By Laurie Salmon. Preventative measures are shown to be an essential part of health and wholeness in these chronicles of the life-giving experience of healthy family activity and community-building in a camping experience. … Read more
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By Ian Rennie. God has prepared us for marriage by creating us with gender. And He has given us instructions for successful marriage in the Bible. We need to believe God, rather than the experts. Matthew 19:1-9 is very specific about leaving our parents and becoming one with our spouse. … Read more
Prayer Helps to Keep the Bloom in Marriage
By Esther Mcllveen. Prayer enhances marriage tremendously. Praying together provides intimacy and affects physical, psychological and spiritual closeness. … Read more
Life Begins at Forty
By Howard Mcllveen. Women go through a mid-life phase that is inevitable. It is hormonal and chemical. The “problem” is not nearly so easy to identify or localize for men. … Read more
Encouragement – The Essence That Gives Us Buoyancy
By Esther Mcllveen. Children and adults alike blossom and grow when the atmosphere is full of encouragement — when we determine to seek to draw forth each other’s gifts and delight in them. … Read more
Daddy, I’m Pregnant, by A dad named Bill
Reviewed by Ronda Bosch. Premarital sex with someone you love is condoned by 80% of Canada’s teenagers, and on a first date 28% say yes to petting and 11% continue to sexual relations. Then what happens in your church or in your home when the word is out: “I’m pregnant”? … Read more
Celebrating Marriage Today
By Roy D. Bell. Among married couples, there are two distinct groups. In one, at best, there is hunger for what is not happening; at worst, a personal and family disaster. The other group has individuals and couples in personal difficulty but who are committed to their marriage … Read more
Preventing Divorce, by Greg and Candy McPherson, and Bobb and Cheryl Biehl
Reviewed by Kit Schindell. This book promotes communication by offering over 300 non-threatening, even fun questions for couples to ask each other … Read more
Living Churches: Nelson and Slocan
By J.H. (Hans) Kouwenberg. Under the leadership of Rev. Calvin Brown, First Presbyterian Church in Nelson, BC, has developed a thriving communal House Ministry under the direction of the Session and a guiding House Covenant. … Read more