Christmas

Keep me here, in this moment in time. May I be present to you, in body, mind, and heart, and so serve you as I live wholly connected to your…

  “What do you think about putting a sword in the display at the front of the church on Christmas Eve?” One of the decorators at church asked me a…

The prophet Isaiah appreciates breathtaking mountaintop views. In his vision, he sees the mountain of the Lord as the highest of elevations, with the nations walking up to the summit—together.

Pilgrim Year (series) Steve Bell Novalis In the Worship Arts program at Columbia Bible College, students often encounter the practice of the liturgical year for the first time. Although they…

The hectic Christmas season is upon us. It’s a season of contradictions: canned music blares sentimentally on the most awesome of themes, the incarnation of God; we seek for gifts to celebrate love

At the Christmas program in 2014, I met a young woman who attended the community program at Healing Hearts Ministry.   As we chatted, I invited her to our New Year’s…

When someone you love is a collector, deciding what to get them for Christmas is easy. (If you’re wondering/shopping, I collect contemporary Canadian poetry books.) People collect all kinds of…

    And the Word became flesh! “And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son,…

When a local Delta, B.C., realtor named Randy Mann sold three houses and listed two more in one weekend, New Hope Christian Church administrator Daniela Filby decided to talk turkey.

 …………..  ……………………… I try to practise the fruit of the Spirit in dealing with others, especially with my family. When my youngest says, “Mom, watch!” for the 100th time in…

Christmas cheer in a bleak time space space In 1929, the local people hosted a Christmas celebration for the Mennonite refugees in the camp in then-Hammerstein, Germany (now Czarne, Poland).…