Category: Columns
Our Father who art in Heaven
by Peggy Pedersen Children of God Not long ago, we had a visit from one of my five step-children. Even though I did not give birth to these children, still I look for reflections of myself in them. I love them, and wish for their…
A key named “Promise”
In the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a spiritual epidemic spread across England, infecting Christians with the belief that God would not forgive them. They desperately wanted to be saved, but they believed they had been shut out from grace. This condition—”despair,” as it was called—robbed…
Shock and Awe
by Mark Dressler One of my favourite “post-Easter” depictions is a painting of the resurrected Christ and the disciple Thomas. It is a wonderful work of art called “The Incredulity of Saint Thomas” by the Italian artist Caravaggio. The painting portrays the Easter encounter of Jesus…
Gospel-motivated love
by Mathew Block “He is not here. He is risen!” This is the Good News of Easter: Jesus Christ died, but He did not stay dead. He bore our sins, suffered the punishment we deserved, and three days after He was laid in the tomb,…
Recount the deeds of the Lord
by Peggy Pedersen “Go home to your family and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you” (Mark 5:19). There has been a lot of attention paid recently to journaling, recording family history, and scrapbooking of…
A well-spent Lent
FROM THE ARCHIVES: by Victor Parachin and Ian Adnams “It is a bad thing to be satisfied spiritually,” observed the British mystic Oswald Chambers. In earlier times, Christians, especially monks, nuns and others living in church institutions practiced various spiritual disciplines. They believed their work…
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