By Edward P. Mason. This is a prayer of preparation for worship, reflecting on both personal witness and the worshipping body. … Read more
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1992
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
Living Churches: A Hope of Life and Growth
By George Anderson. “God specializes in graveyards.” This little church which had no Sunday School or Bible study groups and had about twenty adults attending seemed like a valley of dry bones. Humanly speaking the answer seemed to be “No” but the Spirit of Life, the Spirit of Jesus said “Yes.” … Read more
Helping the Lonely
By W. Stanford Reid. We as Christians can reach out to those who know not the Christian faith and through our care, interest those not Christians, in our faith. We can also reach out to our fellow Christians to help them in their loneliness. … Read more
Trojan Horse, by Donald L. Faris
Reviewed by Howard Mcllveen. The book pictures the homosexual ideology as the hidden enemy which when released from the horse will capture and fundamentally change the unsuspecting city/church. … Read more
Living with Dying, by George Lea Harper, Jr.
Reviewed by Kit Schindell. Living with Dying is a book for a person who is living with dying. In one sense it is for all of us, as each of us will face death sooner or later. But some of us have a clearer indication of the span of their life. … Read more
Up Against It, by James Philip
Reviewed by John Vaudry. A most perceptive and helpful book on dealing with spiritual depression, bitterness of soul, discouragement, doubt, and disappointment with God, bringing out the way the Word of God speaks to each situation. … Read more
Learning to Worship as a Way of Life, by Graham Kendrick
Reviewed by Nancy Bettridge. Renewal in worship is a gradual process, and the book gives several suggestions for change that an individual worshipper can make, and focusses on corporate changes in worship. … Read more
29. Spring 1992
COVER PHOTO: Dr. Nigel Cameron was the featured Annual Meeting speaker. Photo: Jack Harewood
ARTICLES
From Vision to Reality: Leadership is the Key
By Neal Mathers – We don’t often talk about it but he truth is that leadership has often been identified as the key factor in developing a healthy growing church. If the minister, elders and congregational leaders do not take the lead in developing goals and strategies for church growth then the congregation will reflect this non-growth mentality. … Read more
New Life in the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan
By Ted Ellis — “Don’t call it ‘renewal’, call it ‘new life’. It is the most wide-spread movement in the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan (PCT).” Pastor Tan Sin-chhiong from the East Coast is not given to over-statement, but this is how he describes what is now known as “The New Life movement” in the PCT. He sees the PCT as old and creaky in places “but God is working to wake us up.” … Read more
1992 Annual Meeting
On March 6 and 7, many Presbyterians concerned about renewal, met at Willowdale Church in Toronto for the Annual Meeting. Photos by Jack Harewood … Read more
Covenanting Liturgy
By Calvin Brown. This Covenanting Liturgy is based on Hebrews 11 and the Covenanting Prayer. It should be read with enthusiasm, feeling and growing intensity. The sense is that as we help one another remember the faithfulness of God exhibited among his people we more and more identify with them until we become one with them in Spirit and are willing also to make gladly the commitment that they did. … Read more
Lay People: Sparkplugs for Renewal
By Harold Cumming — A new job, a new town, now to find a new church! Canadians are great movers, and at one stage of our lives my wife and I found ourselves in a typical Canadian situation. But moving has its down side as well as its excitement and anticipations. In moving to our new town, we were leaving behind a church that we loved. … Read more
Conquering Fear
By Edward P. Mason — FEAR! That is a word which conjures up events or incidents in life which are gladly and hopefully forgotten during one’s life-time. Of course, some fearful long-past event is remembered, still causing feelings of fear and anxiety. The word “fear” itself denotes “sudden calamity” or “danger.” It involves the emotions of pain or … Read more
Novelists, Pastors and Poets
By Eugene H. Peterson — Anyone of us, waking up in the morning and finding ourselves included in that part of the creation called human, sooner or later finds ourself dealing with language, with words. We are the only creatures in this incredible, vast creation doing this. Language is unique to us human beings. Turnips complete a fairly complex and useful life cycle … Read more
