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News
Charitable giving drops as government grows…and as faith declines
As the size of government has grown, charitable giving is dropping. That common-sense finding was detailed in the study Whose Job Is It to Care for the Poor? from the Fraser Institute. It explains that government social spending has nearly…
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NewsSaturday Selections – July 31, 2021
Unequal results aren’t proof of injustice The impartiality that God calls us to is that of equal treatment (Lev. 19:15, Deut 1:16-17, James 2:1-7) not…
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NewsSaturday Selections – July 24, 2021
Was Jesus copied from an Egyptian deity? (4 min) Christians are sometimes scared to investigate the outrageous claims against the Bible that are so prevalent…
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NewsSaturday Selections – July 17, 2021
A monarch’s journey (3 min) This butterfly accomplishes its fantastic journey in not simply a matter of months, but a matter of generations – they…
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NewsSaturday Selections – July 10, 2021
Is Joe Biden Catholic? Joe Biden thinks he can be for the murder of 800,000 unborn children a year and still be a good Roman Catholic. While…
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HistoryResidential schools and the devastation of State-perpetrated family breakup
For the past several months, Canada has been convulsed by the heartbreaking rediscovery of hundreds—and likely thousands—of child graves outside residential schools where Indigenous children…
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NewsSaturday Selections – July 3, 2021
Insects flying in slow motion (6 min) Kids will enjoy this cool video of 11 different bugs taking off, some elegantly, others not so much:…
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NewsSaturday Selections – June 26, 2021
Motorcyclist who identified as a bicyclist sets cycling record (5 min) If the world insists feelings – and not the Father – defines reality, then…
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NewsSaturday Selections – June 19, 2021
Happy Father’s Day Rapper Shai Linne pointing his father to our Father. Yes, you can prove God’s existence… ….but proof doesn’t always persuade. Fatherhood as…
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NewsErin O’Toole votes against the unborn at his first opportunity
On June 2, Canada’s Parliament voted overwhelmingly to reject restrictions on the murder of unborn baby girls. More specifically, they voted, 248 to 82 against…
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NewsSaturday Selections – June 12, 2021
Ben Shapiro on Genesis 1 (6 minutes) The conservative pundit knows Hebrew but, as Todd Friel notes, he doesn’t know how to understand the creation…
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NewsSaturday Selections – June 5, 2021
When parenting gets overwhelming (3 min) In this episode of her “Pep Talks for Moms” series, author Rachel Jankovic shares what she calls “The 20-Minute…
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NewsGovernment is spending over half of what Canadian families earn
Each year the Fraser Institute, an economic think tank, calculates Canada’s “Tax Freedom Day.” If the average Canadian family’s earnings were to go just towards…
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NewsSaturday Selections – May 29, 2021
How to stop being addicted to your phone (4 min) This is a fun one to share and discuss with your kids, but that might…
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NewsSaturday Selections – May 22, 2021
When the Pilgrims first landed, how many jobs were there? And how much work? (3 min) The answer is to these two questions are, there…
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NewsSaturday Selections – May 15, 2021
I forgot my phone (2 min) Seven years old, and still worth sharing: how our phones get in the way. Looking at the RC Sproul…
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NewsSaturday Selections – May 8, 2021
Moms rock! (6 min) An ode, of sorts, to moms everywhere. <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span> My 3-year-old son…
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NewsSaturday Selections – May 1, 2021
Metamorphosis (5 min) Something new from Tim Nijenhuis based on Col. 3:1-17… Mosquitos are wonderfully and fearfully made? We might not like how they bite,…
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NewsSaturday Selections – April 24, 2021
Man describes criminal in 2021 (2 min) “In this first episode of Better Cops, a man who has just been robbed tries to describe his…
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NewsSaturday Selections – April 17, 2021
In Canada, abortion is legal for all 9 months (1 min) This is a fantastic one to copy and paste to your own social media…
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NewsSaturday Selections – April 10, 2021
Education as Warfare (1 min) While this is from a Reformed homeschooling curriculum company, the overall message applies to Christian schools of any sort. Help…
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NewsSaturday Selections – April 3, 2021
Bach, in the forest, on a really, really long xylophone (3 min) The phone this advertizes is long gone, but its commercial is standing the…
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NewsChristian college to replace plaque that calls murderers “savage”
Wheaton College, a US evangelical liberal arts college, has taken down a plaque “dedicated to the glory of God” and “in loving memory of” two…
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NewsSaturday Selections – March 27, 2021
Greg Bahnsen on presuppositional apologetics and circular reasoning (4 minutes) Lots to chew on in this short 4-minute video. While it isn’t for everyone, if…
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NewsWar on gender leaves BC father in jail
Once upon a time, there was a little girl. She had a mommy and a daddy who unfortunately divorced. She lived with her mom, but…
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NewsDoes Canada’s Bill C-7 ignore a dark lesson from history?
Lebensunwertes leben is German for “life unworthy of life.” As a justification for killing, this idea led to the Holocaust. Alarmingly, there is growing acceptance in…
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NewsSaturday Selections – March 20, 2021
Gospel patrons: equipping others to spread God’s name (7 minutes) Is being a minister or missionary the only way to do God’s work? We know…
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NewsSaturday Selections – March 13, 2021
Our weird and wonderful brain (4 min) This is what Paul means when he says in Romans 1:20, that God’s power and divinity are clearly…
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NewsSaturday Selections – March 6, 2021
Tim Challies on 10 books every Christian should read Challies is a Reformed baptist so it isn’t surprising that Reformed baptists Charles Spurgeon, John MacArthur,…
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NewsSaturday Selections – February 27, 2021
Actors react to facts about the “wage gap” (3 min) These actors were asked to give a “cold read” – they hadn’t previously had a…
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NewsUK hospital to get more “gender inclusive”
Pop quiz: if you heard that a hospital was offering “gender inclusion” mid-wifery, what would you expect that to involve? The problem here has to…
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NewsWhen Big Tech comes after anyone
In early January, when Facebook and Twitter suspended Donald Trump’s accounts it might not have worried most Christians. Yes, these “Big Tech” companies has just…
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NewsSaturday Selections – February 20, 2021
Organ harvesting and more in China (7 min) What China is doing in its various prisons and “re-education” camps is slowly coming out. But why…
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Culture ClashesThe Great Reset: don’t let a crisis go to waste
Over the past several months, the phrase The Great Reset has swirled around media headlines and social media. Many Christians are asking, should we support…
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NewsSaturday Selections – February 13, 2021
Who was Saint Valentine? The ads might make this day seem to be mostly about earthly love, but the fellow it is named after gained…
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NewsSaturday Selections – February 6, 2021
The jewels of winter (6 minutes) You might sort-of know how snowflakes are made, but how they are actually made is more amazing than you knew!…
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NewsSaturday Selections – January 30, 2021
Should we erase income inequality? (5 minutes) Abraham was rich and Solomon too. So how should we respond when we’re “in a conversation and someone…