At the end of summer
September is a sort of New Year for most of us. Even if we aren’t in school ourselves, there’s something in the air that feels like a...
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Bedford Baptist
- May 29
- 4 min
Speaking Up About Jesus: Four P's
This past Sunday we talked about speaking up about Jesus. One way of speaking up about Jesus is evangelism: telling those who don't yet...
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Bedford Baptist
- Mar 8
- 3 min
What Were We Made For?
When I was in grade six, our Sunday morning routine began with a drive to the elementary school in Lake Echo. There, after seeing whether...
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Bedford Baptist
- Feb 16
- 3 min
Head and Heart (with a little note about history)
During this Lenten season I’ve decided to add a little extra reading to my daily routines. As a book lover, I remember with amusement...
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Bedford Baptist
- Feb 14
- 4 min
The Season of Lent
In the weeks leading up to Easter, the Christian church has traditionally kept a season of preparation, called Lent. During these weeks,...
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Bedford Baptist
- Nov 24, 2023
- 6 min
Overcorrections
The rumble strips on our highways have been a good invention. When you’re behind the wheel and fall into a moment of inattention or...
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Bedford Baptist
- Nov 1, 2023
- 3 min
Saints
We were at the Sunday afternoon worship service at the nursing home when John said something to me that he had said on another occasion:...
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Bedford Baptist
- Oct 25, 2023
- 4 min
Three Types of Prayer
What should happen when we pray? What kind of thoughts or words are we supposed to have when we pray? If we take our lead from Scripture,...
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Bedford Baptist
- Oct 19, 2023
- 3 min
Rules of Life
One of the things I have long admired about Catholicism is the idea, found in the monastic wings of the Church, of submitting to a rule...
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Bedford Baptist
- Oct 11, 2023
- 2 min
Gideon and the Absence of God
When Gideon, that famous leader of Israel who constantly wondered whether he was correctly hearing God’s voice, first encountered the...
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Bedford Baptist
- Oct 5, 2023
- 3 min
Stories, stories, stories, and the Great Story
Every day I am invited to pay attention to stories. At the top of our social media feeds run the stories of our friends and...
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Bedford Baptist
- May 24, 2023
- 4 min
A Few Reflections on Home
As most of you probably know, Dee and I spent sixteen years in New Brunswick before coming back here to our home province and city. It’s...
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Bedford Baptist
- Apr 1, 2023
- 2 min
Questions about Death and the Christian Hope, Part 3
Living With a View to the Resurrection In two previous posts I attempted to summarize the biblical witness about death and the hope we...
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Bedford Baptist
- Mar 31, 2023
- 3 min
Questions About Death and Christian Hope, Part 2
In the previous post, I began to share some reflections on what the Bible has to say about death and the hope that we have in Christ. I...
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Bedford Baptist
- Mar 30, 2023
- 4 min
Questions about Death and Christian Hope, Part 1
On each of the last two Saturdays I have attended funerals. One was for a family member, and I was in the position of leading the...
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Bedford Baptist
- Feb 23, 2023
- 4 min
A Short On-Ramp: A Pastor's Appreciation of Church
On the drive from Saint John to Fredericton you come to a point where Highway 7, which passes over the Trans-Canada Highway, loops down...
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Bedford Baptist
- Feb 10, 2023
- 3 min
The Longing for Meaning: Phoebe Bridgers' "Chinese Satellite"
The past few weeks I’ve found myself listening over and over again to a song from Phoebe Bridgers’ haunting 2020 album Punisher called...
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Bedford Baptist
- Feb 4, 2023
- 3 min
The Importance of Ordinary Prayer, Pt. 2: Saying Grace
In one of the segments of the 1948 Disney anthology film Melody Time, the character of Johnny Appleseed sings a song as he gathers the...
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Bedford Baptist
- Jan 19, 2023
- 3 min
The Importance of Ordinary Prayer, Pt. 1: Waking and Sleeping
Prayer can sometimes seem either overly simple or overly challenging. On the one hand, prayer can be as simple as thinking of a need and...
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Bedford Baptist
- Jan 11, 2023
- 4 min
Corinth, Lost, and Transformation
This is a post I wrote and posted on another platform in early 2022. Given that the New Year is often greeted by thoughts about making...
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