“O come, O come, Emmanuel, and ran­som cap­tive Israel, that mourns in lonely exile here, until the Son of God appears. Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel”. (O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, 12^th

… Read the full article

Lead­er­ship is a com­plex and multi-​​​​dimensional phe­nom­e­non. While the mis­sional par­a­digm is not leader-centric—rather, “every dis­ci­ple is to be an agent of the King­dom of God” (Hirsch, “Defin­ing Missional”)—leadership is nev­er­the­less indis­pens­able to liv­ing out the call­ing of the church. … Read the full article

Intro­duc­tion

For many years the evan­gel­i­cal church in Canada has seen itself as pas­sion­ate about mis­sion. We have sent large sums of money over­seas to sup­port inter­na­tional mis­sions while at home the local church sel­dom moved out­side of its own … Read the full article

So often we hear our con­text described as post-​​​​modern, post-​​​​liberal, post-​​​​Christian, or the like. Despite the image of col­lapse, the lan­guage dis­plays a cer­tain dose of Cana­dian humil­ity and polite­ness: we don’t quite know yet what has really hap­pened, but … Read the full article

1 Peter 4.9 says sim­ply: “Be hos­pitable to one another … .” Hos­pi­tal­ity is a cru­cial Chris­t­ian prac­tice that man­i­fests the wel­come of God extended to human­ity through the death, res­ur­rec­tion and ascen­sion of his son, Jesus Christ. Through this … Read the full article