COVER PHOTO: A close-up shot of a fountain, with water running strong, clear and cool. Owen Hayes, Vancouver.
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June 2004
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