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

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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