Darrell Johnson is well known around Vancouver, and far beyond, as a preacher and author. He will introduce his new book – The Story of All Stories: Genesis 1 – 11 – at a Regent College book launch next Wednesday… Read more →
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Around Town: Stronger Together, pray for TWU, Iain Provan teaching pastors …
by Flyn Ritchie • • 0 Comments
Several locally-based organizations have received sizable Stronger Together grants. A Rocha Canada, ACTS / WaterSchool, FH Canada, Northwest Baptist Seminary, Ratanak International, Trinity Western University and Wellspring were among the 20 organizations which were, in all, awarded over one million dollars. Ratanak International, for… Read more →
Dead Sea Scrolls were found 70 years ago, but keep offering new insights
by Andrew Perrin • • 1 Comment
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Long story short, in late 1947 a young Bedouin boy tossed a stone into a cave, heard the clink of breaking pottery, and would later scramble in… Read more →
A bridge between the stories of Samson and Unist’ot’en resistance
by Tama Ward Balisky • • 0 Comments
This is the account of a storytelling event that brought together an Eastside Vancouver church and a First Nations community in British Columbia’s central interior. More importantly it’s the account of a 10 year old boy named Graeme who, for… Read more →
When global crisis meets the Canadian church: How will we respond?
by Craig Kraft • • 0 Comments
Newly elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has opened Canada’s doors for 25,000 Syrian refugees by early next year. What seemed like a good thing to many people has suddenly become very contentious following the terrorist attacks in Paris November 13.… Read more →
John Neufeld has a new role, but his goal is still winning people to Christ
by John Neufeld • • 2 Comments
Dr. John Neufeld stepped down as senior pastor of Willingdon Church last September and by December had been appointed as Back to the Bible Canada’s first Canadian Bible teacher. Now people who have missed his dynamic preaching – and those… Read more →
Around Town: John Piper, Centennial of Armenian Genocide, Social Gospel . . .
by Flyn Ritchie • • 0 Comments
Westside Church will welcome one of America’s best known theologians next week (April 24 – 25). John Piper will lead his Look at the Book Conference, which he says is “a new method of teaching the Bible.” Piper describes… Read more →
Books: Seriously Dangerous Religion; Justyn Rees’s Bible; Ed Hird’s Titus . . .
by Flyn Ritchie • • 0 Comments
By my reckoning, Christian authors in the Metro Vancouver area have published at least 25 books this year. I’ll look at some of the (broadly) Bible-related books this week, then over the next couple of weeks consider fiction/arts and what… Read more →
Noah revives, and transforms, Bible movies
by Peter T. Chattaway • • 0 Comments
If you want to know anything – and I do mean anything – about Noah (opening this week), go to Peter Chattaway’s FilmChat blog. You’ll discover he has been on the trail for quite some time now. Not only has… Read more →