From 1917 until 1919, Sam Shoemaker served as a YMCA missionary in China. In January 1918, Sam met a fellow missionary to China, Frank Buchman, founder of the Oxford Group where he experienced a profound spiritual renewal through the "Four Absolutes" of honesty, purity, unselfishness, and love. Absolute Purity means to find some all-consuming and high faith and purpose which … [Read more...] about Bill Wilson and Rev. Sam Shoemaker: 12-Step Pioneers
Rev. Dr. Ed & Janice Hird
Books by Rev. Dr. Ed & Janice Hird include God's Firestarters; Blue Sky, a novel; and For Better, For Worse: Discovering the keys to a Lasting Relationship. Dr Ed’s newest award-winning book The Elisha Code is co-authored with Rev. David Kitz. Earlier books by Dr. Ed include the award-winning Battle for the Soul of Canada, and Restoring Health: Body, Mind, & Spirit.
John & Paula Sandford: Healing the Family
Many people are fascinated with science fiction, the battlefield worlds of Star Wars and Star Trek. John and Paula Sandford, as healing theologians, knew that the great arena of battle is inner space, rather than outer space. With their Elijah House ministry, their passion was to evangelize the unbelieving areas of the believer’s heart. They felt called to "restore the hearts … [Read more...] about John & Paula Sandford: Healing the Family
Benjamin Franklin and Jesus
I remember as a young child being taught Benjamin Franklin’s proverb: ‘Early to bed, early to rise, makes a person healthy, wealthy and wise.’ As my father and I were both early to bed, early to rise, I have a lot of happy memories of time spent together around the breakfast table together at 6 am. Benjamin Franklin had the common touch. As a brilliant philosopher, he … [Read more...] about Benjamin Franklin and Jesus
Sir John A. & Agnes MacDonald: A New Family for a New Country
Every time we spent a Ten Dollar bill from 1971 to 2018, we came face-to-face with Sir John A Macdonald, our first Prime Minister. Starting in 2018 with ‘woke’ Victoria, eight of Macdonald’s ten statues across Canada have been vandalized and removed by Canadian ‘cancel culture, though the one in Ontario’s Queen’s Park was recently returned. In the name of … [Read more...] about Sir John A. & Agnes MacDonald: A New Family for a New Country
Rev Dennis & Rita Bennett; Healing of Body, Mind & Spirit
Dennis and Rita Bennett pioneered in the area of healing the whole person. All of their 11 books, read by over a million people, involved the healing ministry in the power of the Holy Spirit. As consummate story-tellers the Bennetts wove numerous healing stories throughout each book. In his first best-seller Nine O’Clock in the Morning, Dennis recounted how on two … [Read more...] about Rev Dennis & Rita Bennett; Healing of Body, Mind & Spirit