The Joy of Presbyterian Sex
By A. Donald MacLeod. A summary of a recent retrospective on the Report of the Special Committee on Sexuality of the Presbyterian Church (USA) titled Keeping Body and Soul Together, and presented to the last (203rd) General Assembly. … Read more
Culture College
By Dwight Strain. Culture College is an imaginative program that involves the maximum number of youth and the minimum financial and human resources. This Waterloo North Presbyterian Church program targets different age groups with programs such as instrumental music, wood carving, baking, cooking, and model building. … Read more
Our Mission to China
By A. Donald MacLeod. In the mid 1880s, foreign missions became a dominant concern for many young people, who volunteered to go overseas, especially to China. Jonathan Goforth founded the Canadian Presbyterian mission in Honan, north of the Yellow River in China. … Read more
Top Ten Reasons Why I Think That the New Revised Book of Praise (1997) Deserves a Place Among Your Resources for Worship
By J.H. (Hans) Kouwenberg. Several reasons commend the 1997 Book of Praise for use, including frequently sung hymns, favourite gospel songs, new praise choruses that some folk used to think weren't Presbyterian, and prayers, poems, creeds, and words of hymns without music. … Read more
Life Begins at Forty
By Howard Mcllveen. Women go through a mid-life phase that is inevitable. It is hormonal and chemical. The “problem” is not nearly so easy to identify or localize for men. … Read more
1988 Annual Meeting
By Paul Philpott. Given the pervasiveness of the leadership crisis that exists in our society today, it was encouraging to have two hundred people attend the 1988 Annual Meeting of the Renewal Fellowship which focused on the renewal of Christian leadership. … Read more
The Church and Politics
By J. Barry Forsyth. Do you think the Church should take a stand on political issues? In recent years, the World Council of Churches has been embroiled in controversy over the fact that it supported (directly or by implication) Robert Mugabe’s guerrillas of Zimbabwe against the white “racist” government of Ian Smith. Were they right or were they wrong to do that? … Read more
A “First Timer’s View” of the 1993 Assembly
By J. Kevin Livingston. May God grant us a renewal of faith, a fresh experience of the Bible as the Word of God, a sensitive memory to recover our Reformed heritage, and a passion to proclaim the Gospel. … Read more
Cultivating Religious Growth Groups, by Charles M. Olsen
Reviewed by Chuck Congram. Olsen discovered that the most dominant factor in congregations with small group ministry was the ongoing involvement of pastors. … Read more
Human Sexuality
Prepared by the Issues Committee of the Renewal Fellowship. Our culture has been in the process of throwing off the restraints of the Christian moral code, but for Christians, the written Word of God is to inform our decisions and guide our behaviour. … Read more
Impressions of the 117th General Assembly
Bob and Olive McBay reflect on the decisions and atmosphere of the General Assembly as first-time attenders. … Read more
Your Work Matters to God, by Doug Sherman and William Hendricks
Reviewed by Jack Charleson. If we start with the certainty that our work matters to God, we will be able to connect what we do all day with what we think matters to God, and we will find meaning in our work and our relationship to God. … Read more
The Renewal Fellowship and Our Theological Colleges
By Lincoln G. Bryant. At the 1986 Annual Meeting, discussion identified six areas through which members of the Renewal Fellowship Within The Presbyterian Church In Canada can work for the renewal of our theological colleges. … Read more
An Interview with David Craig
By David Craig. The original vision of the French Canadian Missionary Society, which our church inherited, was to see this mission becoming gradually in its composition, management, and support, purely and exclusively French Canadian. … Read more
The Ministry of Singles in the Local Congregation
Howard Mcllveen observes that while our culture recognizes the importance and power of singles, churches subtly discriminate against them, whereas for a thousand years or more in the past, singleness was honoured and considered superior to being married. … Read more
Renewal: When Church Growth is not Enough
By Harvie M. Conn. Reformation in the church has been reduced to the recovery of proper doctrinal formulations for use by Christians in the church, but no longer is the church at issue with community or society over worldview dimensions … Read more