Sowing with tears at the Best Christmas Pageant Ever
We haven’t wept and laughed so much at any Christmas movie. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, based on Barbara Robinson’s 1972 novel, is both very lighthearted and deeply touching. Christianity Today commented: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is pretty much everything you’d want in a faith-based family Christmas movie. It’s heartfelt, self-aware, and genuinely funny… Christmas touches deep emotions for…
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Lord, teach us to pray
Recent months contained outbursts of screaming circumstances that cornered me into admitting, “Man is born for trouble as sparks fly upward” (Job 5:7). The world staggers from explosive devastation: Florida lays ravaged by mega-force hurricanes Helene and Milton Gaza and Lebanon lay crumbled by raging battles between Hamas, Hezbollah, and Israel The Canadian House of…
William Seymour: Father of the Azusa Street Revival
Who might have imagined almost 120 years ago in 1906 that a one-eyed black preacher in Los Angeles would eventually impact over 800 million people around the globe? William Joseph Seymour (May 2, 1870 – September 28, 1922) was the second of eight children born to recently freed slaves Simon and Phyllis Seymour in Centerville,…
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Communication skills
With Derek Satnik, Vice President of Technology, Smart Communities, s2e Technologies Developments Inc. Communication builds understanding, which snowballs into healthy relationships full of trust, respect, patience, confidence and believing the best in others. Learning to communicate better reinforces that we’re on the same team, which keeps us focused on things that matter, not fighting each other…
God’s grace provides victory in Christ
God’s desire for every believer is true freedom, not the counterfeit freedom the world offers, but the kind of freedom that comes from walking in the Spirit. This freedom contrasts with the chains of the flesh. The Apostle Paul put it this way, “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm,…
Generosity, Part 2: Love leads to generosity
Love leads to generosity. That makes sense, doesn’t it? It certainly does to me. Imagine your kids or your spouse or anyone else you love. Don’t you just want to give them good stuff? To put it more biblically, if your son asks for bread, would you give him a stone instead? I don’t think…
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Wildflower – The love song from heaven
Wildflower: The Love Song from Heaven – is a fascinating biography by Lesley Ann Richardson revealing the story of her late husband, Dave Richardson, whom she met in Jerusalem in 2008 – she originally from Brisbane, Australia and he from Victoria, Canada. Dave was a poet and policeman – a rare combination indeed. He was a…