Category: assorted
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AssortedRuin and restoration and our part
When the world falls into spiritual darkness and all you see around you is chaos and misery, what then? Isaiah, in chapter 24, spoke of…
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AssortedReal Talk: Recovering family worship
Below is a transcript of the episode. Please note that this transcript was automatically generated and may contain some errors. ***** Opening What if your…
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AssortedWhen there is smoke…
You think you know someone. Five years – truly, has it already been five years that we have spent morning, noon and night working side…
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AssortedThe conceited apple-branch: a Romans 12:3-8 fable?
Was Hans Christian Andersen thinking of Romans 12:3-8 when he wrote this? Perhaps not…. but he could have been. ***** It was the month of…
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AssortedA crowd can make you crazy
Crowds are scary. Many of the stupid, foolish and sinful things we do involve a crowd, even if the crowd is just one or two…
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AssortedHow to plan for your next chapter as a senior
By the year 2030, one in four Canadians will be over the age of 65. In my role as the CEO of two seniors’ living…
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AssortedThe slippery slope is real
Some weeks ago I wrote a piece about a San Francisco pastor, Fred Harrell, who had recently attacked the doctrine of penal substitutionary atonement. In…
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AssortedA theology of cleaning?
Solomon was a wise man. But as a king, he passed over some vivid illustrations in the futility chapter of Ecclesiastes. Allow me to add…
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AssortedBlessed are the caregivers
For they will be given care ***** Although we don’t get a diploma and cap, many of us graduate from the role of caregiver when…
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AssortedHow to catch Ice Age Man using digital reindeer
What would happen if we assumed ancient man was intelligent? One man did just that, and I haven’t been able to stop talking about it…
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AssortedThe definition of patience
Patience. It’s a word we would never bother looking up in the dictionary because we already understand its meaning. But sometimes a well-known word can…
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AssortedIn Christ
The antidote to works righteousness and the anxiety, exhaustion, and resentment that comes with it. ***** I used to enjoy rock climbing. At least, I…
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AssortedThat which bubbles up to the surface
The Reformed theologian R.C. Sproul, (1939-2017), is quoted as saying: “… laughter is precisely the kind of thing that will always confound scientists because it…
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AssortedBusyness in the home
If you have a family, you know that your loved ones are greatly affected by your decisions around time management – and your children are…
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AssortedBlessed are the busy?
Should we be trying to be less busy or be busy better? ***** It’s not really the worst problem to have: too many good things…
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AssortedMy journey with books
It has been a long journey of books for me. I grew up with books, and as a child read from The Book of Knowledge…
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AssortedNavigating failure
Fear of failure can paralyze you. There’s a lot to be said about how, in order to succeed, you need to be comfortable with failure…
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AssortedTaming busyness: practical tips
“If I’m caught up on my laundry, does that mean I’m not doing enough for the church?” “Am I allowed to fit in time for…
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AssortedThe evil of simplicity
If ever there was an idol thoroughly ripe and ready for a great heaving into eternal hell fire, it has to be the idol of…
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AssortedC.S. Lewis on real happiness and real Christianity
So who does not want to be happy? We all do, but wanting something is not the same as finding it. We all strive after…
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AssortedLearning
“It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees.” – Psalm 119:71 Is it possible that something bad can…
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AssortedCharlie Kirk in context
Many will condemn a man for an isolated sentence or two. Christians do it too. Instead, we should assess others just as we would like…
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AssortedWhy Charlie Kirk’s death hit so hard
For a time, in September, my Facebook feed – I’m sure yours too – was full of tributes to Charlie Kirk. At this point, I…
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AssortedDominee’s friend
There is style and there is class. Dominee may not have had much style, as the world considers style, but he had class. Dominee had…
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AssortedVeya’s story
The fight for her life in a broken and biased healthcare system – one that sees doctors perpetrating euthanasia and abortion and calling them both…
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AssortedA hill to die on
A couple of weeks ago, I attended a public lecture by Dr. Jordan Peterson at the University of Western Ontario. For those of you who don’t know,…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…