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More homeowners facing insolvency
Canadians have long been struggling with personal debt, but Scott Terrio, a manager at Hoyes, Michalos Licensed Insolvency Trustees told The Hub that the bigger story is who is now feeling the pinch. “The big thing we’re seeing now that…
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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…
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NewsSaturday Selections – January 23, 2021
The magical birth canal The state of things under Canadian law… How to enjoy wealth to the glory of God In 1 Tim 6:17-19, the…
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NewsSaturday Selections – January 16, 2021
Sea shanties go viral (7 min) If you have boys who think singing is girly, there’s a new viral trend of men singing manly. For…
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NewsSaturday Selections – January 9, 2021
It ain’t not possible to be more wronger For the English teachers out there… Snowflake adoption is wonderful, but it is not the solution “For…
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NewsSaturday Selections – January 2, 2021
Faster, faster! (5 min) Two friends race down a marble maze – it’s some innocent fun for the kids. These buddies also appear in “Don’t…
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News5 most overlooked article of 2020
Last week we shared our 10 most popular posts of 2020, all of which got thousands of reads. In contrast, the readership for each of our…
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NewsSaturday Selections – December 26, 2020
Do college kids know the difference between men and women? (4 min) It takes a lot of education to get things this wrong (and this…
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News2020’s Top 10 articles
It’s not surprising that three of 2020’s top articles addressed the coronavirus and governments’ responses to it. But, in a blast from the past, C.S….
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NewsSaturday Selections – December 19, 2020
Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah is not a Christmas song (1 min) Like many a pop song, the lyrics of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah are hard to decipher but…
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NewsA conversation on authority
It was the type of conversation that, in other circumstances, the two friends might have had at a quiet pub, over a couple of beers….
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NewsA great grandma 100 times over…and counting
In mid-October, 92-year-old Elizabeth Vreugdenhil got to meet her namesake Elizabeth Grim – this newborn was her 100th great-grandchild! Getting to hold her Canadian great-granddaughter was…
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NewsSaturday Selections – December 12, 2020
John Piper and Tedashii on the need for Christians to make war Not everyone will love the musical genre, but it’s a good match to…
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NewsSaturday Selections – December 5, 2020
Living clouds (5 min) How do they do it? Thousands of starlings, flying at speeds of 50 miles per hour, moving in such precision together…
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News29-year-old mom gives birth to 27-year-old baby
It’s a headline that seems better suited to National Enquirer, but it gets crazier still. The 29-year-old mother, Tina Gibson, doesn’t have just one baby…
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NewsEquality found in the Bible, not on the football field
After COVID quarantines eliminated their other kickers, the Vanderbilt Commodores football team turned to Sarah Fuller. The starting goalkeeper for the university’s women’s soccer team,…
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NewsThe Regulative Principle and church lockdowns
*** “All of Manitoba moves to CRITICAL (RED) on #restartMB pandemic response system” So declares a press statement from the Government of Manitoba. With those…
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NewsSaturday Selections – November 28, 2020
Lockdowns: if it saves one life? (3 min) It’s not simply lives vs. money. Some lives are being endangered by the lockdowns to the extent…
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NewsDutch make it easier to kill patients with advanced dementia
Like many countries around the world, the Netherlands has been imposing shutdowns to slow the spread of COVID-19, a virus that is particularly dangerous to…
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NewsSaturday Selections – November 21, 2020
Can God make a square circle? (5 minutes) Apologist Tim Barnett offers his own great answer in the video below, and if you want a…
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NewsJay Adams, father of modern biblical counseling movement, dies
Dr. Jay Edward Adams (1929-2020) died on Nov. 14 at the age of 91. For those who don’t already know his name, Adams could be…
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NewsSaturday Selections – November 14, 2020
Flash mob singing Handel’s Messiah (5-min) We’re going back ten years to one of the first flash mob performances, with a chorus of 100 surprising…
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NewsTwice a Sunday needs to happen!
“And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Nov 7, 2020
What cobras can teach us about incentives Prov. 27:14 teaches that good intentions are not enough. And yet many a government policy is implemented, not…
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NewsDutch mayor threatens church’s rented space over “conversion therapy”
Many churches around the world rent a space for their weekly worship services. But are rented spaces going to become a new front in persecution…
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NewsCalvin U’s student president is openly gay
For over 100 years, Reformed Christian parents have scrimped and saved for their children to study at Calvin College (now Calvin University), praying that these…