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Vaping, James MacDonald, human trafficking in Canada, and feminism…

On Thursday, December 6, 2018, our church was invited by the City of Kitchener to sing, perform, and share the Christmas message on the main event stage at the Christkindl Market festival in front of City Hall. This was our second year in a row taking part in this annual Christmas event. The event organizersRead more

I close with what disquiets me most.  It is much more than a concern over theological phraseology and doctrinal precision, as much as I’m burdened about all that.  What disquiets me most is a great source of personal grief, and that personal grief is pastoral grief specifically.  I am disheartened by the dearth of an urgent expression of pastoral alarm for those who’ve been taken captive by Bruxyianity.  There are people who actually believe what Bruxy Cavey says about the Bible, about the atonement, and about all the other nonsense he teaches.

I put a sledgehammer through my basement wall.  Then I pounded a pry-bar through the studs and clawed the nails out.  It was all to gut my basement last winter.  I was re-doing a section of the basement myself.  I saved some money by not hiring someone, and the end-product was a room much moreRead more

Now being part way through a sermon series on Christ’s Sermon on the Mount, I found myself in Matthew 5:31-32 a few Sundays ago.  In that text our Lord teaches on divorce and remarriage.  I taught that our Lord allows for divorce under only exceptional circumstances upon which I elaborated, but even so divorce isRead more

Today is momentous because today marijuana is now legal in all ten provinces and three territories.  The Great White North is covered in a green haze, and that green haze smells sweet and skunky. Marijuana’s decriminalization, in this case, has at least two immediate consequences.  First, legalizing it inescapably destigmatizes it.  The second consequence isRead more

A great deal has now been written about Bruxy Cavey and his theology.  From my perspective, this has been going on for a while.  But for those who are just recently tuning in, I’ve provided a timeline of events.  To better help understand things, I’ve broken things down into 5 phases, with the first phaseRead more