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
Family Camping
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
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
One in Five
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!
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
This 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!
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
Review: Charles H.H. Scobie, The Ways of Our God
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
Hath God Said …?
Dr. Humphrey outlines the scriptural vision for human sexuality as a basis for her sober analysis of attempts to relativize Scripture and tradition at the point where they deal with homosexual practice as an abomination in the sight of God. She closes with reflections on a proposed rite for the blessing of same-sex unions. … Read More
How Men Really Think about Sex
A man's feelings about his sex life spills over into other important parts of his experience. Being turned down in his overture for sexual intimacy feels like rejection, comparable to the pain a woman feels when her husband won't listen to her. … Read More
Who Are We Listening To?
If The Presbyterian Church in Canada is to have any hope of resolution on the issue of homosexuality, the discussions must aim to bridge the gap between the differing approaches to Scripture, as opposed to focusing on the contrary conclusions reached by each side. … Read More
Wait Training: Building the Body of Christ
Small groups have always been used powerfully by God. He knows the power of community. And if we ourselves have enough community in our lives, there are many who need to be blessed by us. We need each other. … Read More
A Journey Towards God
The author wishes homosexuality hadn't been his struggle, but because it so deeply reveals his need, it continually calls him into a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ, not unlike the other spiritual struggles many Christians have. … Read More
The Man in Black and the Gospel of Light
Johnny Cash sings from within a fallen world, and dares the listener to look upon it honestly, with unflinching gaze. Yet, no matter how deep the darkness down into which his songs climb, there, the hope of God's grace is brighter and God's love is more real. … Read More
Review: John Stott, Same-Sex Partnerships? A Christian Perspective
This little publication is a timely help in providing its readers with the well-laid-out arguments and biblical perspective that form the basis of the position taken on same-sex partnerships by the evangelical community, amongst others. … Read More
The Renewal Fellowship Within The PCC
By Calvin Brown. The Renewal Fellowship is a volunteer organization, committed to renewing spiritual vitality and historic biblical witness within and through the church. Renewal Fellowship activities include organizing renewal conferences, days of prayer, and workshops, and publishing Channels magazine, Renewal News and a quarterly Prayer Calendar. … Read more
Looking Back Over Twenty Years of Channels
A. Donald MacLeod, the first Chair of the Renewal Fellowship Within The Presbyterian Church in Canada when it was founded in 1982, looks through the issues of Channels over those twenty years and hits some of the highlights and lowlights covered in the pages of Channels, our organization's magazine. … Read more