Artwork by J.Kirk Richards The Incarnation, Hospitality and Advent | by David Ruis In late November, we gathered online for the last in our series of 2025 devos around the theme of Hope, Healing, and Hospitality. It was a rich time of communal pressing in and seeking...
Artwork by Caitlin Connolly, 2017 If you haven’t been part of our Online National Prayer gatherings, David Ruis and our Vineyard Canada Listening Team do a beautiful job of weaving song, prayer, poetry group spiritual direction and art together through a...
Artwork: The Annunciation to the Shepherds by Henry Ossawa Tanner You are With Me – A Blessing for Those Who Weep this Christmas | by Erika Kobewka Did you know that the first days of December are recognized in Canada as National Grief Awareness Week? What might...
Artwork: Incarnation by Tim Joyner “So give me strength, O God, to feel this grief deeply, never to hide my heart from it. And give me also hope enough to remain open to surprising encounters with joy, as one on a woodland path might stumble suddenly into...
Artwork: “All Ye That Are Heavy Laden” by J. Kirk Richards Extending Hospitality to the Displaced | by Krista Heide As our gospel texts demonstrate, the stories of advent are not all rosy and picturesque. Rather, themes of hardship, oppressive...
Artwork: Flight into Egypt by Henry Ossawa Tanner Great Displacement, Great Hospitality | by Krista Heide Hope, Joy, Peace, Love – these are the more familiar themes of Advent celebration, routinely woven into our reflections of the gospel accounts of the birth...
