I Found a Home

Last updated on: February 8, 2008 at 2:45 pm By David Hayward

I received a call yesterday from someone who wanted to interview me regarding emerging forms of Christian and church expression in Canada. It was a nice talk. He asked me about the community I pastor. I told him what I could. But I could appreciate the frustration this guy must feel when trying to get a grip on what’s happening here. I could tell he understood much of what I was saying. We seem to be on the same page.... Read more

cartoon: pastors cook-off

Last updated on: February 8, 2008 at 10:56 am By David Hayward

You can purchase my cartoons HERE. I sign each and every one. If you’d like a certain cartoon printed for you, let me know and I’ll get it in my shop. Read more

cartoon: meet my buddies

Last updated on: February 7, 2008 at 2:24 pm By David Hayward

cartoon: satanic swine

Last updated on: February 6, 2008 at 3:43 pm By David Hayward

You can purchase this cartoon, as well as others, HERE. I sign each and every one. If you’d like a certain cartoon printed for you, let me know. Read more

Love Without Fear

Last updated on: February 5, 2008 at 6:56 pm By David Hayward

It is important to create an atmosphere of honesty, confession and repentance for a community to be healthy. My experience and the experience of many is that even though repentance is encouraged, it is at the same time discouraged because of the possible repercussions that follow. We have a choice: either encourage honesty and live compassionately in the midst of that; or encourage pretense and live severely in the midst of that. I see no other options. If you choose... Read more

cartoon: to meek or not to meek

Last updated on: February 5, 2008 at 9:29 am By David Hayward

Loving What Is

Last updated on: February 4, 2008 at 5:12 pm By David Hayward

I cannot change the world and I have no intentions of doing so. I can’t change the world, but I can change! So I don’t expect or ask the people of my community to change the world. I resist all invitations to change our city, to transform our town, to change our society. I always encourage us to work on ourselves. It is urgent! This at first might look like passivity. At the same time, I feel it is my... Read more

cartoon: stoned

Last updated on: February 4, 2008 at 1:56 pm By David Hayward

prayer from the cell: agreement

Last updated on: February 3, 2008 at 7:39 am By David Hayward

Britney Spears and Church Burnout

Last updated on: February 1, 2008 at 2:15 pm By David Hayward

What’s happening to Britney Spears has me thinking about how we treat the stars in our own communities. I think Britney is more of a victim of our culture than the cause of her own demise. I’ve seen this over and over again in my own life and in the lives of others in churches. This is roughly what happens: She shows that she’s gifted. She is invited to take responsibility as an opportunity to exercise or share this gift.... Read more

Which Christian group believes in "baptism of the Holy Spirit" with evidence of speaking in tongues?