Lyn Dyck, Executive Director It’s time to BOLDLY love others as Christ loved us. Dear God, Do a miracle in me. When I walk into a room let me NOT think about me at all. God, I want to look at each person completely selflessly and just think about how I can bring the most […]
Early Anabaptist history records the incredible story of Dirk Willems, martyred for his faith in 1569. Willems is exemplified for the incredible love he showed toward his captor, whom fell through thin ice while pursuing him over a frozen river in Asperen, Holland. Willems turned back toward his pursuer and pulled him out of the […]
“How long O LORD?” is the endless cry of the characters in the Bible who faced suffering, as found in Scripture. This is also the cry of all of us today, as inevitable suffering enters each one of our lives. There is no need to convince anyone that all is not right in the world; […]
Ladies, this one is for you! I spent a few years as a youth missionary and a youth pastor. I would get calls in the middle of the night. Or on a day off I would meet someone from church. To these people, I was still pastor. It is a 24/7 job to serve people, […]
I have always been a guy that said and believed I had “zero fear” of what people might say, think or do to me. I have served in many different ways including contentious situations or issues where it was not always easy. But that was how I wanted it to be, zero fear. So, here […]
Imagine getting an email from a friend saying something like this, “We’ve gone through some incredibly hard times lately. It has been so utterly and unbearably crushing that we despaired of life itself. Sometimes we truly thought death was just around the corner.” Now imagine this was from your pastor, or a pioneering missionary whom […]
How Long, O Lord? A Biblical Theology of Suffering In Psalm thirteen the phrase repeats like a staccato beat in the whole first stanza: How long? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? Leave me to struggle with anxiety, weariness all the time? How long will the enemy […]
It’s Time …To Intimately Worship God Openly Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. – Romans 12:1 “this is your true and proper worship”, what is the Apostle Paul referring to? “Offer your […]
It’s Time … It is time… to intimately worship God openly. To be passionate publicly. To be unashamedly devoted to God. To let our lives resound to the praise of His glory. Romans 12:1: “I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and […]
February 6 and 7, 2019, seventeen leaders and pastors from all 5 of our EMMC Regions will join Executive Director Lyn Dyck at the Multiply Conference in Vancouver, BC. God has called us to multiply, make disciples and teach! Matthew 28:18-20 says we are to make disciples. Each year at the Multiply Conference, they gather […]