Wow, I can’t believe it’s been so long since I last posted on the site.  This is just a quick update to say how excited I am about our son Ewen.  He’s been incredible.  Still keeps us up at night but today, he smiled at me, for the first time, on his own, without gas! [...]

Wow.  The past month or so has been amazing.  I have been working with a group of 16-year-olds in an intensive leadership development program.  I’ve had the opportunity to share some thoughts with them, watch several of them make key decisions in their life about the role Jesus will play in their future and had [...]

I had an interesting conversation with a young adult recently who talked about a sibling of theirs who was afraid to wear nice clothes or be fashionable because they were worried someone might think they were gay.  Wow.  Talk about a wake up call.  Because of my personal investment in the life of this sibling [...]

“Systems change behaviours.” – Andy Stanley That simple quote has meant a lot over the last number of weeks as the post-Drive Conference energy continues.  Over the last number of weeks our team of leaders here has been working behind the scenes on many of the systems that make up how we do ministry.  It’s [...]

I know what you’re thinking.  James, what are you doing posting about Justin Bieber, wait, this makes sense actually.  Well, in all fairness I’ve been a supporter of ‘the Bieber’ for a while.  I knew that there was a story of faith there and I knew that up until now, there hasn’t been too much [...]