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For everything there is a season.  Trinity Bible Chapel’s COVID-19 saga is officially over.  About three years ago, we received our first tickets.  Then we were convicted of contempt of court.  Then we received more tickets, were convicted of contempt of court again, and the government stole our building.  We met outside for worship for
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A Hindu group is erecting a 55-foot-high statue of a Hindu god on their temple-grounds in Brampton, Ontario.  For context, 55 feet is about the length of a full-size big-rig trailer on the highway.  The Hollywood sign is only 50 feet high. It’s an imposing figure, and its stature would cast a long shadow over
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The 4th Commandment, the one that pertains to the Sabbath, is the most contested of the Ten Commandments.  In fact it’s the only commandment that is actually contested among Christians who hold to an orthodox view of Scripture.  A number argue that the requirement of Sabbath is not for today.  It was for the Old
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The homosexual movement cannot be satisfied.  A short few years ago, they just wanted the right to be “married”.  So, overhauling millennia of tradition, the government tried to reinvent marriage for them. Just for them.  They overthrew a cornerstone of civilization.  And that wasn’t enough.  It was once “GLB.”  Then “LGB.”  Then “LGBT.”  “LGBTQ.”  I
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Last week, I reviewed Dale Partridge’s book, A Covering for Glory (see here).  The book makes the case for women wearing headcoverings during worship services, as well as for men not wearing headcoverings during worship services.  I offered a favourable review, as I wholly support his position.  In 2017, I preached from 1 Corinthians 11:2-16
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Dale Partridge wrote A Cover for Glory, which Relearn Press published just recently in 2023.  Partridge is the pastor of King’s Way Bible Church in Prescott, Arizona, and he leads several other ministries, including Reformation Seminary.  The book is an exegetical study of 1 Corinthians 11:2-16, which is the biblical passage that instructs women to
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Christian Nationalism is all the chatter, occupying headspace for anyone who cares to listen.  The secular establishment has been given over to unthinkable manifold depravities, and some folks are looking for a better foundation than the poisoned fluidity of secularism.  As fluid and gender-fluid as secularism might be, the definition of Christian Nationalism might be
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The week before last the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled on Trinity Bible Chapel’s constitutional challenge.  I’ll talk about that in a moment, but first let me offer some background. Back in 2020 and 2021, the Canadian people got scared because the news said we were facing a death-dealing pandemic.  Our provincial government granted Premier
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