Physical Bibles Are Homemade Apple Pie

A bit embarrassingly, we have two kinds of pew Bibles at our church. I didn’t realize this until one of our preachers began telling us which page numbers to turn to each week. Yes, numbers. For Psalm 91, turn to either page 512 or 593. The page numbers are also on the PowerPoint screen. Why do our preachers and volunteers go through this when everyone has a smartphone in their pocket? Why can’t we just be told to pull out our devices? It isn’t sinful to use your smartphone to look at the Bible passage on Sunday, but it isn’t...

Andrew Noble

Why You, Church Member, Should Read the Terms and Conditions

J. Quinn Clement-Schlimm

Are We the Idols?

Andrew Noble

Remembering Stan Fowler

Darryl Dash

How to Manage the Impact of Technology on the Home

Paul Carter

Bad Dreams

Reuben Bredenhof

In our household we like to have dream discussions. Especially when they were younger, the girls would share the dreams of the past night: funny dreams about our dog, strange dreams involving teeth, and scary dreams featuring snakes. We would laugh or shudder together, offer a plausible interpretation of what it all meant, and then carry on with our day. We tried not to take the dreams too seriously or invest them with too much importance. But dreams can also be impure. Maybe you’ve had it where you wake up and feel like you’ve actually done something wrong, even while...

Praying Desperate Or Numb

Clint Humfrey

When you pray, normally it is responsive. A crisis, a need, or a desire has erupted like molten lava, and our response to it has been to say, “Help!”[1] There is proactive prayer of a thoughtful variety, however most prayers are this other type of appeal: desperate or numb.[2] When we pray in these desperate or numb ways, the request for God to answer our plight has a flickering confidence that he will act. Scripture emboldens confidence, and the Spirit fills us to trust him more.[3] Often with an encouraged outlook, we don’t realize how much we need the help...

Time to Talk Bride Price: Lessons on Cross-Cultural Dating for Canadian Christians

Christian Clement-Schlimm

No shortage of evangelical resources speak to dating —when to date, how to date, who to date, or even if Christians should “date”— to such an extent that there are discernible subgenres of Christian dating material. For example, my favourite is the “questions you should ask” pieces. Yet, when it came to dating, no blog, podcast, or seminar prepared me for when my girlfriend brought up the topic of a “bride price.” Despite the number of evangelical churches and organizations that boast of their multicultural identity, finding resources that spoke to hard questions and difficult realities of cross-cultural dating as...