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Over the last two weeks in our church in St Jérôme, one family gave birth to twins while another lost triplets. Other families are pregnant as I write this post. Problems in pregnancy are on the minds of many in our congregation. Our daughter, Constance...
Overwhelmed by the devastation of cyclone Nargis but don't know what to do? Here's a recent update from WorldVenture (the missions organization we serve with), including first-hand accounts of the devastation and a chance to give: You have probably...
Trevin Wax posted this video from the popular TV show, "ER." The episode is on atonement, and a dying man confronts the platitudes of a liberal chaplain. At one point he says, "I want a real chaplain who believes in a real God and a real...
On my (Rob) recent trip to Oregon, I met the director of a radical ministry called GottaGo (I also met with several volunteers who have worked short-term in China). Here are a few paragraphs from their website: " We go into the brothels of our Hunan...
“You are Jesus Christ to me,” he said after we pulled his couch and table up over his second floor balcony with ropes (they didn’t fit up the narrow curving stairs). We stated that we serve as a response to what Christ did for us on the cross. One way...
I just began reading the book What's So Amazing About Grace by Philip Yancey . Here are a few quotes from the first chapter. I hope you are disturbed by them: I told a story in my book The Jesus I Never Knew , a true story that long afterward continued...
Google has teamed up with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to highlight the Darfus crisis using Google Earth : Google Earth has added a Global Awareness layer to its maps program that lets you learn about the crisis in Darfur. By selecting the Global...
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