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Just over a year ago, the Province of Ontario seized our church building and charged me, along with all our elders, with contempt of court for the second time.  The Province, claiming to be acting in the public good, had set limits on church attendance, and we had no regard for them.  We, ourselves claiming
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Early in the first COVID lockdown, I had quickly publicly opposed the mandates, and in April 2020 someone criticized a post I made.  The individual said that we should be doing our part to save society from COVID just as our ancestors did their part to save society from the Nazis in WWII.  I took
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I recently gave a talk called, “Persecuted for righteousness: should we flee?”, which can be accessed here.  I cleaned up my notes to make it into the essay below. INTRODUCTION We have passed through a season of persecution, and that is saliently undeniable, unless of course one writes for Gospel Coalition Canada where men work
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Our March 29, 2015, I called our church to start praying for rehoboth.  I was preaching Genesis 26:1-33 where God gave Isaac rehoboth.  Isaac had been a wandering nomad for many years, and finally God gave him land.  Rehoboth is the Hebrew word for “broad place” or “room.”  Up until that sermon, we as a
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We find ourselves in the middle of a fight for liberty.  The declaration of a pandemic in March 2020 led to fear within the general population.  The population, including many Christians, cried out to the state to save them from the perceived threat.  Fear and a cry of salvation to the state are ingredients for
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Our lender has frozen our line of credit and has reminded us that they can call our loan anytime.  Let me explain.  As a church we have been dealing with Kindred Credit Union (formerly Mennonite Credit Union) for many years.  Our relationship has been very friendly. When we took out our loan, we agreed to
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