When Dallas Willard was asked: 'How do you do “evangelism-discipleship?'  he responded with the following: "My short answer? You ravish people with the blessings of the Kingdom.

We are often drawn to the wrong things for all the wrong reasons, but sometimes for the right reasons too.

Does negation of family, clan, tribe and community and pressing towards individual freedom, rights and wants lead to inevitable chaos?

The effects of the Fall are reflected in the way people sin or show the ‘curse’ in their lives. This is reflected in at least three ways (cf. Genesis 3): You shall surely die.

When, in Isaiah 6, in ancient Israel in that dramatic year that King Uzziah died, the prophet was given to see the awe-full revelation of a greater King, Isaiah thought he was a dead man.

I suppose one of my most vivid pre-school memories was of summer afternoon naps on a prickly picnic-blanket, under a spreading elm in our backyard in Burlington, under the sometime watchful eye and

There's something that happens, that deepens us, when we suffer.

I am still enormously in debt to Dr. Francis Schaeffer, the founder of the L'Abri movement and at one time a co-pastor in St.

This clock belonged to my great aunt, Mary Willoughby Potter, who lived with her husband Jim at Freeman’s Corners (now part of Burlington, Ontario) early in the last century.

There is a new way of creating orchards and producing good fruit. The old orchards had trees that were taller, difficult to harvest. So, newer, dwarf varieties were tried.

We all need such a place: what author Madeline L’Engle meant in the book of that name, Circle of Quiet.

"We think we are headed toward the future. The truth is, the future is headed toward us." So says author Reggie McNeal in his book, The Present Future: Six Tough Questions for the Church.

I’ve always been intrigued by pathways, by the Journey, by the wonder of what may be just around the corner. And I'm glad of musicians and poets who remind us of it.