Family life is being increasingly affected by screens … TVs, computers, game consoles, along with hand-held electronic media — the ubiquitous cell phone, and portable devices like Sony’s PSP. This generation, more than any that preceded it, do not regard electronic media as anything special. Concerned parents can wonder just how ‘normal’ all this screen […]
Mental Illness: How Can Congregations Respond? Part 1
A friend emailed me about an acquaintance who had been newly diagnosed with bipolar illness. Bill had struggled and suffered a lot in the previous years with undiagnosed severe depression. Although the bipolar diagnosis was hard to live with he realized that he needed to accept it and learn to manage it. Writes my friend […]
How to ‘do old’ well
“I truly believe that the latter season of our lives should be exciting,” wrote Ross Wightman in his new book Is a Pastor’s Life Dull? Wightman (aged 90) knows what he is talking about. After 33 years in full-time ministry, the last 12 years at Bethel Temple in Mission, he retired in 1983. But he […]
Making a home in Canada’s poorest neighbourhood
In this season of Christ’s incarnation, CC.com profiles individuals who have become neighbours of people in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Trista Parry, the pastor of The River — a church in the heart of Vancouver’s poverty-ridden Downtown Eastside — laughs when asked to describe her congregation. “We’re the most dysfunctional family in the whole entire world,” […]
Giving Back: Navajo in Canada
“We have been given so much in our ministry, Herman and I just want to give back to the Lord what He has blessed us with,” stated Cynthia Nells. So goes the overriding sentiment behind the missionary work of Herman and Cynthia Nells, a Navajo couple ministering to the First Nations people in Canada. I […]
The economic crisis: What should Christians and the church be doing?
Crohns, control & Christ (Part 1)
In 2001 Carole, who did not grow up with a religious background, had a powerful encounter with God that has changed her life. She attends a Roman Catholic church in Regina. I considered myself as in complete control of my life. A middle class woman, wife and mother of two teenagers, I was running a […]
How We Love as Couples
“How can we ever have any hope of a happy future together?” “Will this relationship ever work out?” “It feels like we’re living like roommates under the same roof!” These comments are often made by people struggling with discouragement and disappointment in their marital or couple relationship. What started as a bright future filled with […]
Why it is urgent to reach young people with the gospel
I recently spent some time reflecting upon strategic issues related to the church. As I have done a personal and strategic review, I’ve pondered some very important material. Some is information I’ve had for years, and some is new. God’s call In the early 1990s, I received the simple numeric results from a survey conducted […]
Carrying each other’s burdens: Christian support for people with depression
“I felt like a car was parked on my body. I couldn’t move.” “I couldn’t feed or dress myself. A friend had to come by every day to feed me.” These are the words of two people who live with depression. When I have gone through depressions as part of my struggle with bipolar disorder, […]
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