×

×
Section

Christian Living

The Joy of Christmas: Finding True Joy in Union with Christ

My youngest daughter loves Christmas. Of course, she loves it for the same reasons other kids her age do but there’s also a very specific reason: her middle name is “Joy.” She’s at that stage where she gets excited whenever she sees her name. She sees “Joy” everywhere during the advent season! I find myself having to remind her: “Sorry girl but these signs aren’t about you! They’re talking about the joy that Jesus brings to the world!” The joy of Christmas is about Jesus. And in the same region, there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over...

Chris Woznicki

The Virgin Birth Crucifies Arguments for Abortion

Wyatt Graham

A pro-choice organization called Catholics for Choice recently stated, “remember that Mary had a choice, and you should too.” The choice here refers to pregnancy, and the point is that Mary could have said no to the pregnancy. Mary’s choice, so they imply, means that we also have a choice when it comes to pregnancy because we can abort fetuses in the womb. I disagree. The dogma of the virgin birth denies the logic of abortion. It rejects the possibility of ending life in the womb because Christ became fully human when the Spirit overshadowed Mary from the moment of...

Have a Blessed Ancient, Weird, and Reformed Advent!

George Sinclair

There is a hunger in many Canadian Christians for practices which are truly old. So, why don’t you consider using a cycle of Bible reading and prayers for Advent which is both truly ancient and also reformed by the gospel? I am not a scholar, just a pastor, but my understanding is that the season of Advent goes back to the 300’s. The following Advent Bible texts and prayers are not that old but almost! Even better, up until about the 1970’s they were widely used. In 1073 the Sarum Missal was put together. This included, among other things, assigned...

Should We Practice the Way with John Mark Comer?

Wyatt Graham

I didn’t expect to enjoy John Mark Comer’s Practicing the Way as much as I did. I had heard Comer preach a sermon against Augustine and John Calvin’s view of God’s sovereignty, affirm that God limits the power of his will so that not everything happens according to God’s control, and observed him citing positively authors like Gregory Boyd and David Bentley Hart which made me wonder at Comer’s private theological views as well. Yet for all of my negative appraisals or suspicions I had going into Practicing the Way, I found myself enjoying the book and recognizing why Comer...

Life with Type-1 Diabetes

Ryley Heppner

I was twenty-seven years old when I was diagnosed with Type-1 Diabetes. You would think that my age would have made it a little less scary, but it didn’t. Fear I remember one night, after a few years of having diabetes, I had to call a friend to come over to put another needle in my stomach, because for whatever reason that night I couldn’t overcome the fear of doing it myself. A few years after that I sat in a small hospital office with my two diabetic nurses and for no real reason apart from the haunting weight of...

More Resources

Sort By:
LOAD MORE
Loading