Category: Columns
How tolerant are Christians?
by Michael Keith In a speech responding to a pending Koran burning by a pastor in Florida, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said: “My God and my Christ is a tolerant God, and that’s what we want to see in this world.” What does tolerant mean?…
Worry is like a rocking chair
“Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you” (1 Peter 5:7). Periodically the accumulation of trash and unused items in our basement must be cleared away. Boxes that might be useful, scraps of lumber from handyman projects, and bags of outgrown clothing…
Ponderings from the president
The night of Halloween 2001, the mayor of Inglis, Florida (a town of 1200 people, north of Tampa) decided to take action. The town had been experiencing a tougher-than-normal year with an increase in crime, drug abuse and general lawlessness, especially among its younger citizens….
From the President
In its recent bailout package, the United States committed to helping faltering industries to the tune of more than 1 trillion dollars. A trillion dollars! I’ve never been able to wrap my head around what a billion is, let alone a trillion. To help put…
Where youth ministry begins
For some 25 years I had the privilege of teaching confirmation classes in churches I served as a pastor. If you ask what the single most potent “ingredient” was in the students who seemed successful in those classes and went on to be fruitful young…
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