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1990
Worship Workshop: Family Worship
P. Gordon Reid recounts memories of family worship each morning as a reminder that it worked strongly to shape attitudes, convictions, and the deepest parts of his family’s faith. … Read more
The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man, by Abraham Heschel
Reviewed by J.H. (Hans) Kouwenberg. Heschel’s concept of spirituality and of the holiness of the sabbath day is a broad, open-ended one, parallelling Christ’s view of the sabbath. It is not merely a day of abstention but of affirmation. … Read more
Preaching, by Fred B. Craddock
Reviewed by J.H. (Hans) Kouwenberg. Craddock is one of those in the school of preaching who pays as much attention to those who listen to preaching as to the liturgical reading and interpreting of Scripture. … Read more
22. Winter 1990
COVER PHOTO: New full time director of the Renewal Fellowship: The Rev. Bob Little.
ARTICLES
REVIEWS
Full Time Director
By David MacKenna. The Renewal Fellowship will have, for the first time, a full time Director, The Rev. Robert Little, to speak for and guide the affairs of the Fellowship, building on the dedicated and able leadership of Drs. A. Donald MacLeod and John Vissers as interim directors for the past eight years. … Read more
I Have a Conviction
By Bob Little. My vision is that lay people and pastors will rise up, leave the hostage situation of our comfortable ecclesiastical enclaves and spread out across our communities, in a new freedom, to show the beauty and favour of our saving Lord. … Read more
Building Relationships
By David Sherbino. The neighborhood bar is possibly the best counterfeit there is to the fellowship Christ wants to give his church because God has put into the human heart the desire to know and be known, and to love and be loved … Read more
Christian Ethics
By Dennis Stoutenburg. Christians should become more concerned about not just presenting the message of Jesus to a lost world but of presenting him in a manner that is practically effective and socially persuasive. Should not every investigation of sacred Scripture ring ethically and morally true? … Read more
Is Christ the Only Way?
By Clark H. Pinnock. The ideology of pluralism fills the air of Western culture and puts tremendous pressure on Christian claims surrounding the uniqueness of Christ. This ideology stems from secular humanism … Read more
Unity in the Body
By Jack Charleson. As Christians we have a responsibility to honour the command given by our Lord in the Great Commission. However, there is a tendency for many of us simply to ensure adequate funding is made available through congregational budgets to meet the expenses of others as they seek to carry out the work for us. … Read more
The New Year
Joanna M. Weston is a poet from Duncan, B.C. Her poem appears here.
Against the Night, by Charles Colson
Reviewed by Roma E. Bryant. Even though the church today is shot through with individualism that cripples its witness and is made up of sinners, it is the one institution that has the capability to challenge culture by bearing witness to God’s standards of justice and righteousness. … Read more
Answering God, by Eugene H. Peterson
Reviewed by J.H. (Hans) Kouwenberg. The subtitle of the book is “the Psalms as Tools for Prayer”. It is one man’s journey through the Psalms with a deliberate attempt to see what might resonate and echo, “deep unto deep,” soul unto soul, person unto God. … Read more
Prayer, by Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Reviewed by J.H. (Hans) Kouwenberg. This may be a theological book but it is theology as poetry, theology as a way of understanding the language of the Scriptures as much as the doctrine of the Scriptures. … Read more