Reviewed by Roma E. Bryant. Nobody can solve your problems. That’s a process you must initiate and follow through with. Thankfully none of us walks alone. The indwelling Christ is eagerly willing to walk with us each step of the way. … Read more
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Imagine
By Edward P. Mason. Imagine what would happen to our whole being if we sought to become excited about being a Christian, and about our faith. We are blessed with the inward presence of the Holy Spirit, that great Comforter, Helper, and Revealer of all spiritual truth. Isn’t that exciting? … Read more
Translators Needed
By Todd Lee. As a community of people, we are doing far less than we are able in translating God’s love into the things that we do or say when we are at crossroads with our fellow travellers on Planet Earth. Words of love are hollow if they are not associated with acts of love. … Read more
Who is the Weaker Brother, Anyway?
By Kevin Quast. Paul has something to say to all of us who operate with special criteria in our mind of what is right and what is wrong – especially if we are inclined to form opinions about others based on our own personal criteria. … Read more
The New Year
Joanna M. Weston is a poet from Duncan, B.C. Her poem appears here.
Letter to the Editor
By Jeremy Ashton. I do not believe the RFPCC intends to be primarily a clergy support organization. Yet, the intellectual tone of the contents of Channels, and the somewhat ministerially specialized nature of other presentations of the Fellowship, suggest this. … Read more
Bible Study Opportunities For Adults
By John E. Schwarz. “It is unnecessary to furnish proof that there exists even among Christians a widespread biblical illiteracy … Protestantism will not forever survive if steps cannot be taken to remedy it.” – John Bright … Read more
The Family: Marbles or Miracles
By David Mills. In a world that is dying of despair, loneliness and depression, people want reality in their lives. They are looking for people with a simple, different, loving lifestyle based and built on the pattern of the love of Jesus Christ. … Read more
Can Spiritual Maturity Be Taught?
By Roberta Hestenes. Who leads the church in developing spiritual maturity? Presumably the pastor. And where does the pastor learn it? The churches figured it was taught at seminary; the seminaries assumed it was caught at church. … Read more
More Than Coping, by Elizabeth Skoglund
Reviewed by Roma E. Bryant. This book helps us to realize that during suffering, we can cope, and that those we think of as giants of the faith still struggled as we do through terrible odds, and still coped. … Read more
Your Work Matters to God, by Doug Sherman and William Hendricks
Reviewed by Jack Charleson. If we start with the certainty that our work matters to God, we will be able to connect what we do all day with what we think matters to God, and we will find meaning in our work and our relationship to God. … Read more
We Meet In the Garden
By Kathleen Larmour. At 33,1 am broken
So wearied by my flesh
That imagined vitality
Cannot raise its head
From within a cluttered mind. … Read more
Advent: Giving, Fasting, Praying while you wait . . .
By Martha G. Zimmerman. Regularly, by our actions, we tell our children what we think is important. We are living proof of what our hearts desire. There is no better example of this than in our celebrations. Our actions speak so loudly we can easily make it difficult for our children to hear what we are saying. What do you really believe about Christmas? Based on what you believe are you willing … Read more
Sing Out the Carols – People Will Love It!
By Esther and Howard Mcllveen. Carolling isn’t as popular as it once was, so people treasure it even more. It can be done in shopping malls, hospitals, prisons, institutions for the aged and handicapped, or in the open air around residential areas. Advent is the only time in the year when it is culturally acceptable to “invade” a neighbourhood or place with song and greetings. One can sing about “God and sinners reconciled” and greet people without intruding or being mistaken for a sect. … Read more
Strength
By Bill Steele. Lord make me strong as steel spiritually and morally in a muddy swampy world. Lord make me mellow as the melody of a holy Hebrew psalm sung by sinners saved by your mercy. Lord make me faithful as a follower of You Father Yahweh Who will be Who You are. Lord make me gentle as the growing grass stretching sunward. Lord make me wholly human as the Holy Human God the Son. … Read more
Tears – A gift for the Church?
By Esther Mcllveen. If God thinks our tears are significant enough to bottle them and holds them in such high regard, we in the church should ask for the gift of tears. We may find ourselves weeping over our city – as Jesus wept over Jerusalem – due to the host of ills which exist. … Read more
Citizens of Another Kingdom: Living Now for the World to Come, by John E. Balchin
Reviewed by Greg Dallimore. The church has a message for the world and a ministry to it only when she is significantly different from the world. … Read more