Episode 43: Nurturing a Healthy Heart
In this episode, Rob and Pat discuss how worshippers and worship leaders can nurture a deeper and richer relationship with Christ in 2023.
In this episode, Rob and Pat discuss how worshippers and worship leaders can nurture a deeper and richer relationship with Christ in 2023.
When my son was only four months old, he contracted a virus that led to him being unable to breathe. In the desperate effort to re-start his respiratory system, medical professionals intubated my son, Will. He started seizing as they intubated him. His pediatrician was flummoxed. Even so, God answered our prayer and my boy started breathing again with manual assistance. When Doctors from Sick Kids Hospital arrived, they were perplexed by the seizing and his resultant comatose state. It was throwing off a diagnosis. After questioning the attending pediatrician and nurses, they thought Will might have been given an...
“I am giving you a new way of life: you are to love each other. I have shown you the true form of love, so love each other according to this form. By doing this, anyone and everyone will know that you are my followers because such love dwells in your midst.” (John 13:34–35, my translation) “Beloved, the love God has shown us obliges us to love others.” (1 John 4:11, my translation) In this article, I want to explore the way of love that Jesus institutes in John’s gospel. In particular, I want to think through the nature and...
Pandemics can make us feel helpless and afraid. I recently saw a meme going around social media of Jean-Luc Picard bracing for impact on the starship Enterprise and the caption read “How I wake up every morning”. I think this sentiment is one we can all relate to. The anticipation of worse things to come is exhausting and deflating. But perhaps our perspective would change if we saw Covid-19 as an opportunity to show Christ’s love to hurting people? Imagine what would happen if the church rose up en masse in this hour of need to offer practical help and...
To tell most Canadians that you should not love unconditionally would be to shock them. They would probably think you are clueless or wicked or both. The same is true of Canadian Christians. If I say that God does not love you unconditionally, most Christians will think I do not know what Christianity teaches at a deep and fundamental level. So, just to be clear, the Bible does not teach that God loves unconditionally or that you should love unconditionally and that is good news, a sign that the Bible is wise. Love and moral judgments I do not know...