Shining Some Jesus Light
Addy then asked if you could see Jesus inside of you and wondered, “If you went to the doctor so he could look at your skeleton, would Jesus show up in the picture?”
Life
Stories of Survival
Angels are mentioned more than 270 times in the Bible; yet, they tend to get short shrift in many Presbyterian congregations and homes.
Hanging onto Hope
One Hour in Paris is a well-told story by a bright and articulate Canadian woman. Her rape story appears at the outset; the rest of the book is about her recovery, about what worked and what didn’t as she tried to get on with her life, and about surviving trauma.
Disagreeing Friends
As a liberal I’m very critical of the smugness of liberals. As a liberal I’m also critical of the holier-than-thouness of evangelicals. Both these poses drive me absolutely batty.
A Story of Community
The ice is out and the ospreys are in. They are my favourite birds, fishermen like me.
Weird, Wonderful, Worrisome
Documentary The film is called Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. Now as we all know, 75 million years ago the Galactic Federation […]
A Tree in the City
Trees grow old. A maple can live to four centuries, but not in the city. They can’t shed and regenerate where we live.
Losing the Chains of Christendom
It appears as though many people in countries like Canada have deemed the church, with its continuing Christendom focus on all things religious and institutional, to be irrelevant while at the same time expressing more interest in the very things the New Testament declares the church ought to be about: faith, spirituality and participating in a unique egalitarian community.
Wholeness and Health
Neither option was a guarantee and either could prove life-threatening. As well, the two choices were mutually exclusive. Pursue the one and the other was no longer possible.
Bending the Wild
Addictions. So many addictions. The greatest of which is social norm: To be accepted.
A Most Fitting Epitaph
Whatever else it is, retirement is a kind of watershed. Watersheds are places that evoke reflection. And as I reflect over the past 32 years in ministry, I certainly remember the apparent successes. But perhaps more than anything else, what strikes me most are the failures.
Thinking Past Empire
This is a book about humility. That’s genuine humility, which preachers in our part of the world often lack. We talk about humility and then demonstrate that we’re not prepared to attend to voices other than our own, or to the Bible as others may read it.
The Good with the Bad
We were first appointed to Malawi in 1980. Our “first born,” as Malawians would say, was just a year old.
A Lego Easter
Kitsch BW Animations is a goofy little YouTube channel. They make old school, stop – motion animations. Mostly they use Lego and action figures and […]
Learning to Trust God
Henry Wildeboer, a pastor with the Christian Reformed Church, writes out of the crucible of 50 years of ministry experience and describes the many challenges and opportunities he faced in leading congregations to fulfil the great commission.
The Lesson of Candle Ice
Walking on ice has always freaked me out just a little. Every year at freeze-up in November I look out at the new ice on Lac La Hache and feel torn between the temptation to venture out on it and the terror of what could happen if I did.
Rest and Respond
I spent some time in January reading the11 issues of last year’s Record. Perhaps it was the frame of mind I was in but I noted a narrative that echoed from issue to issue.
Did I?
Did I? I wonder, sit on the floor and truly admire my children?
Bald Eagles, Bald Ministers and Goldfish
Terrible Idea So… I don’t know how or why I missed this one because it’s right up my alley, but apparently at the start of […]
Living and Dying in Hope
I think about death a lot. I’ve possessed this mindset since I was handed the shocking news that I have ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). On that cold, clear winter’s day, like a shadowy acquaintance from a far-away land, death came calling.