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Spiritual Battles on the Narrow Road

Brandon — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:00:44 +0000

Personally, I've found a peace that I haven't had for a long time. For nearly the whole summer I have been struggling through my salvation. After I began to really take the Bible seriously, I went through an intense season of examining my life to see if I was on the right path. It wasn't necessarily a fun time but I learned a lot of valuable things such as perseverance and I g... Read more…

Unexplained Peace in the Midst of Chaos

Brandon — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:00:19 +0000

This has been an interesting week, full of emotions. This week I experienced a friend lose his sister; his parents, lose their daughter. On Tuesday evening we (Justin and I) drove our friend out to Calgary to join his family. His sister had been in a car accident and the doctors were having trouble stabilizing her. We arrived about 1 in the morning and waited. The doctors to... Read more…

The Stand

Brandon — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:00:59 +0000

What does it mean to be a follower of Christ? That's what I've been working out over the past few months. I know it's a lifelong process but I think it's important to earnestly seek this out right now. And the answer to this question is so important. We only have one chance at this life and then we face death. And there are only two options for eternity (that's forever... Read more…

Putting My Future Fully in His hands

Brandon — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:00:27 +0000

The end of December 2010 was probably the craziest time of my life. After getting home from Bible school I told God to do whatever He needed so that I could fully live for Him. I found out that is a very dangerous prayer. Through circumstances I was brought to a place where my whole future (that I had planned) was gone. I was left in a broken state and I didn't know what to do. I didn't... Read more…

He Must Become Greater; I must become less

Fadi — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:00:42 +0000

I went for a walk alone downtown and I spent it pretty much talking to the Father. When I reached the harbor front I was very pleased with the beautiful scene of the full moon and its light reflection on the water. But deep inside my heart was heavy as I had many worries.... Read more…

Forward Ever, Backwards Never

Shane Patterson — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:00:31 +0000

The children of Israel had strayed away from God and taken up the worship of idols. Jehu was chosen and anointed to clean the idols and all those who worshipped Idols out of Israel. He did, however he did not leave the ways of sin behind. Instead He continued to dishonor God and do wrong in His sight.

And the Lord said unto Jehu,... Read more…

God’s Wisdom vs Human “Wisdom” – Part 2

Fadi — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:00:35 +0000

I had a friend whom I truly loved with all my heart. If she would’ve asked for my eyes I would’ve given them to her easily. Anyway, in early 2007 she ended our friendship and that hurt me deeply since she was my best and only close friend.

One day as I was going to work I felt so sad, so rejected, so betrayed, so hum... Read more…

God Shouts in Our Pain

Fadi — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:00:55 +0000

I think all of us have two sides to our personalities: sometimes we are out going and sometimes we like to be alone; sometimes we like classical music and other times we just want to listen to electric guitar; sometimes we like change and sometimes we don’t. Generally speaking I love routine, I don’t like change; however, in my relationship with God I like change for many reasons... Read more…

The Eye is the Lamp of the Body – Part 3

Fadi — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:00:49 +0000

I want to define the word “pure” before I go on because like the word “sensual” we have a distorted idea of what it means. Imagine a bath tub full of clean water…let’s say it is made of 50,000 water drops. Now take 1 drop of black ink and drop it in it: is the water in the bath tub still considered to be clean? The answer is no, it is not.

He Sets The Captives Free

Fadi — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:28:11 +0000

I am going to talk about a topic most would consider to be very sensitive, and that is, pornography. So if you don’t feel comfortable reading about it please stop whenever you like to. I will talk about it from my personal experience and will not to focus on porn or talk about it in details, as my goal is not to assist others to indulge in... Read more…

Discover the Truth – Part 2

Tyler — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:00:44 +0000

In Part 1 of this study we looked at the book of Romans (12:1-2) and determined that there are three lessons that we can learn from the passage. We focused on the first lesson, Present your bodies as living sacrifices, it's an easy thing to say but so hard to... Read more…

Just Give Me Jesus

Fadi — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:42:42 +0000

This is my classmate Katya who is an Orthodox Christian from Russia. Katya has an amazing voice—the best I have ever heard in real life. She can sings anything from a deep voice like Louis Armstrong in What a Wonderful World to an angelic choir voice which she does regularly at her church. She has an excellent control over her vocals even though she has never... Read more…