Drawing near to God: The bible says that it is impossible to draw near to God without drawing near to others. When asked what commandment was the greatest, Jesus replied: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest … [Read more…]
Drawing near to God: It’s quite common to become irritable during a fast. In a total food fast this moodiness is accentuated. In our Nepali fast, you may not be having hunger pangs, but you may be craving some more familiar cuisine. Either way our stomachs really do have a say in how we’re feeling. … [Read more…]
Welcome to the first full day of our Nepali Fast! These daily updates are meant to inspire and inform us in our prayer and fasting activities this week. Drawing Near to God Part of what it means to draw near to God is to pray that we have his heart – that we see the … [Read more…]
It’s what we all want isn’t it? To see life come to the dry bones? To see skin and flesh clothe hollow skeletons. To see the goodness and mercy of the Father enfleshed. To see the dream of a distant land flowing with milk and honey brought to our land. To see hope restored and … [Read more…]
Many are familiar with the line in Psalm 23, “…goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life…” It’s a nice thought, but a one that does not nearly capture the tenacity of God’s goodness and mercy. These qualities don’t follow us around like a lost puppy looking for its home. Goodness … [Read more…]
Isaiah 58 Fast April 13 – 20 In the bible, fasting and prayer usually go together. Fasting isn’t simply about the lack of food, or the lack of anything else for that matter, but rather an intensified focus, or shift in perspective from something temporal to God. It’s about bringing our attention to the Lord … [Read more…]
We’ve been exploring points along Peter’s discipleship journey for the past few months (and we’ll continue for the next number of months). The audio recordings are posted here. Along the way, we’ve commissioned various artists – both visual and performance – to share their interpretations of what they’re learning. It’s like looking at the subject … [Read more…]
The water we need to live – that we need to really live – does not come from earthen springs. It is not discovered in any well dug by human hands, not can it be drilled by any rig of human ingenuity. This water is not pumped, bottled, chlorinated or dammed up. It does not … [Read more…]
Greetings to all our friends and families. This months we gathered at Dharay Gaon place for the opening service of our new Church place for the community. It was so wonderful to be part of this journey, which we had started some years ago. As I sat there worshiping with the people of that community … [Read more…]
Sometimes one must leave home to find one’s way back. Here’s a Lenten reflection from The Work of the People.
Introduction: We had a great time on Monday, Feb 24 exploring some particular ways we’ve grown this past year as a community. We heard stories of some compelling fruit in a number of people’s lives. We also looked at the financial fruit we’ve tasted these past few years. The apostle John said, it’s for the … [Read more…]
On March 5, we entered the season of Lent. A season, 40 days leading up to Easter, that the church has historically observed as a time of preparation. A time to prepare hearts, bodies and lives for the life that’s made available through Jesus’ resurrection. Lent is only helpful if it points us towards resurrection. … [Read more…]
Yesterday our Vineyard School of Justice – in collaboration with International Justice Mission Canada (IJM), Global Wonders, and Mennonite Central Committee – hosted a special evening on the subject of modern day slavery. We screened two short films (one of which was IJM’s latest documentary “At the End of Slavery“), had presentations by Angie Redecopp … [Read more…]
