Category: Recent Articles
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ParentingJ.C. Ryle on teaching our children to pray
In his book “Duties for Parents,” J.C. Ryle encourages parents to take seriously the admonishment in Proverbs 22:6 to “Train up a child in the…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Aug. 30, 2025
Great illustrations of the government’s limits Big government presumes that its bureaucracy is omnicompetent, able to manage for its citizens the job market, healthcare, education,…
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Recent ArticlesI won’t go with you: abandonment as an act of love
“You’re kicking someone out of your church?” It can be hard bringing friends into our churches – our music is slower, our benches are harder…
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PoliticsWhat if everything was about God?
It struck me, just recently, that I’ve been regularly promising to praise God’s Name “among the nations.” This pledge, to talk about God outside of…
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InternetScreen-fast strictness – how tough is tough enough?
The screen-fast sign-up form had a space for “My listed exceptions” where people could list the important but limited screen-usage that their life and job…
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Recent ArticlesPracticing the Sabbath: on living out the 4th Commandment
It is not uncommon. Under pressure at the office or on the job, at school or right at home, vacation can’t come soon enough. “Ah,”…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Aug. 23, 2025
Distinguishing between Soft and Hard Christian Nationalism Because certain Reformed folk support a form of Christian Nationalism, others will be strongly against it… but what…
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InternetLess screens = more life
What we learned by stepping away from our phones for 10 days ***** We were hoping for 200 to sign up. Turns out a lot…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Aug. 16, 2025
Life’s building blocks: everything, everywhere, all at once (1 minute) You can build some of the basic elements of a cell in a lab. But…
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Recent ArticlesThe Lifelong Battle
I hate it. I love it. I’m held in its grip. Its power’s alarming. I feel myself slip. It draws me with offers Of quiet…
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AssortedWhy I don’t have a bucket list
Admittedly, to get guilt tripped into a camping trip exposes character weakness on my part. When someone bounds up to you, excited as a kitten…
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In a NutshellTidbits – August 2025
Husbands, build up your wife R. Kent Hughes in Disciplines of a Godly Man, on Churchill at his very best: “Winston Churchill once attended a…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Aug. 9, 2025
Four guys, one piano, doing a One Direction cover The Piano Guys, getting clever… Anything can be an idol “I have worshiped an hour of…
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NewsCanada just about had a ballot as tall as you
On August 18, voters in the riding of Battle River–Crowfoot will go to the polls to elect one of the 214 candidates on the ballot….
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AssortedYea, all things
come not by chance but by His fatherly hand – Lord’s Day 10 ***** The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision…
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NewsCan you track all the ways you’re taxed?
Each year the Fraser Institute observes a “Tax Freedom Day” – this year it happened on June 8 – that tracks Canadians’ total tax burden…
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Recent ArticlesHow to stop taking the Bible for granted
“Scripture has never been easier to obtain, and Scripture has never been more difficult to absorb.” Let that sink in for a minute. I read…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Aug. 2, 2025
Josiah Queen’s Dusty Bibles As a tribute to everyone who participated in RP’s just-complete screen-fast challenge, Josiah Queen’s newest. Lunar tales: what’s going on here? Even kids…
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MusicMusic worth watching: a top 10
The only rules for how these videos were selected were that: no band could get more than one entry, and this specific song had to…
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NewsSupreme Court of Canada upholds prostitution law
In an important decision that didn’t get covered by the mainstream media this July, Canada’s highest court made a unanimous decision to uphold key parts…
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Recent ArticlesRP’s 2025 Summer Photo Contest: Double the fun; two challenges in one!
This summer we’re doubling up on our photo contest with one challenge for the adults and a completely different one for the under 18 set….
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NewsSaturday Selections – July 19, 2025
One man band This is an amazing performance – one guy sounding like a whole band – on quite the machine! “Scottie Scheffler’s take on…
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Recent ArticlesRP’s 10-day screen-fast challenge is going nationwide July 21-30
If you want to register for the July 21-30 nationwide challenge click here. If you want to learn more about why you should consider it,…
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EconomicsOn why freer trade is best
The following is based on Real Talk’s episode #126, “Mere Economics and the Issue of Tariffs,” with host Lucas Holtvlüwer talking to economics professor and…
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NewsSaturday Selections – July 12, 2025
Josiah Queen’s “A Garden in Manhattan” On the crowded streets, all the people that I see Want them to know the Jesus that I know…
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NewsAre you still able?
A nation-wide challenge to experience life without screens ***** It used to be different, not all that long ago. Carrie is a teen who always…
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NewsSaturday Selections – July 5, 2025
On boys, and not failing to launch As singer Brian Sauvé wrote of his song Old Neptune, He’s Roaring, “I wrote this… for my boys:…
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Recent ArticlesCreation stewards in a logging town
My little blue Kia Soul didn’t quite fit in, as I drove through the industrial section of the small forestry town of Houston, BC. Not…
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InternetWe took the “No Screens Challenge”
… and now we’re changing our habits ***** Do you remember the last time you were without your phone for a day? Maybe you left…
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NewsProfessing God’s Name, unashamed, at the Stanley Cup
If you’re a keen hockey fan, you probably watched the last game of the Stanley Cup Finals between the Edmonton Oilers and Florida Panthers. And…
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AssortedAm I lazy or just relaxing?
What does Proverbs say? ***** After a long and hard day at work or school, the last thing someone might want to do is more…
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AssortedOur forever home
Reflections on finding permanence from someone who has lived in 27 homes. ***** Home is Where the Heart Is. God Bless Our Home. Home Sweet…
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Entertainment“What can I do anyways?”
35 screen-alternative ideas ***** You can’t beat something with nothing (as Eph. 4:28, Matt. 12:30, and Matt. 12:43-45 make clear). That means if you want…
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AssortedSliver Mustard’s journey
Perhaps as many as a million people lived in Noah’s Grove. A thriving community, it had begun small but had grown over decades and centuries….
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Interview with an artistRachel VanEgmond is exploring God’s general revelation
Artist Rachel VanEgmond attributes her love of nature to her childhood experience of growing up on a rural property near Grimsby, Ontario. Sharing time with…
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PoliticsMan Up: ARPA leaderboards and the call to courageous action
We live in a time of deep confusion about truth, morality, identity, and even the basic purpose of life. Many young people today are unanchored,…