Posts from 2026

Have you ever wondered how great songs are made? One of the things I’ve noticed with music is that great music seems to capture the raw emotions of the writer and stimulate them in others. In a book I’ve been reading, the author shared a conversation he had with a worship song writer Cody Carnes. You might know him as the guy on “The Blessings Song” from 2020, or perhaps you may know his song, “Nothing Else”, one of my…

Keeping one’s faith can be difficult. Believing in the unseen, believing in goodness in the midst of darkness. It is hard to keep your faith. It is especially difficult when we don’t see things happen the way we expect things to happen. Faith dwindles because it seems our prayers are unanswered. Strong faith becomes questionable faith, small becomes little faith, and if we are not careful, we can even lose our faith. How then do we hold onto faith? How…

Often when we think of worship, we think about songs of praise. However, worship can be anything that honors and shows reverence to God. Worship can look like seeing God’s hand in creation and responding with awe and gratitude, spending time with God in prayer, or trusting God with an uncertain circumstance. Worship plays a significant role in spiritual warfare. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of…

This past week, I tuned in to this global church conference livestream, and one of the things that stood out was this short video that was played near the end. It’s a song written by the Indonesian attendees for the Japanese church. One of their lyrics was “We kept the shape but lost the heart.” I think it resonated with me because sometimes we try to “keep the shape” in the sense of conforming to norms of society or what…

Dear LifeSpring Family, What a blessing it was to have Pat Koh preach on “Increase Our Faith in Our Covenant God” this past Sunday.  She suggested we close our eyes and imagine space with a line going through it, representing ourselves as a dot on this line. She also prompted us to see in our mind’s eye, where God was in this picture. This is what I “saw”.  I saw the vastness of space, like the pictures of the Milky Way…

It was a blessing last weekend to hear from Pat Koh, who is such a faithful spiritual mother in the LifeSpring family. As you can probably tell, one of Pat’s many gifts is the ability to teach, as she showed in her message on biblical covenants. In her message, Pat described the importance of three of the most important covenants in scripture. The Edenic covenant in Genesis 3:15 is about God’s covenant or promise to humanity of a Savior who…

I was listening to a few of our Family Weekend recordings this week, which you can access through the links below: Stephen Hawkins – Session 1: Where is Your Faith Stephen Hawkins – Session 2: Fighting for Your Faith Stephen Hawkins – Session 3: Live by Faith Stephen Hawkins – Session 4: From Fear to Faith Stephen Hawkins – Session 5: People of Faith As I was listening to Session 1: Where is Your Faith? the thing that stood out…

Something that has been stuck on me the past couple of weeks is the idea that we can move from Fear to Faith. These words have sat in my spirit, and I have been reminded of so many times in my life where faith has replaced fear. Most people, including myself, can be afraid and weary of the new. New circumstances, new surroundings, new experiences all come with a degree of uncertainty. In fact, the older I get, the more I…

We had an opportunity to hear from Adib and Sikander on Sunday, both who are Afghan Christians. One of the things that I appreciated about their message was their perspective coming from a background that is so different from ours. Adib and Sikander both became Christian in Afghanistan, and had to flee their homes because of persecution. In one way, their story is so different from ours. Yet as they shared, I also realized that their story had so many of…

I’ve been catching up on our Family Weekend recordings, and one of the main things that stood out for me from Stephen Hawkins’ sessions was when he spoke on the walls that we put up around our hearts. He said that out of our hurt, we put up a wall around our hearts because we don’t want to get hurt again, and when we do, we “lock out” the Holy Spirit from ministering to us. This also hinders our faith…

One of the fundamental beliefs I have is that we are all created in the image of God (Gen. 1:27). Not only are we created in His image and likeness but I also believe that we have everything we need in us to live. This requires an ongoing journey of self-discovery in order to unpack the unique human qualities God has bestowed in us. Christians have been freely given a gift that is not innate or inherited upon birth but…

For those of you who joined us at the Family Weekend, I believe you now understand why I wrote my grade 8 assignment – the most interesting person you know – on Stephen Hawkins. I chose to write this paper when I was 13 years old. That was 28 years ago and I could write a new paper on him today. For LifeSpring, it felt like he was the right person, for the right time. A man that would encourage…