Don’t Just do Something Today, Sit There
(Luke 10:38-42) Jesus didn’t have a case of FOMO, the “fear of missing out,” usually associated with social media. And that wasn’t because he was protected from overexposure to Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. He was perfectly comfortable in his own...
read moreA Call to Arms, Little Hands and Little Toes
“Isn’t it amazing, I mean how close we were to you never existing…that’s almost enough to make a person an anti-abortionist, isn’t it?” These were dad-to-daughter words spoken to Sarah Polley, Canada’s talented Oscar nominee filmmaker. In her documemoir, Stories...
read moreReal Faith Works Under Pressure
I recognize that over the months, for most of us, we clean forget the meals that we’ve eaten. But that’s not to deny the part they play in feeding, nourishing, and sustaining us. And the Bible’s nutrient rich teaching plays...
read moreHuman Life is Precious
(my reflections after attending LIFE CHAIN, a sidewalk, pro-life, prayer vigil hosted annually across Canada by Campaign Life Coalition) The Alarm Of all the pressing social issues of our day, abortion poses the most clear and present danger to the...
read moreUnsung Heroes
Back when I was a new teenager, I inherited my first official watch, one of my Dad’s old Timex watches. It had lived up to its slogan: it took a licking and kept on ticking. At that time, I was...
read moreCovidian Refreshment
What does it take to refresh you? The other day, paying for my gas in the local convenience store, I couldn’t help but marvel at the assortment of Energy Drinks and Energy Bars aimed to do the trick. Today, any...
read moreThe Greatest Christian Apologetic
I’m sure you’ve heard it said before that people don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. In other words, biblical love is the greatest Christian apologetic. Christian apologetics is a branch of theology that...
read moreGod Behaving Badly? Sexism & Misogyny
It’s no secret that our contemporary culture often jumps on the band wagon driven by militant atheists and feminists: the God of the Bible is sexist and responsible for the loathing of women for the past two thousand years. In...
read moreResurrection: Benefits for Believers
Supplemental teaching for session Eleven of Wayne Grudem’s 20 Life-Transforming Truths Could it be possible that within the church today the resurrection of Jesus is comparatively undervalued? For example, for some, more emphasis seems to be placed on the rapture...
read moreThe Diamond Doctrine: Atonement
Supplemental teaching for session Ten of Wayne Grudem’s 20 Life-Transforming Truths To understand the Bible’s teaching on atonement it may be helpful to consider a beautiful, big gemstone. One time on vacation I stood patiently in line to cast a...
read moreThe God-Man: Jesus Christ
Supplemental teaching for session Nine of Wayne Grudem’s 20 Life-Transforming Truths Q. If Jesus is, in fact, God, how could he say, “the Father is greater than I” (John 14:28)? This is a very important textual question that has an...
read moreOriginal Sin vs. Superabundant Grace
Supplemental teaching for session Eight of Wayne Grudem’s 20 Life Transforming Truths “Original sin” is actually a tricky expression but with a centuries-old history. At first blush it appears pretty simple to understand but it is technical jargon specific to...
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