Articles & Ideas.

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life that is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”

~ Henry David Thoreau'

Standing Before God

I recently found an old journal of mine and started going through it. I think I’ll post some things that were meaningful to me. I won’t...

Darryl Buckle

1 min read

Are there conditions to discipleship?

I just stumbled on a short video by the guys at Verge Network of a guy named Rodrick Gilbert, a church planting leader in North India....

Darryl Buckle

2 min read

Tears

So on Sunday at Redwood we looked at the encounter that a couple of gals named Mary and Martha had with Jesus, while He and his disciples...

Darryl Buckle

2 min read

Church Campus or Community Commons?

At Redwood we’ve been praying and thinking about where we see ourselves in the years to come. We feel like we’re just getting started...

Darryl Buckle

1 min read

Right! Right?

Not only do we believe that the Scriptures are inspired, we also embrace the belief that they are inerrant with regards to their...

Darryl Buckle

1 min read

Says Who?

The next subject we’re going to look at in our brief look at the Bible is Inspiration. Just who wrote the Bible? Why do we call it God’s...

Darryl Buckle

3 min read

A Great Story and More!

After an interesting conversation with a lady recently I thought i’d do a few posts about the Bible. The Bible tells a truly incredible...

Darryl Buckle

4 min read

closing the gap

Over the last year I’ve had the privilege of teaching a fair bit at Redwood Park Church. I love to teach. I love to tell stories. I...

Darryl Buckle

1 min read

Stand at my shoulder

This coming week I’m heading down to southern Ontario for the quarterly meeting of our district executive committee. Serving on this...

Darryl Buckle

2 min read

A Means To An End

The single greatest thing that you can do, no matter where you are in your faith journey, to grow in your faith is to read and meditate...

Darryl Buckle

2 min read

Time Alone

Deitrich Bonhoeffer said, “Let him who cannot be alone beware of community . . . . Let him who is not in community beware of being...

Darryl Buckle

2 min read

On The Drive

It never ceases to amaze me how my kids can bring up the most profound ideas and questions at the most surprising of times.This weekend...

Darryl Buckle

2 min read

Enough’s Enough

Today I read a great post from Rachel Held Evans that pointed me to this incredible idea by St Teresa of Avila: Let nothing upset you,...

Darryl Buckle

1 min read

A posture of listening

Michael Frost is one of my favourite author’s and has influenced my thinking more than perhaps anyone, on what it means to be the church...

Darryl Buckle

1 min read

Prayer for the week

Most loving Father, whose will it is for us to give thanks for all things, to fear nothing but the loss of you, and to cast all our care...

Darryl Buckle

1 min read

A Lifestyle of Grace

So yesterday we completed our second in a short, three-week series on Grace at Redwood Park Church in Thunder Bay. As might be expected,...

Darryl Buckle

1 min read

King Jesus Gospel by Scott McKnight

Most of evangelism today is obsessed with getting someone to make a decision; the apostles, however, were obsessed with making disciples....

Darryl Buckle

2 min read

Time

“God has not bowed to our nervous haste, nor embraced our machine age. The man who would know God – must give Him Time!” A.W. Tozer...

Darryl Buckle

1 min read

If

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet with Triumph and...

Darryl Buckle

1 min read

The Big Game

I’m not sure if it’s the smell of baked goods, or freshly ground coffee, or the dim lighting, or the leather couches that beckon you to...

Darryl Buckle

2 min read