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Herb’s Encounter with Jesus

Herb was the father of a dear childhood friend of mine. He was diagnosed with cancer and passed away a few years later. On September 11, 2023 he had a significant vision that is now circling around North America and Europe and perhaps beyond. This was a vision that gave him incredible comfort in the…
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Rest by Design: Why Generic Sabbaticals Don’t Work

You were not made generically.And so what brings you rest and what depletes you is not generic either. That’s the thought I keep coming back to as I’ve been working on a new resource — one that pairs our gifting and personality with something we don’t often think to personalize: sabbatical rest. I recently enjoyed…
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The Prophetic Gap: What Do You Do When the Word God Gave You Hasn’t Come Yet?

A question landed in my feed recently that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about. Someone in a ministry group asked it honestly, and asked it well: “How do you live faithfully, psychologically healthily, and relationally ethically when you believe you’ve received significant prophetic revelation, circumstances appear to contradict it, and you cannot yet…
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Look Up: See the Pattern from a Higher Perspective (Snowbirds 3x)

Sometimes God gets my attention through Scripture. Sometimes through prayer. And sometimes through something completely unexpected – like events right in front of me… This summer, I had the unexpected privilege of seeing the Canadian Forces Snowbirds three different times. Here’s what I noticed God highlighting to me…
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The Unhappy Neighbour

The other day, on the beach, a woman I’d never met before began to share her concerns with me about a hostile situation she was observing. I found myself telling her something that seemed to shift her perspective. I shared with her that I woke up that very morning thinking of a short story of…
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A Blessing Over Canada

I want to bless our nation. Here’s what I believe: nations are not accidents. God doesn’t just let countries happen and then hope for the best. He creates and shapes them, on purpose, the way He shapes a person — with a redemptive gift, a calling, a reason for existing that goes deeper than politics…
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Naive? The State of My Heart

I’ve been called naive a few times in my adult life. I winced when I first heard it. Lately, I’ve noticed it could actually be a compliment in disguise… (Jesus loves doing this kind of thing – turning hurtful words from others into His truth. I talk about this exercise in Part 3 of: God,…
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Blessing Prayers for Others’ Redemptive Gifts

The Redemptive Gifts concept based off of Romans 12 has always been a game changer. It’s freedom to discover one’s own gifts and how to walk in them fully! Then, learning how to bless our spirits has been another game changer. These are crafted prayers according to each redemptive gift…


