Last Saturday evening, November 9, at church, we had two meaningful Q&A events: one for the church's teenagers with Pastor Shawn Ellis, the communication/media director of Ontario Conference, and the other for their parents with the Willowdale pastors. As part of the pastoral team, I also participated in meaningful...
Greetings, Church family,
The pastoral team continues to expound the messages of the seven churches. The first major division of Revelation opens with the vision of the glorified Christ walking among the seven lampstands as High Priest (Rev. 1:9–20). He is here pictured as fulfilling the covenant promise given to...
Recently CAA (Crawford Adventist Academy) held its Fall Week of Prayer at Willowdale. Seeing the students enter the youth chapel every morning and hearing their singing from my office below brought back memories from my youthful past. You see, both Michelle and I are products of Adventist Christian Education....
We live in a world where we are constantly needing to check the emails that we receive. Every day, we receive unsolicited and unwanted emails. It is a constant battle to empty our trash and spam folders lest they overflow with hundreds and thousands of unread messages. Thank you,...
What is God’s will for us? Jesus often speaks of the will of God or the Father, but he rarely tells us directly what that will is. While surveying Jesus’ mentions about the will of God, I found two occasions in the gospels where Jesus directly tells us what...