Posts with the category “deleted-scenes”

A Note From Craig... Last Sunday here at The Bridge, I preached on the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1:1-17. I heard from multiple people that when they first heard that long roll call of strange-soun...  Read More

A Note From Craig... On Sunday here at The Bridge, we talked about some beautiful words. And I don’t just mean in the way they sound when you say them or look when you see them on a page. On that note...  Read More

A Note From Craig... As I’ve thought about the passage we delved into last Sunday (Romans 3:9-20), the line that keeps standing out to me is this: “so that every mouth may be silenced”. The end result...  Read More

A Note From Craig... On Sunday here at The Bridge, we talked about faithfulness. We talked about how we as humans are often fickle, finding it difficult to stick with commitments we’ve made when times...  Read More

A Note From Craig... On Sunday, I concluded the sermon with an invitation to let go of every spiritual badge of pride, every basis for self-righteousness, every way that we think we can save ourselves...  Read More

A Note From Craig... This post is going out on October 31, and we all know what day October 31 is, don’t we? Reformation Day! Everyone knows that on this day, little children dress up like their favou...  Read More

A Note From Craig... In this week’s “Deleted Scenes”, I’m going to give you a little bit of a “behind the scenes” look at what it’s like to preach certain texts. For quite a few months, stretching bac...  Read More

A Note From Craig... I shared on Sunday that one of my adult fears is conflict (as opposed to my childhood fears of Rocket Richard, the laundry room of my parents’ basement, small dogs, and time trave...  Read More

A Note From Craig... Here’s a question for you: what’s something you pray about on a regular basis because it weighs heavily on your heart? What do you find yourself crying out to God for again and ag...  Read More

A Note From Craig... On Sunday, we began our journey through the New Testament letter from Paul to the Christians in Rome. I did a semi-deep dive into the context of the letter, which I know is not so...  Read More

A Note From Craig... I think one of the best things about studying church history is finding out that whatever obstacles you’re facing, whatever doubts you’re experiencing, whatever temptations you co...  Read More

A Note From Craig... I was at a gathering of pastors and church leaders recently where we gathered into small groups to pray for one another. A pastor in my group was talking about some of the struggl...  Read More

A Note From Craig... People can have vastly different experiences of church life, can’t they? There are people who just drop in on an occasional Sunday service. They walk in, don’t talk to anyone, lea...  Read More

A Note From Craig... On Sunday, I spoke about patience. When you speak on something like patience, I get the sense you don’t even need to say much. People hear the word, and they say, “yep, I’m guilty...  Read More

A Note From Craig... There was a moment on Sunday while I was preaching that I said something I didn’t plan on saying. That’s always potentially dangerous. Sometimes those impromptu thoughts are from ...  Read More

A Note From Craig... As many of you know, about 40 of us from The Bridge Church spent last week at the Okanagan Gleaners in Oliver, BC. Here’s a quick debrief in case you’ve missed it: the Gleaners is...  Read More

A Note From Craig... When I was younger, my parents had a book that some of you might have had in your homes too. It was called “Operation World”. It was a reference book with statistics about religio...  Read More

A Note From Craig... As most of you know, this past Monday was Canada Day. Our family celebrated by all wearing red shirts for most of the day. For Canadians, that’s borderline fanatical on Canada Day...  Read More

A Note From Craig... I frequently hear from people how they’re struck by the depth and riches in the Scriptures. Guys at our early morning men’s group are amazed that we can spend a full hour talking ...  Read More

A Note From Craig... Recently, a few other Bridge guys and I have been playing a daily basketball puzzle game called “The Immaculate Grid”. It requires a pretty thorough knowledge of basketball player...  Read More

A Note From Craig... I really enjoy reading stories about extreme endurance athletes. Read is a key term there. As someone who finds running boring and painful, I don’t really envision myself ever doi...  Read More

A Note From Craig... Karl Marx is having a moment, isn’t he? I mean, his ideas have been around for 150 years or so, and multiple nations tried adopting those ideas as the organizing principle for the...  Read More

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