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Internet
Technology and our anxious hearts
As a pastor I get to talk to lots of people. After some conversation, I start to get a sense of where people stand. How are they doing? What’s on their mind? Anything bothering them? And maybe it won’t surprise…
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Christian education – SportsA Good Coach is Crucial: the potential and danger of school sport teams
“They’re nice, but not a priority.” Ask Reformed parents about our school’s sports teams and that’s a response you might hear. It’s an understandable answer….
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Recent ArticlesReal Talk: Farming, food, & worldview
This episode can also be found on your favorite podcast platform: Spotify, Apple, Podbean, Amazon Music or on our website. Be sure to subscribe to…
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Culture ClashesGod, non-God & the myth of neutrality
The subtle myth of neutrality! It works something like this: Christians believe that God exists, right? Unbelievers, on the other hand, believe that God doesn’t…
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Parenting“When you coming home, dad?”
Cat’s in the Cradle was once described by the artist’s brother as the song that “…put more fathers ill at ease than any other song…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Sept 12, 2026
C.S. Lewis, Donall and Conall, Richard Dawkins, and bulverism “Oh, you just want to control women’s bodies.” It’s a standard insult in the abortion debate,…
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EntertainmentMr. Bennet’s dad jokes are too much
Dads like to be funny, and there’s no question about it but that Mr. Bennet – from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice – is a…
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Interview with an artistStephanie Sikma is printing Hamilton
I’ve always thought printmaking was a fascinating form of art – first carving your design into wood or lino, and then pressing that inked design…
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AssortedThe 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…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Sept 5, 2026
Lost and Found with Running Home Another toe-tapper, this one based on Psalm 51. A quick guide for social media in marriage The opening story…
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MagazineSeptember/October 2026 issue
This edition is all about celebrating 25 (more or less) issues of Come & Explore! Inside you’ll find 10 pages worth of activities and puzzles…
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AssortedEffective giving
By worldly and historical standards, Canadians are incredibly wealthy, with much more than we need for our daily living. And Canadian Christians are generous givers…
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AssortedWhich bits of the Bible would you walk around with?
The end of the movie Fahrenheit 451 closes with a curious scene. Due to a governmental decision to eliminate all books, the only way any…
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ParentingMatrescence: the process of becoming a mother
I was deeply ashamed. “I just want to go back to before,” I said to my husband, burying my face in his shoulder. I’d been…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Aug 29, 2026
More unintended consequences We need government because we needs laws, and the administrators of it. But law is a blunt instrument, inflexible, applying to all,…
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People we should knowJonathan Edwards: The pastor who packed them in the pews while preaching the wrath of God
Much like today, during the early colonial years in America, preachers rarely spoke about the wrath of God – this did not seem the type…
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Being the ChurchBeloved care
Even today, the Dutch immigrant work ethic and zeal for kingdom-building remains alive in southern Alberta, three generations after a wave of immigrants first settled…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Aug 22, 2026
Why can Modern Art be so ugly? If you tell me that Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring is your favorite painting, and I…
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News17 Alberta babies survived an abortion and were left to die
Richard Dur, the Executive Director of Prolife Alberta, writing in The Western Standard, shared this grim statistic: “Seventeen babies were born alive in Alberta following…
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ContestsScreen-fast 2026: How’d we all do?
Last year’s screen-fast set the bar pretty high with over 900 people signing up to participate. This year, nearly 800 of you decided to once…
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ParentingTeaching small fries to take notes, sing psalms, and speak to God
When your child is old enough to write… When your child learns to write he is ready to begin taking sermon notes. Say, what? Let’s…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Aug 15, 2026
You need to be bored (6 minutes) A psychologist did experiments where people had to sit in a room for 15 minutes with nothing to…
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ParentingThe Pity Party Pit and how to get out of it
Homemaking and motherhood are hard. There are days and even seasons when the monotony can feel palpable as we change one more diaper, wash one…
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ParentingThe Golden Rule: the biblical response to self-pity
Sin is devastating. An eight-year-old tries to be kind to his older sister. She responds with, “That was stupid!” Michael is crushed. He tried so…
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Economics – Home FinancesBeware the new thieves
Gerry lost his dear wife Margaret in 2020, after nearly forty years of marriage. He never thought that he would be the lonely type, but…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Aug 8, 2026
Lost and Found with Running Home Another toe-tapper, this one based on Psalm 51. In praise of godly mother-in-laws “My mother-in-law is one of my…
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PornographyPorn addiction isn’t just a guy thing
“… but you’re a girl!?” If I had a dollar for every time I heard that given the context that is about to follow, I’d…
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NewsSophie Cunningham is tearing down transgender lies, but only God’s people can offer up His Truth
Indiana Fever’s Sophie Cunningham is a WNBA player – she plays basketball for a living – but it isn’t her skill on the court that’s…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Aug 1, 2026
Here I am Three gents, singing up storm, with lyrics based on Genesis 22:10-13 – this is a foot-stomping hand-clapping delight! The delightful duty of…
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ContestsThoughts from tulips to TULIP: My journey into the Reformed faith and translation
One morning in early April 2025, I am sitting on our back deck, holding a cup of coffee and enjoying the quiet stillness of the…
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PoliticsPerhaps you should run
Every four years, for a brief season, nomination papers open and the question becomes concrete: who will step forward to govern our towns and cities?…
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Recent ArticlesMay I judge?
I hear repeatedly that we’re not supposed to judge another. Young people express themselves this way, and that’s not surprising – after all, not judging…
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ContestsMade new
Josh Schouwstra’s “Made New” is about the quiet witness of the Christian life, and how God can use that quiet witness to chip away at…
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NewsLiberal party support highest among boomers
More than any other age group, boomers overwhelmingly support the Liberal Party. A July 2026 poll conducted by Abacus Data asked 4,200 Canadian adults which…
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NewsSaturday Selections – July 25, 2026
Beethoven’s wig is very big (Symphony #5) Our school’s music teacher had my youngest listening to selections from a Beethoven’s Wig, a clever musical group…
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PoliticsShould Alberta Separate? Why one Christian decided to vote no
“Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it’s doing in the…
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In a NutshellTidbits – July 2026
How he learned he needed to preach Mark 2:28 Some years ago, on an early Sunday morning, a young Dutch pastor faced a quandary. A…