By Calvin Brown. This issue of Channels reminds us of how God’s love is with his people in every time and age and how that witness of his faithfulness blends one time with another. … 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 Problem of Preaching, by Donald Macleod
Reviewed by Stephen Self. Preaching is the art of making the preacher and delivering that. The preparation of the speaker is more important than the preparation of the sermon. Six qualities every sermon should have … Read more
Victory over the Darkness, by Neil T. Anderson
Reviewed by Roma E. Bryant. Nobody can solve your problems. That’s a process you must initiate and follow through with. Thankfully none of us walks alone. The indwelling Christ is eagerly willing to walk with us each step of the way. … Read more
The Current American Presbyterian Firestorm: Any Implications for Canadians?
A. Donald MacLeod recounts the effects of the feminist Re-Imagining conference on the Presbyterian Church (USA), and speculates on the lessons it has for evangelical Canadian Presbyterians. … Read more
Executive Director’s Report Summer 1997
Calvin Brown compares how the Canadian Presbyterian General Assembly dealt with Darryl Macdonald, a self-confessed practising homosexual, and how the American Presbyterian General Assembly dealt with the amended and greatly weakened “Fidelity and Integrity” Amendment … Read more
Dousing a Firestorm: Evangelical Euphoria at the 1994 American Presbyterian General Assembly
By A. Donald MacLeod. A PC(USA) General Assembly decision about the “Re-Imagining” conference indicates that the center of the church has regained its voice and the right and the left have agreed to move on. … Read more
Jesus Who?
By Paul Barnett. Although nineteen hundred and fifty-four years have passed since his death, Jesus of Nazareth remains a continuing figure of fascination, and not just to Christians. Is the Bible reliable? … Read more
Keep in Step with the Spirit, by J.I. Packer
Reviewed by Harold W. Dawes. The announced intention of Packer’s book is not to write another book on the theology, role, or place of the Spirit … but to provide a practical focus on the Spirit that would fulfill Paul’s injunction to the Christian to both walk and be filled by the Spirit. … Read more
Presbyterianism and Renewal
By Ian Rennie. With each major movement of renewal, the Presbyterian Church has been thrust into new areas and dimensions of ministry, beginning with Calvin and Knox, and continuing in Canada through men like Robert Burns and James Robertson, to current examples. … Read more
Inclusive Language and Modern Worship
By Ian McPhee. If the issue was simply a matter of changing hymns to avoid an appearance of exclusive male reference at the human level only, there could be little objection. But language about God cannot be changed without severing ties to Christian tradition. … Read more
An Evangelical Perspective on Some Issues Facing Theological Colleges Today
By J.H. (Hans) Kouwenberg. In trying to be faithful today, many theological colleges are more concerned about the cross-cultural, anti-Judaistic, or feminist dimensions of their work, than about the evangelical and classical expressions of the Christian faith. … 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
Living Churches feature: McKercher Drive Church, Saskatoon
By W.J. Fenton. Worship services convey a sense of joy, of hope, and of expectancy. The concept of joining together as a spiritual “family” has been encouraged. Elders with different but complementary gifts make up a strong and unified Session. … Read more
Call It What It Is
By John G. Stackhouse, Jr. Every year as I teach my survey course on world religions at university, I dread having to teach the Christian faith for two main reasons. First, all religions have difficult and complicated features. But Christianity has inexplicable mysteries at its very heart that simply have to be discussed even in an introduction to its teachings. … Read more