Posts by Laura Puiras (Page 9)

“Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?”Matthew 6:26-27 Now that we have had two weeks of teaching about faith, I feel like each of us have many questions to ask ourselves! We’ve been asked to consider what it is that…

Earlier this spring I told WildFire that the thing I’m looking forward to most/hoping for this summer is to watch the massive fireworks display on Canada Day at Ashbridges Bay with my friends. It’s been a tradition for ages and has always meant a lot to me! But now, tomorrow is Canada Day and I’m finding myself in a very different place. In light of Making Every Effort and maturing in our faith; understanding the need to be open to…

This journey of growing in maturity that we’re on continues to bring us more and more into a place of dying to self and living for Christ! We’ve moved from learning about the Fear of God into Humility and then into being open for God to change us… naturally, correction is part of this journey of maturity. Last week Ryan preached about change. He encouraged us to truly pray the prayer we memorized from Psalm 134:23-24 “Search me, O God,…

“Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.”Hebrews 13:20-21 Happy First Day of Stage One Everyone! 🙂 We are SO excited to see 15% capacity of the church…

HOW IS IT JUNE ALREADY?! I do NOT understand how time can move so quickly and soooo sloooowly all at the same time. Whether or not I’m able to wrap my mind around it, here we are! The arrival of June means that summer is VERY close… and that many of you have completed the fasts you committed to in May! Well done 🙂 If you’re like me, you’ve wasted no time eagerly re-introducing, say, sugar, for example, to your…

This week in Kidz Harbour, I was telling everyone about Pentecost Sunday! About how, kinda like Christmas and Easter, there’s another really important day that we get to celebrate… an important day we need to remember! We talked about how strange it was that Jesus said he would be with his friends F O R E V E R and then he disappeared into the clouds! But of course, that’s not where the story ended. Because Jesus had also told…

“Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality. Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.Live in…

If you’ve been keeping up with our Devotions, you might have noticed some themes beginning to emerge. (If you’re like a certain father-to-be, LifeGroup leader who hates reading, I’ll fill you in, don’t worry :P)  The Pastoral Team, without even planning to, keep encouraging us to be praying more and to be seeking new perspectives on our current situations – to set our minds on things above. There seems to be a new sense of urgency rising for each of…

With the Easter weekend still fresh in our hearts and minds (some of us still enjoying that final day off) let’s pause for a moment to reflect on what all of it means for us. On Good Friday, as we read through the accounts of Jesus’ final days & hours before his crucifixion, we considered the cost of love. We picture Jesus hunched over in a secluded garden, travailing in prayer while his disciples sleep nearby. We see Jesus passed…

“Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.”Matthew 11:28-30 (The Message) I really love reading The Message every now and…

The last time I wrote one of our devotions, I was writing about the value of prayer – no matter what the outcomes may be. About how when we pray, we are connecting with God and being changed forever and for the better in the presence of God, even when things don’t go the way we hoped they would… Never could I have imagined how soon or how intensely many of us would be learning this lesson. How soon we…

As a Pastoral Team, we have been reading Unwritten together. It’s the story of John and Lorraine Baergen and what they learned/how they dealt with crisis. Tragedy struck their family in the form of a drunk driver and their lives were forever changed in the blink of an eye. Although none of us on the team have personally experienced tragedy in this way, or perhaps even on the same scale, so much of what they wrote is applicable for us…