Jesus and the Apostles appear to have anticipated a great falling away just prior to his return and the full consummation of his Kingdom. Here are 10 things you should know about that Great Apostasy.
This past year has been a year like no other. The global pandemic due to COVID19 began to affect our lives as a congregation in March of 2020. On Friday, March 13th I was sitting in an indoor play gym in Barrie, on an advanced scouting trip for our…
The First Epistle of Peter was written in or around AD 63 to a group of Christians living in Pontus-Bithynia, an area in modern-day Turkey, just south of the Black Sea. These people were beginning to experience significant social and cultural…
There are few things more confusing to the average Christian than the question of how he or she should relate to the Old Testament Law. On the one hand, Jesus said:
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not…
Every couple of years in our church, it seems we lose a young person to some tragic accident. When the young person is a believer there is hope and comfort, but still a whole host of questions that are difficult to answer. Death gets us thinking…
This is a classic case of “right principle, wrong application”:
They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said to them, “You have gone too far! For all in the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is…
Around the year AD 63 the Apostle Peter wrote a letter to some Christians living in northern Asia Minor who were beginning to experience the first headwinds of social and state persecution at the hands of the Romans. They were not yet being…
At the beginning of this pandemic, most people were asking questions of a more immediate and urgent nature: What should I do to keep my family safe? What if I lose my job? What are the rules for personal or corporate gatherings? Who will be taking…
God is not “permissive”, but neither is he unreasonable. Reasonable exceptions to general rules are peppered all across the pages of Holy Scripture. In Numbers 9 verses 1-3 for example, we read: