Whenever I visit Halifax, Nova Scotia, I pass certain landmarks, locations or even people that trigger certain memories. I quickly become aware of how far I have grown since leaving my hometown. What was once familiar seems like a different place because I am in a different place. Landmarks become Benchmarks. In Session 2 of […]

The Body of Christ walked the earth over 2000 years ago. He died on a cross, rose from the grave, and ascended. The Apostle Paul tells us that now, collectively, we are His Body. We are the Body of Christ. People will judge Him based on our actions. “By this everyone will know that you are

Have you spent your life with an attitude of entitlement? Do you think that everything that you have you deserve? I doubt this is your mindset. Or… Is it? Have you been secretly sucked into this way of thinking that repulses high achievers? In TMP Session 6, we discuss this very topic and answer this question, “What does

How are you celebrating your citizenship this week? My mother was born in Lebanon but moved to Canada with her parents. I was born and raised in Canada but moved to the United States with my own family, later to become an American citizen. It is not uncommon for God to move us out from

Danger and risk seem to be hardwired into boys at a young age. I don’t think that feeling ever completely dies. It just gets ignored.  The Santa Barbara mountain bike trails have been impassable and closed due to heavy erosion this season. Finally, here in June, they are opening up and I’ve been longing to get back on

This is an important question, and you’re probably wondering why I’m asking, “Are you handing out blankets in hell?” In The Master’s Program, we say we want to be in our Father’s business through our calling (our life’s mission). Yet, three elements must be engaged in your calling. Do you remember them?  Love God, love

As we enter the summer months and transition begins on numerous fronts… I see the need to launch into a new challenge. My personal mission statement and challenge for the summer of 2023 is Grow in the Son – physically, relationally and intellectually. I am inviting the Holy Spirit to inform growth in all areas of the

Eternity.  The mind struggles to grasp it.  When we’re young, the boundaries of time are rarely considered. We live as though the end does not exist. Then, typically in concert with a midlife crisis, our death date comes into view on the horizon. Most try not to dwell on it, so they fill our lives with distraction from

Go back to 4th-grade math. Arithmetic memorization was the only acceptable way to finish math problems. Yet, as we got that down, we eventually took out our calculators to solve the puzzles without working it out in our minds. It was so much faster this way! The result? We flew through math and even accomplished

Do you know which of the 10 Commandments was the first to include a promise? In Exodus 20:12, the fifth commandment states, “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.” As a parent, I was raising my own children while functioning in an