“I have cancer.” Jocelyn’s voice sounded a million miles away. Unreal. Words I never expected to hear from my wife. (more…)
Bob JonesMay 11, 2019
John Maxwell is one of the leading influencers when it comes to leadership hopefuls. He taught me about making my car a university on wheels. His idea was to use commute time as an opportunity to listen to leadership tapes. I bought in to his "Injoy Life Club" and played his tape-of-the-month every morning and evening. (more…)
Bob JonesMay 10, 2019
Don and Jim, two leaders I liked and respected insisted that a 7 hour round trip to hear John Maxwell would be a great beginning for my new role as lead pastor of a large church. I had never heard of John Maxwell but once we met there was no forgetting him. That daylong seminar in Calgary, Alberta in 1994 started a decades long appreciation for his work. (more…)
Bob JonesMay 10, 2019
Kristen Fersovitch was a 28 year-old wife and mother of three sons under the age of four, when she was diagnosed with inoperable cancer and given only months to live. Like an ornament on a beautifully decorated Christmas tree, her life went on display for all to see. (more…)
Bob JonesMay 10, 2019
The thing is, being a mom doesn’t stop for anything. Not for blizzards, not for late nights, and not for cancer. It was July 2017, and I had just gone through another round of CT scans. Checking my voicemail, I heard the familiar voice of my oncologist. “Hi, Julie,” she says in her quiet, steady voice. “I have your lab results back and I’d like to discuss them with you.” (more…)
Bob JonesMay 9, 2019
When Angela was in the deepest valley of her life, climbing a mountain was a way she got through it and now she's helping other women facing their own valley reach the same heights. (more…)
Bob JonesMay 8, 2019
Here’s to all the mothers who’ve endured sports they don’t enjoy (or fully understand), hard seats and dirty cleats, frozen hands and numbed cheeks, aches and pains and grassy stains, just to be with a son or daughter in the arena of competition. Mothers: they see life through biased eyes. (more…)
Bob JonesMay 8, 2019
Being a pastor is not something to which I aspired. It certainly wasn't a childhood dream. By nurture, I'm a people person. By nature, I'm a loner. (My teenage ambition was to be a hermit. Really) I'm like a turtle on a fence post. When you see a turtle on a fence post you know it didn't get there on its own - someone put it there. My fence post is a platform of genuine love for the people God has entrusted to my care. (more…)
Bob JonesMay 5, 2019
The late Kosuke Koyama - pastor, theologian - imagined Jesus says this to those who see him upon death: “You’ve had a difficult journey. You must be tired, and dirty. Let me wash your feet. The banquet’s ready.” Koyama’s image rings true to me about Rachel Held Evans. (more…)
Bob JonesMay 5, 2019
Niki Oudenaarden is a new and familiar face on the Summer Olympic trail. Tracking the achievements of the world's best and Canadian Olympians in particular has been a Jones family tradition since our sons were little. (more…)
Jones BobMay 3, 2019