5 things to remember on your very worst day
The Holmes and Rahe stress scale lists the most stressful life situations in order of “life-change units.” These life-change units affect the chance that various events will negatively impact your...
View ArticleThe cross as conquest
For the first thousand years of Christianity, Christ’s victory was the central theme in the preaching of the Cross. This metaphor is found across the New Testament, the church fathers and early...
View ArticleIs church meant to be safe?
Recently I had an experience where I was sharing in a group with other Christians. We were all speaking very openly about some of the issues that we were struggling with in our lives. As one member of...
View ArticleOrdinary work
I simply get to work on ordinary things. This is all I know to do when I don’t know what to do. We go for a walk in the morning’s cold. We pay attention to the snow dusting the tops of the mountains to...
View ArticleThere is no Us or Them, there’s just Us
In an article posted on February 17, 2016 in the Winnipeg Free Press, Nick Martin reported that a group of students at Providence University College, an evangelical college located in Otterburne,...
View ArticleThe surprising good news of grace
Set aside the question of heaven or hell when we reach the afterlife: what about heaven or hell while we live? It’s only by God’s grace that we reach heaven, but the good news is better than we know:...
View ArticleThe Church is in decline, but I’m still hopeful
I was sad and fearful when I first read about the drastic decline in the Western church. The people I love so much, my people, are dwindling. “At risk of extinction”, they say. “Not culturally...
View ArticleHow do we die well?
How do we die well? As the government debates over doctor-assisted death, we ask, what about the need to expand access to end-of-life care for all Canadians? Find more at: www.contextwithlornadueck.com...
View ArticleIt’s hard to believe in Jesus
The cross is shock therapy for a world addicted to solving its problems through violence. The cross shocks us into the devastating realization that our system of violence murdered God! The cross is...
View Article5 reasons churches are afraid of disability ministry
Is your church ready to minister to families with disabilities? Perhaps you want to but have some fears about how that would look like. The following are some observations from someone who is both a...
View ArticleEstablished in the story
From the earliest days of the Church, theology (the study of God) has been a really big deal. And, so it should be! As followers of Jesus we need to know what we believe and why we believe it....
View ArticlePalm Sunday, partisan politics, and the power of the cross
We remember it in the church as Palm Sunday. The date marks the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. It’s the day when Jesus of Nazareth pre-planned a comical, yet prophetic event, in order to...
View ArticleDoctor assisted-dying
The competing rights of freedom of conscience, freedom of religion and access to physician-assisted death are at an impasse in Canada. When the Supreme Court last year struck down Criminal Code...
View ArticleThe place of Christianity within the contemporary Canadian landscape
Christians have often struggled with living in a society that has been consistently opposed to biblical ideals. The New Testament, particularly Luke’s account in the Book of Acts, is replete with...
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The Re-Jesus effect
Much can be said about the defining role of Jesus in the ecclesia…what we call the church. Christians have always agreed that the church is all about Jesus—her very existence, identity, purposes, and...
View ArticleChristianity doesn’t need more cynics, it needs more people selling hope
I might be wrong, but I think Christianity has a lot of cynics. Too many, perhaps. I believe that, because I am one of them and I notice there are a lot of people around the Internet who think like me....
View ArticleA revolution in worship
There has always been an overwhelming temptation for people of faith to fixate on and obsess over how we worship God, rather than focusing on how our worship ought to change us. We have fixated on the...
View ArticleWhat is better than demanding rights, defining enemies, and defending...
Persecution. It’s a word many Christians in the West use to describe what’s happening to them. Just a short time ago I received an email claiming there is a “powerful assault” against Christianity in...
View ArticleFor a girl
"You know, for a girl, you can really preach." "I normally don’t read books by girls, but I read your book" "I never listen in while I’m running sound for these lady things, but I listened this time...
View ArticleMy problem with the Bible
I have a problem with the Bible. Here’s my problem. I’m an ancient Egyptian. I’m a comfortable Babylonian. I’m a Roman in his villa. That’s my problem. See, I’m trying to read the Bible for all it’s...
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