Year: 1996

June Stevenson of Glad Tidings tells of sitting in a dark auditorium as one by one candles were lit in a gestures of prayerful support for the people of South Africa under apartheid. As each one shared with a neighbour … Read more

God bless you! Blessing someone who sneezes is a very old tradition, originating at a time when it was believed that a person was very vulnerable to possession by evil spirits while they sneezed. A sneeze is an involuntary action, … Read more

When I was younger, I went to my first service in a Roman Catholic Church and what a culture shock for a small town Presbyterian! Smells and bells and whistles greeted me, and kneel down, stand up and turn to … Read more

Once upon a time there was a place called Christendom and all the people were very happily a part of what they called the church, and everyone in the community… It reads like a fairytale in today's world where your … Read more

How many times have I wondered how best to share the love of God in Jesus Christ my Lord? I don't mean by being a missionary somewhere around the world, but right in my small town. My culture says its … Read more

I'm in Brazil today. I have to say that slowly because I'm a real small-town Canadian boy and this is that "trip of a lifetime" you hear people talk about. I'm joining hundreds of committed Christians from around the world … Read more

If Paul's letters are regarded as E-mail, then his message is evangelical, ethical, ecclesiastical – and also ecumenical. This is another word that makes some people suspicious. Yet originally it was one of Paul's greatest contributions to see the Church … Read more

If Paul's letters are viewed as E-mail (evangelical, ethical), then another of the E's is ecclesiastical. That's a word that sends shivers down some people's spines. It conjures up visions of the Church as an institution, often protecting its own … Read more

Paul's letters can be regarded as E-mail. If his message is basically evangelical then it is equally true that it is also ethical. That term comes from the Greek ethos, meaning habits or customs, thus referring to a person's character … Read more

Paul's letters are among the most influential ever written even if by today's standards they were certainly snail mail. In another sense, however, they might be regarded as E-mail, for the leading themes of Paul's letters all seem to begin … Read more