Category: Recent Articles
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InternetHow to stay sane in an overstimulated age
Reconnect information and action ***** In today’s hyperconnected world, information comes at us fast and furious, from every direction, 24-7. We wake up to news…
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Recent ArticlesThe Way
Jesus told his disciples, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6)…
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Being the ChurchChristians don’t pray
Who says that Christians don’t pray? Of course, Christians pray, don’t they? Isn’t prayer one of the essential characteristics of Christian life? Every time the…
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InternetHow to use AI like a Christian boss
Imagine you’re the boss of your own company. After months of searching, you’ve just landed the most brilliant assistant in the country. He’s lightning-fast, top…
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AssortedFun is something you make
11 tips for family road trips ***** “Bored” is a curse word in our house. Say that word, and my mom is liable to wash…
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Pro-life – EuthanasiaOntario shows why euthanasia “safeguards” can’t work
A lengthy article in the Winter 2025 edition of The New Atlantis, titled “A Pattern of Noncompliance,” shows how Ontario isn’t strictly enforcing its euthanasia…
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In a NutshellTidbits – June 2025
A one-question test During an episode of the TV drama West Wing, the President of the United States has to figure out whether a boatload…
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AssortedOur family’s trip to the Ark
Ken Ham’s creationist organization Answers in Genesis has built a life-size replica of Noah’s Ark in the State of Kentucky. These Christians are proudly leading…
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Culture ClashesGet out of the game
Christians need to steer clear of sports gambling ***** When I was a kid, I remember my aunt asking, whenever we were traveling somewhere, “Are…
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NewsSaturday Selections – May 24, 2025
Whiter than snow – Jimmy Clifton and Haddon Some high-energy Christian folk coming at you. Kevin DeYoung on why struggling with difficult doctrines is good…
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NewsWhat if we said what we mean? – political party edition
Another election campaign has come and gone, and one of the bigger disappointments might simply be, did anyone defend anything that really mattered? The Conservatives…
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Apologetics 101Forewarned is forearmed: Seeing through 5 common logical fallacies
“I have no other but a woman’s reason; I think him so, because I think him so. That’s Shakespeare poking fun at the irrationality of…
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Amazing stories from times pastOn conmen and other masters of deceit
God made man upright, but they have sought out many devices (Eccl. 7:29) There are vagabonds and there are villains; there are crooks and there…
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InternetIs TikTok the ultimate contraception?
The social media app that’s convincing youth that babies are boring, and other such lies. ***** A hundred years before the invention of the television,…
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In a NutshellTidbits – May 2025
Joke o’ the month Two cars were waiting at a stoplight. When the light turned green, the man in front didn’t seem to notice. The…
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NewsSaturday Selections – May 17, 2025
Micah Tyler’s “Praise The Lord” It ain’t always easy following God, but His goodness is certain. The daily battleground we often ignore in our therapy…
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Assorted“It’s only a dollar!” – on bingos and raffles
Some churches hold bingos and sell raffle tickets, so can gambling really be wrong? ***** “I think we should have a bingo night to raise…
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Recent ArticlesCelebrating the Sabbath
“Many people see the Sabbath or the Lord’s Day, as an infringement of their personal liberty – a day that God has taken from them,…
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Recent ArticlesWill animals go to Heaven?
What happens when animals die? The question of whether animals exist in heaven has been debated for centuries. Do people share the same spirit and…
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NewsSaturday Selections – May 10, 2025
Gray Havens’ Ghost of a King A lyric video seems a good idea for this, one of their harder-to-understand songs. A little mystery then, accompanied…
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PoliticsWho is Mark Carney?
After winning the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada, and then leading his party to victory in April’s federal election, Mark Carney has become…
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NewsSaturday Selections – May 3, 2025
Be Present Reformed rapper Propaganda with a message that’ll hit everyone hard: “I guess you could say I’ve been through a divorce now – me…
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EconomicsWork is Worship
Done right, it is an expression of God’s character and beauty **** There we sat under the starry skies, talking faith, family, fun and business….
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Interview with an artistRuth de Vos is quilting kids and creation
Textile art is perhaps not the typical career choice for someone with both science and engineering degrees, but Australian artist Ruth de Vos says there…
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NewsSaturday Selections – April 26, 2025
Christianity & global warming (10 min) Some Christians think global warming is a scientific, and not a theological, question. To that, Jeff Durbin replies: “I’ll…
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AssortedIf businesses tithed
Christians are familiar with the Biblical principle of tithing, and support many kingdom causes as a matter of course. They apply the principles of Galatians…
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ParentingA word for a new mother…as given at her first baby shower
I feel singularly ill-equipped to offer an exhortation on motherhood at a baby shower to anyone, but especially to you Victoria, for a couple of…
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PornographyHow to lock your phone from pornography… 101
A taste of Into the Light Ministries’ TechSafe series ***** “Always lock the doors.” As a boy, this teaching served me well. We lived in…
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NewsSaturday Selections – April 19, 2025
Embrace reality – brought to you by the letter f This is both fantastic – encouraging a farm hand to embrace reality over his feelings…
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AssortedLittle Free Libraries can be a big deal
If you have a (too) well-stocked home library of good Christian books, but you still want to keep stocking it, start passing along your already-read…
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Being the ChurchGod loves a cheerful giver
6 ways to restore the joy of giving ***** In one sense, the most faithful givers during the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ were the…
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NewsMillions distributed to Canada’s legacy media during election campaign
While the media was covering the federal election, the newly formed Canadian Journalism Collective (CJC) started its first handouts of cash from the enormous pot…
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NewsSaturday Selections – April 12, 2025
The Gray Haven’s High Enough (4 min) The first story, history, told with tempo, beauty too – something special that’ll have even rap and poetry…
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Economics – Home Finances5 things I’d like my kids to learn about money
The saver, the spender, the schemer – as my kids get older, it’s interesting to see their “money personalities” develop. In the area of money,…
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NewsSaturday Selections – April 5, 2025
Click on the titles to go to the linked articles. Broken Window Fallacy explains what government gets wrong Politicians can always point to the results…
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AssortedWrite down your story
Sharing your history is sharing His story …things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us. We will not hide them…