by Jeremy Nippard | May 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
Why are you a Pentecostal? Is it history, present experience, future hope, or a combination of them all? If you dug out my baptism certificate, you would know that I was Christened Anglican. Mom returned to her childhood faith at a Pentecostal Sunday School when my...
by David Kentie | Feb 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
We all want power in our lives. Whether it’s our workplace, our church, our direction, or even our relationships, the quest for power over such things feeds an inner need for security that often transcends logic. If I could only make my boss do this, or make my pastor...
by Jeremy Nippard | Jan 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
One of the things I love most about working at the PAONL is the sense of belonging. I’m not sure what you envision when you think of walking in the doors at 57 Thorburn, but for me it is a family. Mary, Owen and Dave are more than just MDSI Team members. Owen and I...
by Jeremy Nippard | Nov 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
“Do not remember the former things, or consider things of old. I am about to do a new thing. Now it springs forth. Do you not perceive it?” (Isaiah 43:18-19). As long as I can remember, I have had spiritual FOMO (fear of missing out). As a young person, I was often...
by Jeremy Nippard | Aug 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
It was a profoundly spiritual moment for me at MDSI Summit 2023, sitting at a table surrounded by other leaders and prayerfully shaping a mound of clay. The keynote speaker had asked us to form what we hoped God would mould us into this year. Though it might not have...
by Jeremy Nippard | Jun 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
How to Love a Town One of the most beautiful, relatable, and surprising parts of scripture is that God loves towns. “And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their...
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