The message of Hosea is a hard one for us to wrap our heads around. God is saying that because of their long and stubborn persistence in sin, he is resolved to punish them severely – though not finally. He will undertake a drastic pruning – but…

Human beings cannot flourish on their own. Apart from God, they can do nothing. This theme runs throughout the length and breadth of the Bible. In Genesis 3 just before God sent Adam out of the garden and into an extended period of exile he said: …

“So I am to them like a lion; like a leopard I will lurk beside the way” (Heb 13:7 ESV).

In the 8^th century BC Israel was in a very tight spot. There were powerful neighbours to the north and to the south and Israel often got caught in between.…

Dr. Martyn Lloyd Jones said, “The Bible is primarily the textbook of salvation; it is an account of God’s way of saving men and women.”

I like that.

The bible is primarily a book about God, but not God in the abstract; not God as “concept,” but God…

church autonomy and faithful witness. Canadian Baptists have been hurtling towards this confrontation for years.

In 2014, my colleague Marc Bertrand and I wrote an article called “Canaries In The Coalmine” [1]. In it we detailed a variety of…

This pandemic has been hard on the evangelical witness in North America. Some of that can be written off as simply the cost of compliance. We haven’t been as active or as visible in our communities as we would normally like to be, in the interests of…

For nearly a decade I have been alarmed at the liberal drift of the CBOQ.  I have not been silent in my concern, I have been consistently vocal in my attempt to rouse other pastors and churches to the danger of liberalism in our midst.  I am a…

Our church has not celebrated holy communion since March 1^st 2020. Like many churches, our understanding of what communion is and how it should be observed, did not allow us to attempt any sort of online or virtual experience. However, with the…