Posts Tagged ‘Canada’

The greatest of these is love….

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

I’ve been thinking a lot about love recently. I guess it started after reading an article about the state of teenagers in our nation. It was an interesting article to read as it was full of studies and surveys of Canadian teenagers. The general gist was that teenagers of this millennium are drinking less, doing less drugs and having less sex. Which in itself, should be an encouraging statistic… except that according to the same article, the number of teenagers claiming to be Christian has fallen dramatically over the past 20 years. There are multitudes of teenagers converting to other faiths, like Islam and Buddhism, but sadly not to Christianity.

So I guess the question is, why? (more…)

A New Season

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Blogs. These days everyone is writing them. Everybody, it seems, wants to have their opinion heard. There are a million blogs out there on a million different topics. So why another one?

Well, because it’s the start of a new season for the Bassett family. And this is a blog about that journey. It’s an exciting journey – one that involves moving countries and planting a church… seeing one season come to an end and another one begin. And all because of a God whisper… well, if I’m truthful it was actually more like a shout than a whisper. (more…)