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What a blessing is it to hear from Mae-tuin this past Sunday. It’s always a pleasure and a privilege to hear from the Family of Lifespring. After hearing Mae-tuin’s message, I took away two things. Never get in the car with Mae-tuin unless you have a gas tank, cash, or a means to purchase gas because 9 times out of 10 the car is on “E”  Fill up your tank: Mental, Physically, and Spiritually by Focusing on God Mae-tuin challenged…

We recently had our back patio and walkway/stairs of the house redone so I’ve been living the luxury of a No-Weeding-Needed Reality!! As temporary as it may be, it has allowed me to focus more on some of the other plants we have in our backyard. Lately, I’ve been especially captivated by our vines… As I was lifting up/rearranging some of the grapevine branches the other day, I realized that many of the little off-shoots had been growing around my…

No matter how much you try to be someone else, you can’t. Trust me, I can try to be like Laura, Ryan, Gabe or Jerry but honestly I’d fail. Why? Because I’m not them and they are not me. I cannot be them and they cannot be me. I was created to be Andrew and no one else. In fact, I’m not good enough to be someone else. I just don’t have it in me. No matter how much I…

“For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that He might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.” Romans 14:9 The Rich and the Kingdom of God17 As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. “Good teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 18 “Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone. 19…

Dear LifeSpring Family, Happy Canada Day!!! What a blessing to be born and/or live in this great country, Canada. As most of us are aware, Canada’s founding principles were based on the recognition of God over our land. In fact, Psalms 72:8 is inscribed on the Peace Tower of our Parliament Building in Ottawa. With the current high inflation rate, the war in Ukraine, and the turmoil of the recent statement from the U.S Supreme Court regarding Roe v Wade,…

Every year in the Wee household we stand all the kids against the wall and see how much they have grown over the past year. It is always followed with screams and shouts of excitement, “Did I get taller”?! What I found most interesting is that the entire year they were all getting taller, but only when they stood by their measurements were they excited to see how much they have grown. Like these little kids, we too can get…

Children are naturally curious and have all sorts of questions! The people they’re seeking answers from, aunties and uncles, parents and grandparents alike, will likely range in creativity and capacity for responding to all of those “But why?!” questions. If I’m being perfectly honest, it is super tempting to shrug off challenging or unexpected questions from our KidzHarbour children… especially when they’re interrupting the flow of a lesson! It can be hard to see the value in listening to a…

When you write enough papers, you start to become familiar with the rules of grammar either through violation or adherence. In my case it is often through violation or in other words, making mistakes that helps me learn the rules of grammar. My wife tells me all the time that I should stop writing like I’m talking because it often leads me to write grammatically incorrect sentences. As you read through this, you may find this to be true but…

Dear LifeSpring Family, Hearing Pastor Gabriel preached to us on Father’s Day on Sunday and reading his devotions this past Monday, challenged me to be more like the Second Adam. Most of us are familiar with the story of the fall of the first Adam and his helpmate, Eve in Genesis chapter 3. From Genesis chapter 3, Dr. Robert Lewis reminded me of the lessons that I can learn from the first Adam’s approach/behavior to being a man, husband, and…

When I married Karyne, I told her I was a great boyfriend, but I had no idea how to be a husband. When I became a father to Justus, I didn’t tell him – but the same rule applied, I had no idea what it meant to be a father. Ignorance often results in experimentation. Experimentation can lead to disaster. Imagine being on an island and seeing a brand new car for the very first time. You have no idea…

If you’ve lived long enough you know that bad days are inevitable. Bad days are the worst to say the least. They can send you down on spirals of negativity where it seems like there’s no turning back. Sometimes a day can be so bad that we start to question whether or not God had anything to do with it.  Have you ever asked God this “God, why would you let that happen?” or how about this “God, if you…

One of the passages we memorized as a Pastoral Team is probably quite familiar to many of you: Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand…