Se rendre au contenu

Blog Authors Articles

Showing 12 of 91 articles

Visitors or Guests? How Warm is our Welcome?
By PortalBot • January 04, 2021

One day our churches will reopen. As we prepare for that eventuality, churches would do well to discern the difference between treating newcomers as visitors or guests.

Stretching out Christmas
By PortalBot • December 24, 2020

If you are like me, you are wishing that we could hold on to Christmas a little bit longer. 

I don’t want to take the tree down or put away the decorations.  Is it ok to sing Ch...

An Advent List: 3 Ways to Practice LOVE
By PortalBot • December 21, 2020

The celebration of Christmas is the celebration of God’s love.

Here are 3 suggestions to practice Love during the advent season. 

An Advent List: 3 Ways to Practice JOY
By PortalBot • December 16, 2020

If you are like me, then you have days when it is hard to be joyful.  The pandemic has not made me feel joyful. Like hope and peace, we can choose to be joyful despite circumstances that ...

An Advent List: 3 Ways to Practice PEACE
By PortalBot • December 07, 2020

Peace. It can be hard to feel peace when the world around us is in such turmoil and uncertainty, but God wants us to experience his peace.

Here are 3 suggestions to practice Peace du...

An Advent List: 3 Ways to Practice HOPE
By PortalBot • December 03, 2020

Christmas will look different this year, but our Christmas celebrations can still be filled with hope, peace, joy, love. 

Here are 3 suggestions to practice Hope during the adve...

What will Christmas look like in 2020?
By PortalBot • December 01, 2020

Christmas is going to look different this year. But our Christmas celebrations can still be filled with hope, peace, joy and love. 

$25
By PortalBot • November 25, 2020

Consider the purchasing power of $25 dollars here in Canada: A movie at the theater with popcorn and pop. Four or five large specialty coffees. Two months of Netflix. Dinner for two ...

A Canadian Prayer for our American Neighbours on Election Day
By PortalBot • November 03, 2020

A written prayer from Canada for our American Neighbours on Election Day 2020.  

International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church
By PortalBot • October 30, 2020

Join us in praying this Sunday, November 1st, on the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. 

What is The Church when it is not Meeting Publicly?
By PortalBot • October 13, 2020

What does the church look like when no one is attending? Do we identify the church by the location, facility, staff, programs, and services?  If our understanding of the church is tied to thes...

Fleshing out Two Principles for Making Disciples
By PortalBot • September 23, 2020

How do disciple-makers model themselves after Jesus, and how do disciples identify with the first disciples? Here are four ways we can learn from Jesus and the Twelve for making disc...