By Brenda Shaw. To make the Christmas story a real tangible part of our lives that we could share with our community, we realized that the "Living Nativity" and "Bethleham Walks" taking place in other towns and cities could be part of our Christmas celebration too. … Read more
Challenge of the Nineties: The Renewal of the People of God in a Postmodern World
By John Vissers. What is the nature of this postmodern world in which we are moving? How are we to understand it? What are the dynamics of the renewal of the Christian church within the context of this new world? … Read more
A Primer for Preachers, by Ian Pitt-Wilson
Reviewed by J.H. (Hans) Kouwenberg. This book’s stated intention is both to inspire beginning students of homiletics and to refresh and recharge experienced pulpiteers. … Read more
Introducing … Channels
By A. Donald MacLeod. What does the name Channels suggest to you? Television. Up-to-date methods of communication. The media. We want to be channels of renewal and encouragement. Facilitators of renewal within our denomination. We desire to strengthen the means God uses to bring that renewal to His church … Read more
Worship
By Marva Dawn. Panicking over declining numbers, many churches are seeking to attract unbelievers through worship. However, this robs God of the worship due Him, and causes Christians to reduce their evangelistic efforts. Good worship will always be evangelistic, but its purpose is to worship God. … Read more
We Are Not Alone
J. Barry Forsyth represented the Renewal Fellowship at a meeting of renewal leaders in Washington D.C. With representatives of so many organizations present, it was evident that we are not alone in the Renewal Fellowship Within The Presbyterian Church in Canada. … Read more
Prayer?
By David Mills. Just over two years ago, there was a significant number of people praying for me as I began the process of applying for, and being accepted on to, the heart transplant program at University Hospital, London, Ontario. After an initial heart attack on December 8th 1984, into emergency open heart surgery in September 1985 at Royal Jubilee Hospital, Victoria, B.C., we were told the prognosis. … Read more
Some Beginning Thoughts About the Alpha Course
By Jonathan Dent. Alpha provides a place to bring non-believing friends and non-committed churchgoers, where a foundation of Christian theology and apologetics can be reinforced or laid down for the first time, and people can ask basic spiritual questions. … Read more
1996 Annual Meeting
Photos by Jack Harewood. Many members and friends of the Renewal Fellowship met March 8 & 9, 1996, at Bridlewood Presbyterian Church in Scarborough, Ontario. Dr. John Stackhouse, from Winnipeg, was the primary speaker and is featured on the cover. … Read more
Did Jesus Christ Really Rise From the Dead?
Alan Reynolds presents evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead from the witness of history, the witness of Scripture, and the witness of His Spirit in our lives. … Read more
A Creative Way to Intercede for your Children
Esther Mcllveen and her husband wrote out separate lists of their aspirations for their three children in detail. Then they came together to share their findings, compare them, and agree upon those things they wanted to pray for. … Read more
Battle for the Trinity, by Donald Bloesch
Reviewed by Jerry & Elizabeth Zook. This is a well-placed critique of ideological feminism, which attempts to make God an imminent goddess and resymbolize the faith in current cultural dress, which erodes and devalues Trinitarianism. … Read more
The King is Coming
By Donald Rossiter. Excitement was running high as everybody prepared for the king. Somehow word got back to the people that he was returning and everybody began to get ready for the great celebration. … Read more
Living Churches: Emmanuel Church, Nottawa
Neal Mathers describes the three-year process of prayer, discussion, argument, planning and preparation that began in 1986 and transitioned three congregations into Emmanuel Presbyterian Church. They are committed to prayer and lay leadership, and have grown from 70 to 180. … Read more
Christian Ethics
By Dennis Stoutenburg. Christians should become more concerned about not just presenting the message of Jesus to a lost world but of presenting him in a manner that is practically effective and socially persuasive. Should not every investigation of sacred Scripture ring ethically and morally true? … Read more
The Church and Public Life
By Stephen Allen. The challenge for the religious community is to nurture public places of moral deliberation, but we do so in a post-modern, secular Canadian society and a society comprised of many faiths and cultures. Profound cultural shifts have taken in place in Canada in a short period of time. … Read more