By W. Stanford Reid. By 2000 55% of the world’s population will be living in cities and by 2050 that will increase to 80%. Churches in our land which are seeking to do missionary work in foreign lands must lay increasing emphasis upon urban mission at all levels. … Read more
Living Churches: Nelson and Slocan
By J.H. (Hans) Kouwenberg. Under the leadership of Rev. Calvin Brown, First Presbyterian Church in Nelson, BC, has developed a thriving communal House Ministry under the direction of the Session and a guiding House Covenant. … Read more
Wait Training: Building the Body of Christ
By Chris Yue. 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
Paradigm Shifts or Sinking Sand: A reflection on the 119th General Assembly
By Robert Bettridge. If we are to be effective for the Kingdom of God we are going to have to make changes, but let those changes be directed by the Lordship of Jesus Christ, by the power of his Holy Spirit and in obedience to the Father’s will as revealed in Scripture. … Read more
1997 Annual Meeting
Photos by Jack Harewood. The Annual Meeting was held in Knox Church (Spadina) in Toronto to worship God, encourage one another and hear Dr. Brad Long speak of renewal. The cover of this issue shows detail of the front of Knox Church (Spadina) … Read more
Pastors at Prayer
By Robert L. Allison. God obviously blesses when his people lose the pernicious sense of competitiveness and begin to see each other as brothers and sisters in ministry. So we pray fervently for one another across denominational lines. … Read more
Learn to Discern, by R.G. De Moss, Jr.
Reviewed by Jim Walton. De Moss’s goal is to teach parents how they may help their children to develop a critical, Christian mind that is able to sift through the mixed messages given by the seductive and influential power of the television, movie, advertising, and music industries. … Read more
Financial Update
The current financial status to the end of April 1994 is presented by Treasurer Jim Doherty. … Read more
In Love With God – Coquitlam Presbyterian Church
By Bob and Olive McBay. A closer walk with the Lord is encouraged at CPC by a growing emphasis on prayer, Bible Study groups, men's and women's ministries, outreach to children and youth, care of newcomers, reminders of the monthly Renewal Fellowship prayer meetings, Spirit-led sermons, and making Jesus the centre of everything. … Read more
The Mystery of Marriage: As Iron Sharpens Iron, by Mike Mason
Reviewed by Mike Cheney. This book is full of earthy, meditative, and spiritual richness which evinces in the reader the clear connection between the practical and the mystical without going to great lengths to explicitly describe that connection. … Read more
Rainbows and Worn-out Shoes
By Esther McIlveen. Margaret Avison loved and understood the characters at Evangel Hall, an inner city mission run by Knox Presbyterian Church on Spadina Ave. in Toronto Ontario, with about 100 single men. She identified with their poverty, mental illness and aloneness. … Read more
God Is Faithful
By Carol S. Ward. There are wonderful signs of the Holy Spirit moving in great power amongst us in many different ways and across the denominations. The Alpha program is impacting almost every denomination, and the Renewal Network Conferences are drawing people to worship God in openness to the movement of the Holy Spirit in their midst. … Read more
The Body, by Charles Colson
Reviewed by Roma E. Bryant. The huge gulf between the Christian and the secular view of man is sometimes underestimated. People around us don’t seem so different, but their world view is utterly in conflict with our Christian values. … Read more
Editorial: The Tension Between Law And Gospel
By Calvin Brown. Among Christians there has always been a tension between law and gospel, between living in grace and forgiveness and the call to holiness and justice, between freedom to choose what we think best for us as individuals and losing our moral compass. … Read more
Worship Workshop: Children and Worship
By Trudy Schalk. Rather than an educational perspective, the aim of Young Children and Worship is to provide a worship perspective, offering children an environment to enter into the stories and experience God’s revelations through the Holy Spirit. … Read more