By Edward P. Mason. This is a prayer of preparation for worship, reflecting on both personal witness and the worshipping body. … Read more
The Revival of Storytelling
By Fred Ash. There is a revival afoot, a return to the simplicity of storytelling by which one person sits (or stands) before a group of listeners and tells them a story — no fancy equipment, no elaborate props, no information technology, just a storyteller and her voice. … Read more
Pastoral Care as a Healing Ministry
By Elizabeth Zook. Pastoral care happens when one walks into a risky situation and then offers oneself as Christ offered himself … to hurt with those who hurt, to cry with those who cry. … Read more
Ministering to Those with Life-Threatening Diseases
By Kenneth Oakes. Do we have the answers to all this suffering? – No! But we know we have One who is forever with us, through our suffering; the Lord. Surely that is “good news” for us to share with those who are suffering with a terminal illness! … Read more
How to Help the Hurting, by Everett L. Worthington, Jr.
Reviewed by Greg Dallimore. Although we may not think of ourselves as counsellors, we are called to reflect the love and compassion of Christ, and we may be just what our friends need – a caring friend who is willing to counsel. … Read more
Marriage
By Ian Rennie. God has prepared us for marriage by creating us with gender. And He has given us instructions for successful marriage in the Bible. We need to believe God, rather than the experts. Matthew 19:1-9 is very specific about leaving our parents and becoming one with our spouse. … Read more
Healing Values of Art
By Jan Gray. In a society that is becoming more and more saturated with images of violence, hopelessness, destruction and deception, we need, more than ever, to raise up images of light and hope. The power of art to bring spiritual healing is demonstrated in the life, art, and death of Christian Baran. … Read more
A Warning And A Plea: Or, Don’t Judge Us – Pray
By Gail Reid. At the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada's yearly event for their affiliate denominations and ministry organizations in Ottawa on October 26, 2001, a workshop was held with a panel of three representatives from renewal groups in the historic mainline denominations on how people should pray for those in these churches. … Read more
Letter to the Editor
By Jeremy Ashton. I do not believe the RFPCC intends to be primarily a clergy support organization. Yet, the intellectual tone of the contents of Channels, and the somewhat ministerially specialized nature of other presentations of the Fellowship, suggest this. … Read more
Winning Through Integrity, by Cliff C. Jones
Reviewed by Jack Charleson. This book is intended to explain some of the instructions that a Christian or a Jew reads in his Bible that the test of time has proven can make the differences between failure and success in business or in any aspect of life.” … Read more
Teach us to Pray
In the Lord’s Prayer, Stephen Self examines the address (Luke 11:2, Matt. 6:9); followed by five requests: the two Thou-petitions (Luke 11:2, Matt. 6:9- 10a), the two We-petitions (Luke 11:3-4a; Matt. 6:10b-12), and the concluding request (Luke 11:4b; Matt. 6:13).. … Read more
Healing the Wounded: The Costly Love of Church Discipline, by John White and Ken Blue
Reviewed by Calvin Brown. The book emphasizes the prime importance of reconciliation as the object of church discipline, and the purity of the church as the goal of church discipline. … Read more
A Walk of Faith from the Beginning – Alpha at Knox, Georgetown
By Hank Van Goult. Putting on an Alpha Course at Knox Presbyterian Church, Georgetown, Ontario, was unexpectedly made more easy when their Interim Moderator, Dr. Douglas McQuaig, offered the resources of his church, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Streetsville, Ontario, to help them start up and run their course. … Read more
Executive Director’s Report
Calvin Brown reports on his preaching engagements, committee work, and upcoming renewal events. … Read more
Computers and Preaching
By Lincoln G. Bryant. The Lord may be able to use your church family in the training and nurturing of a student minister through the internship program. … Read more
The Current Debate (Battle for the Trinity excerpt)
By Donald Bloesch. Feminism has affected the liturgy and worship of the church, its governing bodies, its witness, its doctrine, and its sacred literature. In this book, Donald Bloesch critiques and challenges it. … 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