have the kind of intimacy and l...  Read More

If you’re even just a little bit of a fan of college basketball, you know that March is a special month. March Madness is the end-of-season NCAA tournament that begins with 68 teams and ends a few wee...  Read More

When I was a kid, I would receive a $20 allowance every month. My parents would also give me clear guidelines on how that money was to be used. $10 was for saving. I actually have no memory now of wha...  Read More

Our staff is currently reading through “The Screwtape Letters” by C.S. Lewis. If you haven’t read it or heard about it, it’s a book Lewis wrote in 1941 that has one of the more unique formats you’ll c...  Read More

Are we, as humans, becoming less able or willing to make relational commitments? I’ve been thinking about that question after preaching on Malachi 2:10-16 this past Sunday. Is failure to commit a phen...  Read More

At the first church I served in as a pastor, there was always a feature in the worship service called “the children’s moment”. It was where all the kids in the church would come up to the front and so...  Read More

In Malachi 1:6-14, something that struck me was the mindset of the priests of Malachi’s day concerning their everyday work. As I said on Sunday, they hadn’t chosen this work. It was theirs by virtue o...  Read More

In the aftermath of the pandemic in 2020-2021, we heard a lot of language about “building back better”. This was an idea that had apparently surfaced a bit in World Economic Forum circles in years bef...  Read More

Flash back to March and April of 2020. When you read that sentence, your instant reaction might be “nooooo! Not that again!”  I mostly feel the same. But some good things came of those early pandemic ...  Read More

First off, I promise this article is going to have to do with Christmas. I also promise that the next two Sundays will be Christmas focused. As much as we all loved going through Acts, I was getting t...  Read More

You might have heard that we are having a congregational meeting this Sunday after our worship service, and that we are holding a membership class in the evening.  And right now, you might be thinking...  Read More

Back during the height of the pandemic, while our new building was under construction, I immersed myself in the last half of the Old Testament prophet Isaiah. There were so many passages there that en...  Read More

Last Saturday, we held our Fall Carnival here at The Bridge. As always, it was an amazing event that brought people from our surrounding community through the doors of our church building, giving them...  Read More

I’m keeping it short this week, and this is why. Instead of writing a bunch of stuff myself, I’m going to point you to something......  Read More

Complacency is a familiar concept in the sports world. You’ll have a team that’s been dominant, rolling over other clubs left and right, until they meet a team that they see as absolutely no threat. I...  Read More

I’m not a car guy. At all. Not that I had tricked any of you into thinking otherwise. One look at my car is all it really takes to come to that conclusion. But here’s a bit more evidence. For the las...  Read More