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2004
Editorial – Education Edition
By Calvin Brown – The Presbyterian approach to education has led to the creation of the worldview that now governs civilization. The danger of glorying in education, however, is that like all creations it can easily be changed from a gift of God to a form of idolatry. … Read more
College Leaders Respond to Some Questions
The questions are about the most important thing that graduates will take away with them, how colleges are addressing the matter of the church in decline, assumptions about the level of Christian formation that entering students have, the biggest challenge facing the colleges, and new initiatives at the colleges. … Read more
The Discipleship Project
By Doug Schonberg and David Moody. The Discipleship Project is a tool for stimulating, promoting and measuring adult spiritual education, based on the assumption that even a 10% increase in serious, intentional adult spiritual growth can offset operating deficits and increase volunteerism for children and youth ministries. … Read more
The Elders’ Institute
By Mary Rogers. The Elders' Institute was founded to provoke Canadian Presbyterian elders and other leaders to lead the church into more faithful, effective, and wise ministry and mission, using both online distance education and face-to-face "On the Road" events. … Read more
A Life Worth Living
by John Bigham. A ready-made follow-up for the enlivened faith and enthusiasm generated by an Alpha Course takes the form of the Beta course, A Life Worth Living, a nine-week look at Paul's letter to the Philippians, in the format of the Alpha course. … Read more
Are You Getting Your Daily Bread?
By Elizabeth Birnie. Scripture Union provides daily spiritual nourishment in its pocket-sized quarterly publication, Daily Bread. Its pattern of Bible exploration is prepare, read, explore, and respond. … Read more
63. Summer 2004 – Health
COVER PHOTO: A close-up shot of a fountain, with water running strong, clear and cool. Owen Hayes, Vancouver.
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REVIEW
Family Camping
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
Purposeful Suffering
By Bryn MacPhail. Why does God allow suffering? Our heavenly Father, who is all-powerful, all-wise, and all-loving, has a plan when He allows His children to suffer. When we confess that God is sovereign, we confess that He is sovereign over everything — even suffering. And this is a good thing. … Read more
Annual Meeting Photo Essay
The AGM was held at Grace Presbyterian Church, West Hill Ontario on March 5 and 6. Darrell Johnson, Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology at Regent College, Vancouver spoke on the theme “Reformed Spirituality: Renewed by Word and Spirit”. … Read more
One in Five
By Marian Archibald. Almost one in five children and youth in Ontario has a diagnosable mental health disorder. Church members who are uncomfortable with people who are different need to seek more compassion and understanding of those who suffer mental challenges. … Read more
Rescue Us!
By Darrell Johnson. In the sixth petition of the Lord's Prayer, the Greek word translated "temptation" can mean "test" or "enticement to sin". While God never entices us to sin, the evil one can turn a test, designed to prove and improve a person's character, into a temptation. … Read more
Maria’s Legacy
Esther McIlveen’s nostalgic article reminds us how the example of a godly parent is an ongoing encouragement to live wholesomely in challenging circumstances. … Read more
Celebrate Recovery!
By Scott Donaldson and Heather Parker. Celebrate Recovery, a twelve-step, biblically-based recovery program which focuses on principles from the Beatitudes, is a proven ministry which began at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California. This is the account of work at Lakeshore St. Andrew's Church near Windsor, Ontario. … Read more
The Ways of Our God: An Approach to Biblical Theology, by Charles H.H. Scobie
Reviewed by Calvin Brown. This is a major work which reflects a lifetime of both scholarly and devotional interaction with Scripture. Encyclopedic in scope, it deals not only with the history and methodology of biblical theology but with the flow of salvation history. … Read more