Lakeside Church

7654 Conservation Road, Guelph,ON  519-836-8141
Summer Service Time: Sunday 10:00 a.m.

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Re-Entry

Over the last couple of days I have been trying to take all that I have written in four journals, all that I have read in over a couple of dozens of books, all the whispers and promptings I have se

A Living Eulogy

I have just finished watching the videocast of yesterday’s message at Lakeside and I am still trying to process what the speaker had to say about me as he opened the service.  They were words

A Technological Sabbatical

I have been very faithful writing my blog this summer as I have been on sabbatical.  But this is the first post in over a week.  I am sure that some of you have been wondering what has happened.  H

The Importance of Introspection

With just over two weeks left of my sabbatical (has it ever gone by quickly) I am sitting in Williams today and I am reflecting on many of the things that God has nudged me about over the last two

A Movement of God

Over the summer, from all of my travels, from the conferences I have attended, from the courses I have taken, from a wide variety of reading I have done and from many conversations that I have had,

Confession and Healing

As I stood in line, waiting my turn, all I could hear was the continual pounding of nails throughout the large auditorium.  Over 3500, all or most who had written things that they were fearing in t

The Whispers and Promptings

I have been reading a book by Bill Hybels called “The Whispers of God”.  Hybels contends that God wants to speak to each of us through the promptings of His Spirit and that God seeks us

A Special Day In Ministry

Today was a special day for me.  It will be one of the highlights of my ministry years that I will remember for a long time.  Today,  I had the privilege to speak at the Celebrate Recovery Conferen

Know Your Audience

Yesterday I had the opportunity to speak at the church that I grew up in.  As I stepped back into that church it brought back so many memories.  I had attended this church for almost twenty years. 

Leadership Summit – Part 2

As I did on my last post – I am going to summarize in my own words using a bullet point format the key thoughts from the final day of the leadership Summit.

The Leadership Fire Hose

Today was day one of what just might be my favourite leadership development event of the year – the Willow Creek Leadership Summit.  It was jam packed filled with great leadership information

Faith Stretching Prayers

Over the last seven weeks I have been sharing a little about what I have been thinking and reading and what God has been prompting my spirit with.   I prepared a series of questions prior to my sab

Heading Home

I have been away from home for 45 of the last 49 days.  It seems like forever.   Tommorw I head home.   I am so looking forward to it.   Knowing that I would be going home eventually,  has had a in

Great Words of Wisdom

This morning I had an awesome opportunity to sit and be mentored by one of the greatest “pastor to pastors” that I know.  He sat at my table and he poured out his heart, sharing with me some of the

A Great Promise and Prayer

There are many times I forget that the letters in the New Testament were not written for individual application but were written to a community with a communal application in the mind of the writer

My Purpose

It is hard for me to believe but my sabbatical is already half over.  Today I start week seven of twelve.  But the last six weeks have been incredible – especially the last three – as G

FEAR

In my study and journal time today – I focused on the word “fear”.  I am finding myself a little more fearful the older I get.  When I was younger, fear didn’t seem to be so

Resentment

I was reading through Matthew 20 focusing on the parable of the “Workers In the Vineyard” and the word that came to my mind while reading this parable was the word “resentment&#82

Are Weekend Services Essential?

The title asks a great question – does attending weekend services make much of a difference to the way I live my life – live out my faith – interact with other people in my world.