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The antidote to desecration
A while back the polling company Ipsos Reid asked Canadians if our country was “broken.” 70% said it was, with younger Canadians agreeing the most strongly. Whether we’re recalling the rampant drug use, increased homelessness, year-long waits for health services,…
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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…
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ContestCan you build it? Yes you can!!!!
Sometimes things go better than we could have hoped, to the point of being overwhelming. Our “Can You Build It?” contest not only proved to…
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Being the ChurchWise and Innocent
My children have often called me gullible and naïve. As a matter of fact, the word “Mom” often had an exclamation mark behind it. Perhaps…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Mar. 8, 2025
5 signs you should consider seminary Is God calling you to be a minister? Here are 5 points worth considering. While this is Westminster making…
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Christian educationHelping students overcome a fear of failure
Among the most common mental attitudes hindering the pursuit of a genuine education by young people is fear of failure. When the focus of the…
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AssortedHow to write
Everyone has at least one article in them – I’m convinced that’s true. It doesn’t matter who I’m talking to, they all have a story,…
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In a NutshellTidbits – March 2025
C.S. Lewis on the danger of indulging in “outrage porn” The term “outrage porn” was coined by a New York Times writer, Tim Kreider to…
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AssortedLife in bloom: The gift of flowers
“Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Mar. 1, 2025
Why we can’t focus (12 min) This fellow is worried that moving from a text-based culture to a video-based one is leaving us all stupider…
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EconomicsTariffs are terrible economics: why Canada shouldn’t hit back
Free trade – free of barriers and restrictions – has, traditionally, been pretty exclusive to the Right side of the political spectrum. But now, with…
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Culture ClashesHow can everyone be wrong about the world?
How well do you know what is going on in the world? Let’s put it to a test. Without consulting the internet or someone else,…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Feb. 22, 2025
My pretty pink tractor Tim Hawkins on a problem that I’m sure has happened to many a farmer. Mark Carney – the man who would…
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People we should knowChang Shen: grace to persevere
Like as the armèd knight Appointed to the field With Thy Word will I fight And faith shall be my shield. Anne Askew (1521-1546) *****…
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Being the ChurchAged saints can tell you what your peers don’t know or won’t say
In late 1785, the 26-year-old British Member of Parliament William Wilberforce secretly met with 61-year-old John Newton. Wilberforce had very recently encountered the grace of…
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Recent ArticlesA serious problem
As a mental health therapist, I once attended a workshop on developing and maintaining healthy attachments between parents and their children. The presenter’s information was…
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DatingA creative approach to boundaries in dating
Several weeks ago, my fiancé and I sat down at a local restaurant with my aunt and uncle, where we enjoyed a good meal and…
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Adult non-fictionNecessary Endings
Why did my dad’s tomatoes and cucumbers always flourish? I used to think it may have something to do with the tobacco smoke from his…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Feb. 15, 2025
Charles Darwin’s birthday was Feb. 12, so for this edition we are marking that event by featuring a collection of very different rebuttals. Click on…