You ask why I follow this Jesus?
Why I love Him the way I do
When the world's turned away from His teachings
And the people who serve Him are few?
It's not the rewards I'm after
Or gifts that I hope to receive,
It's the Presence that calls for commitment
It's the Spirit I trust and believe.
"The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours."
- John Piper, Battling Unbelief: Defeating Sin with Superior Pleasure
When I was about 13 and my brother 10, our father promised to take us to the circus. But then at lunchtime there was a phone call--some urgent business that required his attention downtown--and we braced ourselves for disappointment. But then we heard him say, "No, I won't be able to come down. It's going to have to wait."
"The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting."
- Oswald Chambers
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A discussion about Truth and Reconciliation with two members of the Wiikwemkoong First Nation, and a member and Chief of the Aundeck Omni Kaning First Nation.
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"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow."