1985 – Channels Magazine

7. Summer 1985

THE COVER PHOTO highlights the special section in this issue on marriage – “A Wedding Album”. Photo credits: Don Wilde – cover, Photoscene (Lome F. Klassen) – p.7. Lisa Murdoch – pp. 9, 11, 15.

ARTICLES

Along the Way – J. H. (Hans) Kouwenberg
Personal Renewal: Reflections on “Brokenness” – Roberta Hestenes
Poem – Esther Mcllveen
Spiritual Parenting & the Eldership – Ian S. Rennie

SPECIAL SECTION: “A Wedding Album”

A Brother’s Impressions – Mark Dickens
The Wedding Program
“Unless the Lord Builds the House …” – J. H. (Hans) Kouwenberg
Arise, My Darling: A Song – Lynn Lane

REVIEWS

The Mystery of Marriage: As Iron Sharpens Iron, by Mike Mason – Mike Cheney
Standing on the Rock: The Importance of Biblical Inerrancy, by James Montgomery Boice – Edmund F. Bloedow

Education

Along the Way

By J. H. (Hans) Kouwenberg. Our fine concern for a professional, academic, and well-trained ministry has led us to the possibility of idolizing “professionalism”. … Read more

Personal Renewal: Reflections on “Brokenness”

By Roberta Hestenes. The theme of “brokenness” is one of the ingredients in renewal,as in David’s statement, “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite spirit you will not despise.” … Read more

Theology

Poem

By Esther Mcllveen. He peeled himself of his reputation prerogative and power descended to earth took on flesh weakness vulnerability and aloneness and man stumbled saying you don’t look like a god. … Read more

Leadership

Spiritual Parenting & the Eldership

By Ian S. Rennie. We should consider that married people as elders on sessions should operate as a husband and wife team, with all married couples having only one vote. … Read more

Family

A Brother’s Impressions

By Mark Dickens. The marriage of Mark Hayden Lane and Lynn Catherine Dickens, whose relationship was centred around their devotion to Jesus as Lord of their lives, was a wedding which whetted guests’ appetites for the marriage supper of the Lamb … Read more

Family

The Wedding Program

By Rev. J. H. (Hans) Kouwenberg. The Wedding Program for the marriage of Mark Hayden Lane and Lynn Catherine Dickens is presented as a model for all those considering marriage. … Read more

Family

“Unless the Lord Builds the House …”

By J. H. (Hans) Kouwenberg. We all need to work at our marriages and family lives every day of our lives. Thank God that He is there to sustain and help us. If He builds and we build, what a building it will be! … Read more

Family

Arise, My Darling: A Song

By Lynn Lane. The words and music of this song are adapted from the Song of Solomon and are suitable for a wedding … Read more

Family Reviews

The Mystery of Marriage: As Iron Sharpens Iron, by Mike Mason

Reviewed by Mike Cheney. This book is full of earthy, meditative, and spiritual richness which evinces in the reader the clear connection between the practical and the mystical without going to great lengths to explicitly describe that connection. … Read more

Reviews Theology

Standing on the Rock: The Importance of Biblical Inerrancy, by James Montgomery Boice

Reviewed by Edmund F. Bloedow. Is the Bible “the word of God”? Or “the words of men”? Or “the word of God and the words of men combined”? Boice sets out to champion the first of these positions, the classic evangelical doctrine, the view that was believed throughout church history … Read more

Table of Contents

6. Spring 1985

COVER ILLUSTRATION: a collage of two 16th century woodcuts: the detail of the figure of God in heaven, from a print of Luther (1525?) by Sebald Beham; the battle-scene, from a print of Judith & Holofernes (1533?) by Erhard Schon. Photo credits: M. Weale – p.2 & p.3, Kraft’s Studio – p.15.

ARTICLES

Annual Meeting Report – A. Donald McLeod
A Creative Way to Intercede for your Children – Esther Mcllveen
The Eye of the Beholder: A Brief Encounter with Violence & Pornography – Robert Campbell
The Current Debate (Battle for the Trinity excerpt) – Donald Bloesch

REVIEWS

Christian Renewal: Living Beyond Burnout, by Charles L. Rassieur – Garth B. Wilson
Battle for the Trinity, by Donald Bloesch – Jerry & Elizabeth Zook
On Being Reformed: Distinctive Characteristics and Misunderstandings, by I. John Hesselink – J. H. (Hans) Kouwenberg
Evangelicals and the Bishops’ Pastoral Letter, ed. Dean C. Curry – Mark Vander Vennen

History

Annual Meeting Report

By A. Donald McLeod. The remarkable growth of the movement in the past year was evidenced by attendees from all over Canada. British Columbia was strongly represented, and there were several from the Atlantic Provinces, including more clergy than before. A clergy conference was also held at Crieff: “Hope In Our Calling”, on the theme of burnout. … Read more

Family Prayer

1. Fall 1983 – Articles – PDF
2. Winter 1984 – Articles – PDF
3. Spring 1984 – Articles – PDF
4. Fall 1984 – Articles – PDF
5. Winter 1985 – Articles – PDF
6. Spring 1985 – Articles – PDF
7. Summer 1985 – Articles – PDF
8. Winter 1986 – Articles – PDF
9. Spring 1986 – Articles – PDF
10. Summer 1986 – Articles – PDF
11. Fall 1986 – Articles – PDF
12. Winter 1987 – Articles – PDF
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14. Summer 1987 – Articles – PDF
15. Fall 1987 – Articles – PDF
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22. Winter 1990 – Articles – PDF
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25. Winter 1991 – Articles – PDF
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28. Winter 1992 – Articles – PDF
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31. Fall 1992 – Articles – PDF
32. Spring 1993 – Articles – PDF
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34. Fall 1993 – Articles – PDF
35. Winter 1993-94 – Articles – PDF
36. Spring 1994 – Articles – PDF
37. Summer ("Spring") 1994 – Articles – PDF
38. Fall 1994 – Articles – PDF
39. Winter 1995 – Articles – PDF
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42. Winter 1996 – Articles – PDF
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44. Fall 1996 – Articles – PDF
45. Winter/Spring 1997 – Articles – PDF
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48. Spring 1998 – Articles – PDF
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50. Fall 1998/Winter 1999 – Articles – PDF
51. Spring 1999 – Articles – PDF
52. Fall 1999 – Articles – PDF
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54. Spring 2000 – Articles – PDF
55. Fall 2000 – Articles – PDF
56. Winter 2001 – History – Articles – PDF
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60. Fall 2002 – Evangelism – Articles – PDF
61. Spring 2003 – Articles – PDF
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63. Summer 2004 – Health – Articles – PDF
64. Fall/Winter 2004 – Education – Articles – PDF
65. Summer 2005 – Prayer – Articles – PDF
66. Winter 2006 – Articles – PDF