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Remembrance and Hope
University Sabbaticals provide space to build in different ways into the things that mean most to you in life. So thank you Grace Van congregation, elders and staff for making this sabbatical possible. On Thursday I was able to travel to Spokane, WA to pick up our middle son Isaac after his completion of his Continue reading
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Correction to Previous Post, 4.5% of Professing Christians in Metro Vancouver
I wanted to make a correction to the statistics on my previous post. My friend Pastor Ted Ng clarified a small misunderstanding I had in the statistics. 33% of people in metro Vancouver, population 2.6 million people, say they are a Christian of one stripe or another; that statistic I got right. 15% of those Continue reading
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1.5% of Professing Christians in Metro Vancouver
So it was the fourth Sunday of Eastertide, but also my first Sunday of sabbatical. Last night I had it all mapped out, in the morning I would go to one of the “larger” churches in Vancouver and in the afternoon I would attend my friend Pastor Ted Ng’s church Faith Community Christian Church which is a Continue reading
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On Sabbatical, Re-Awakening Mike’s Blog
It’s been over two years since I last posted on this blog. After my father passed away in June 2021, these last couple of years have represented for me a time of grieving the loss of two parents who set so much of the foundation for me regarding the man I am today (I lost Continue reading
About Mike
Mike is 54-years-old and has been married to his beloved wife Tanya since 1995. Together they have three terrific children, a much-loved foster son, “foster” daughter-in-law, an adored Bernedoodle Otis and cat Leo. Mike has been the lead pastor of Grace Vancouver Church in Canada since 2013. In 2017, Mike completed his Doctor of Ministry work on faith, vocation, belonging and place.
ABOUT EUDAIMONIA
“Eudaimonia” is a word from classical Greek that is generally attributed to Aristotle and means “human flourishing.” When Jesus tells us in John 10:10 that He came that we might have “life to the full,” that is eudaimonia. When Jeremiah tells the exiles to seek the peace and prosperity of the city (and pray for it), that is eudaimonia (Jer. 29:7). When the kings of the earth bring their glory to the heavenly city illumined by the glory of the Son, that is eudaimonia (Rev. 21:24). When the peoples of this earth know justice, goodness, forgiveness, reconciliation and the blessings of God that reach as far as the curse is found, we will all know eudaimonia. Eudaimonia is mostly about restored relationships and joyful reunions. The unbridled joy of my bride seeing our son for the first time in six weeks after seeing him off to university, captures a moment of eudaimonia.
The Eudaimonia Blog 