By Laurie Salmon. 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
Singapore ’87 – A Canadian Presbyterian Perspective
By John A. Vissers. My time at Singapore ’87 has given me a new perspective on the church around the world, on Christian leadership, on world evangelization, on the worship of God, on prayer, on the relationship between theology and evangelism, on renewal, and on the Christian church in Canada … Read more
Dying for the Gospel: The Gordons of Erromanga
By Peter Bush. After the murder of his brother, George Gordon, a missionary to Erromanga in the New Hebrides, James Gordon brought his murderers a message of forgiveness. Both Gordons preferred to train islanders to spread the gospel, and by 1900, 95% of the people of Erromanga were Christians. … 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
Celebrate Recovery!
By Scott Donaldson and Heather Parker. 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
Revival – Passé or Priority
By Larry Brice. Despite the challenge to double our church membership in the decade of the 1980’s, our communicant membership grew in only one year of that decade. Revival often is said to begin with prayer, the rediscovery of the Bible, personally sharing one’s Christian faith, and Christian love and service. … Read more
The Spirit at Forest Glade
By Rodger McEachern. Spirit Alive is a tool in the Lord’s hand that he uses to help bring about renewal tn his people. Jesus came alive for us at Forest Glade Presbyterian Church. … Read more
Evangelicals at Vancouver: An Open Letter
Although this open letter does not include everything that might be said by evangelicals about the WCC 6th Assembly – it was authored mid-way through the meetings – the general consensus of those who wrote it was that some positive things should be said even while we held continuing critical apprehensions. … 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
Worship Workshop: The Challenge of Solidarity
By Joe Reed. As evangelicals enter new relationships with Third World Christians, God through them challenges how we look at the world, shaking both the content and the vocabulary of those relationships. … Read more
Come Before Winter and Share My Hope, by Charles R. Swindoll
Reviewed by Jack Charleson. These daily reflections, backed by appropriate Scripture passages, can be used to develop a meaningful quiet time or provide a worthwhile supplement to devotions. … Read more
Worship Workshop: Two Songs
Here are two songs written by Bruce Robertson, a pastor at Burnaby Christian Fellowship, Burnaby, B.C. They are the property of Hallel Songs. Churches are welcome to copy them for overhead projector and congregational use. The words and music of the two songs appear in the PDF version of the page. … Read more
Thank God for the World
By Bruce Robertson. The sheet music for this children’s song appears in the original PDF
Kenya: No Price Tag On Democracy
By Timothy Njoya. For twenty years, the author has been persecuted by the Kenyan government's killer machine because his faith was giving birth to democratic political longings. He suffered beatings, cuts, broken bones, and imprisonment, twice experiencing resurrections from a coma. … Read more
Defeating the Dragon of the World: Resisting the Seduction of False Values, by Stephen D. Eyre
Reviewed by Greg Dallimore. The Dragons are those subtle seductions which keep us from being fully the children of God and from fully working out his purpose in the world. We might call these Dragons “worldliness” or “cultural values” … Read more