NEVER SAY NEVER “There are two things I will never do: become a pastor or live in Africa.” I was a teenager when I witnessed someone decide to go into the ministry; I thought: What a waste of a life! Then, I listened to the story of a family who served as missionaries in Africa and faced some [...]
HAPPILY MARRIED = HEALTHIER “A merry heart does good like a medicine: but a broken spirit dries up the bones” (Proverbs 17:22). Familiar verse. Encouraging words. Perhaps some quasi-scientific connection? Not at all, the science is solid. White blood cells develop in yellow bone marrow, which is significant because “white blood cells are [...]
LOW-TO-NO-TECH EDUCATION Shortly before he passed away, Steve Jobs was asked by a New York Times journalist: “So, your kids must love the iPad?” Jobs said he banned his kids from using an iPad. “We don’t allow the iPad in the home. We think it’s too dangerous for them in effect.” Along the [...]
THE EFFECT OF ELECTRONIC MEDIA ON THE BRAIN “This past week,” my daughter wrote, “we decided to completely cut out our son’s screen time. He wasn’t watching every minute of every day, but it had slowly started to creep in more and more from just being when we drove in the car to [...]
PRAYER ACTIVATES YOUR BRAIN Studies have documented that families who habitually eat dinner together seem to raise children with better homework skills, higher grades, greater emotional control, and more confidence.ˡ And, get this, simply making your bed in the morning is correlated with better productivity, a greater sense of wellbeing, and stronger skills [...]
ULTRA-ENDURANCE CHRISTIAN “I do what’s called ultra-endurance bike packing races,” Chris Bennett, civil engineer, explains. “These are races typically of several thousand kilometers long. I’ve done a race of seven and a half thousand kilometers from Norway to Spain, a four and a half thousand kilometers race from London to Istanbul, a race [...]
GOD STILL LIVES TODAY “Donnie, I need you to pray for me to be able to forgive the people we have loved and served. It’s hard for me to forgive them for how they treated your grandfather.” But Don MacLafferty was just a little boy when Grandma Mac had asked him to pray [...]
PRESS TOGETHER It Is Written Canada is positioned as a “first contact” ministry. It is our job to make a “first contact” that awakens a desire for something better in our viewers. The key is transferring that new contact to a local church family. By offering free Bible studies to our viewers, for [...]
PREPARATION FOR THE LAST DAYS Ernest Hemingway told the story of a father whose teenage son sinned against him, and plagued with guilt and shame, the boy ran away from home. The father frantically searched throughout Spain, and finally in desperation, placed an ad in Madrid’s daily newspaper that read: “PACO, MEET AT [...]
CONTEMPT OR JOY TO THE WORLD “Do I like Christmas?... Me?” “Yeah, it’s the most wonderful time of the year, right? You know, ‘Joy to the World!’?” I beamed at the young lady sitting in my Bible study class. “Joy to the World? No, it’s more like ‘Contempt to the World’ in my family.” [...]
