One of the heartbreaking facts of the church is that many hundreds of pastors leave ministry every year. Most are badly wounded – broken from years of functioning poorly, sometimes inappropriately, in the vocation given them by the Lord. Why … Read the full article
In John 17, Jesus prays the following prayer for the church:
I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one. As
In the 1980s a new church was initiated in the north-west Greater Toronto Area. It was developed as an essentially white, Anglo-European background congregation. Early on, however, people from other cultural backgrounds began to attend largely because of a perceived … Read the full article
“It was a dark and stormy night…” We hear these words and find ourselves intrigued. We want to know what happened on that “dark and stormy night” and so we read on and enter more fully into the story. … Read the full article
Whenever we drive in another city, my wife and I get lost. It could be downtown Chicago or Guelph, Ontario; regardless of where we start from, we will somehow become disoriented and diverge from our neatly printed directions. A street … Read the full article