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I also wanted to know if God performs miracles today. The ones I witnessed were my own, deeply personal miracles. When my life should have been a mess, miracles shimmered instead—joy when there should be gloom. Peace instead of restlessness, and security when fear...
Philip was instructed by God to go to a certain place at a certain time, and when he arrived, there just "happened" to be an Ethiopian official on that same road, an Ethiopian with lots of questions about Scripture. A chance meeting? Hardly. Truly a divine...
There is an election in my province next month. Many in Ontario are discontent with the leadership, and they will be allowed to go to the polls and vote for a new leader. We are fortunate to live in Canada where bad governments can be voted out of office and better...
For centuries, the commentators on Scripture have been revered, and rightly so because they taught the great truths necessary for their times. They are great examples of how an understanding of Scripture and the culture of Christianity became known again in a very...
It was over 20 years ago. I was holding my baby son in my arms while my two other children played under a big tree in the front yard of an old house. The house was also a local food bank and I was watching my children while my wife went in. I had been laid off work...
"...he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more." (John 15:2) A few years ago we had hurricanes just three weeks apart. At our home, the first storm ripped off the nails and wire cords that held the thick bouganvilla vine into the...
The Train Driver told how he made choices as a very young man. He said, "I have worked through the momentous changes from steam to diesel, and was one of the last crewmen to qualify as an engineman for steam in New South Wales. "Then there were the various divisions...
Last week, in Building Solomon's Temple, Part 3, we discovered that we need to make room for God in our heart-temples, and we need to lay a firm foundation for our heart-temples by following Jesus and obeying His commands. Does the building of the temple proper have...
"Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain." (Psalm 127:1) What great plans! We were so excited to have come up with what we thought was going to be a really great plan. When the...
That's what I wanted to know. What is the best resolution one can make? I pondered what mine would be until I heard a new friend share her insight. We sat at the dinner table and she related the tragic death of her son. I understood as I've traveled on that road of...
"He who watches over you will not slumber." (Ps 121:3) We had just been there earlier in the day, and I never noticed any monster clues. It did, though, look like a claw foot of a giant monster for sure, and a photo doesn't lie. Does it? Where clay and rocky mountain...
"What was the most delicious meal you ever had?" That was the question in an online survey that popped up on my screen the other day. I moved my mouse over and clicked out of the survey, but the question stayed with me. As I thought about it only one answer came to my...
"'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'" (Jer 29:11, NIV2) A man, a beggar, sat at the temple gate, begging for money. He had been lame his entire life, and his sole...