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.” [...]
BACK FROM THE DEAD Early Friday morning, May 21st, 2021, when Guto Grings woke up with a stomach ache, he had no idea that he was about to die that day from a fatal heart attack. His wife, Maria, gave him some medicine, but it didn’t help. Two hours later, he said he [...]
THE PURE JOY OF GIVING “I remember that when I became an Adventist, I understood the basic truths; I knew the doctrines, but I also remember in 1979, we bought our first piece of land that we owned, and I was sitting in church, bored to tears,” Ron Hetland, a hardworking farmer from [...]
THE POWER OF A MOTHER'S PRAYER “At the age of 9, my parents separated and eventually got a divorce,” Joel Telis recalls. “My parents had been fighting constantly, and my sister and I felt trapped in the middle. I remember the sounds of my mother crying in her room. I had a lot [...]
CANADA-WIDE CALL TO PRAYER Everyone who has ever experienced the death of a loved one knows the feeling: the pain ebbs and flows, but the ache never goes away. God Himself knows for He lost His own Son to the cruel clutches of death. Though you have faith in the promise that one [...]
HEARING GOD'S VOICE We first called him Princess, until we found out he was a boy; hence his name became Prince. I figured he must be a boy because he was so intelligent. Just kidding… it was because he was a cockatiel, and only male cockatiels speak. Prince could mimic any voice he [...]
WHY IS THE WORLD AT WAR? The belief we have in the power of prayer is evidenced by the time we give it. One of my past pupils told me about an older lady in her church who she admired greatly, a woman of prayer who loves the Lord dearly and is always [...]
WHY IS THE WORLD AT WAR? We hear about war in the news, and various organizations tell us there are between 27 and 59 live global conflicts in the world right now. Of those worsening are the conflicts in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Yemen, Myanmar, Somalia, and Ethiopia. The Bible makes a bold statement: [...]
