There is a disturbing disconnect between the church and generation X and Y. Young people have drastically different values, mindsets, worldviews, and attitudes than those of previous generations. They have grown up with the messages of free choice, relativism, tolerance, multiculturalism, and political correctness. … Read More
Christianity works best when worship, belief in Christ, and belonging through giving and worship come together. However, western young adults so easily separate behaviour, belief, and belonging. We need stronger links of faith, reasons, actions, and relationship, and see the damage of disconnecting them. … Read More
Where many churches have become introverted, self-serving, and closed, the author, in addition to his pastoral responsibilities at St. Andrew's, Parry Sound, has been involved in sending short-term mission teams to Nicaragua for the past 7 years under the auspices of Threefold Ministries. … Read More
What was there about this man that God used him so mightily? There was an essential humility, a self-effacing, even self-deprecating, inability to take himself seriously. His ability to cross time zones and emerge from intercontinental air flights was an act of heroic proportions. … Read More
Coquitlam Presbyterian Church was established in 1965, when many Christians were renouncing personal faith. Against all odds, this congregation has grown consistently, until today, it is seventeenth in Sunday attendance in the denomination, averaging 310 worshippers per week. … Read More
Most people believe that there is some kind of God out there that helped everything get started, but how are they choose which one of the world religions is right? How do we prove that the Christian faith is the right one? What makes choosing Jesus the right answer? … Read More