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Letter Writing
“Did God answer her prayer?”
To my dear niece and namesake: First of all, thanks for your letter. It’s great to hear from a niece. The pages you wrote were so full of news, so full of thoughts that I am not privy to as…
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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?
A hundred years before the invention of the television, Danish theologian and philosopher Søren Kierkegaard wrote: “Suppose someone invented an instrument, a convenient little talking…
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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
“I think we should have a bingo night to raise money for our community.” “All you spend is $1.00 on a ticket and you could…
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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
**** There we sat under the starry skies, talking faith, family, fun and business. A familiar space. Like many of you, I get to enjoy…
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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
“Always lock the doors.” As a boy, this teaching served me well. We lived in a place with frequent break-ins, so the danger was real…
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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
In one sense, the most faithful givers during the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ were the Pharisees, as He Himself said: “you Pharisees… tithe mint…
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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…
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Being the ChurchA principled (and practical) guide to tithing
Twice every Sunday the offering plate comes your way. What do you do? Do you chip in whatever you have in your wallet, do you…
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In a NutshellTidbits – April 2025
Trying to have your cake and eat it too A carving on a Cambodian temple built around 800 years ago seems to depict a stegosaurus….
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InternetWill AI replace reading?
Many new technologies are sold with the promise of freeing people from menial tasks. Dishwashers, dryers, tractors, and word processors are just a few of…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Mar. 29, 2025
Propaganda techniques (10 minutes) This 1948 or 1949 movie highlights seven different propaganda techniques, and to be forewarned about them is to be forearmed. This…
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AssortedDon’t follow your heart
Making the happiness crisis in America even worse, especially for young people, are completely wrong diagnoses. What’s needed to increase happiness is not more money,…
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Recent ArticlesThe “Watchmaker argument”
Two hundred years ago a bishop, by the name of William Paley, wrote a book in which he used a watch to illustrate how clear…
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People we should knowWibrandis Rosenblatt: “Bride of the Reformation”
I can vividly recall how, as a child, I visited people with my father. In Holland I would ride in front of him as he…
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EvangelismBeing ready to witness
Our Lord calls us to share the gospel but often we wonder how, when, or if we might be able to witness to others about…
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Pro-life – AdoptionConsidering adoption
God is concerned about orphans (Ex. 22:22, Deut. 14:29, Ps. 10:14,18, Ps. 68:5, Ps. 146:9, Prov. 23:10) and He wants us to care about them…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Mar. 15, 2025
House of David show is making things up Wretched TV’s Todd Friel doesn’t hold back on Amazon’s new biblically-based series about King David. His arguments…
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Being the ChurchBeing thrifty and finding hope
In his “science of happiness” class at Harvard Business School, Arthur Brooks teaches that of the five things you can do with money, four could…