August 3, 2018
by Rob Snyder
| Tags: Hope, Evangelism, Compassion, expectation
So, what is hope? Well, hope has to do with expectancy doesn’t it? If you are hoping for a raise at work or a good mark on
your test you have a hopeful expectancy that those things will come to pass. So, hope has a way of making us keep going in our lives with the hopeful expectation of a desired outcome. The problem is that with deceived minds, idolatrous hearts and ho...
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December 30, 2016
by Gavin Peacock
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Category:
Life Application
| Tags: Advent, Repent, Trust, Hope
We are now in the Advent season. Advent means “coming”, and for Christians we primarily celebrate the first coming of Christ: the incarnation of the Son of God ...
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October 14, 2016
by Paul Toews
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Category:
Life Application
| Tags: Hope, Christ, Christian Life, Glory of God
We live in a dark world, but we bear the light of Christ. His light has dawned in our hearts, but will dawn one day in full consummation. ...
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October 7, 2016
by Paul Toews
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Category:
Devotionals
| Tags: Hope, watchman, viligant, lamp, morning star
"I wait for the Lord, and in his word I hope; my soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning." (Psalm 130:6)
I thought that this month I would select some of my favorite passages of scripture to do a meditation on. Psalm 130 is one of my favorite psalms. In it the psalmist cries out to the Lord with pleas for mercy (vs. 1...
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July 15, 2016
by Paul Toews
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Category:
Devotionals
| Tags: Faith, Glory, Hope, Meditation
In scripture we read that Christ is the image of God (2 Cor. 4:4). He makes the invisible God visible (Col. 1:15). God is glorious and in beholding Christ we behold that glory. In Christ, God himself, his Being and the mystery of his existence in three distinct persons, was gloriously revealed to believers, and the light of the knowledge of these truths dispelled all those...
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February 14, 2016
by Jeff Jones
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Category:
The Gospel
| Tags: Hope, Sovereignty, Theodicy, Tragedy
Clint Humfrey, our lead pastor, wrote a great article in light of a recent Calgary tragedy at TheRebel.media on why Christians can keep faith in a fallen, dangerous world....
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May 15, 2015
by Jeff Jones
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Category:
Life Application
| Tags: Culture, doctrine, Hope, remnant, world
Over the past couple hundred years, living as an evangelical Christian in the West has been relatively easy, compared to the experience of many of our brothers and sisters throughout history, or even in other parts of the world. However, indications in our culture suggest that this time of respite for the Church in the West may be coming to an end. Therefore, my motivation...
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July 6, 2013
by Jeff Jones
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Category:
Life Application
| Tags: Marriage, alberta floods, #abflood, #yycflood, Gospel, disaster, Hope, wedding
Disasters rarely occur at a time of convenience, and the recent flooding that struck Southern Alberta was no different. Lives were lost; billions of dollars worth of property was destroyed; uncounted millions in economic damage was done. Compared to the losses of the bereaved and the newly homeless, it seems trivial to discuss the inconveniences that the flooding caused fo...
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December 21, 2011
by Jeff Jones
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Category:
The Gospel
| Tags: God, Christmas, Christ, Sin, life, incarnation, Hope
At Christmas, we celebrate the miracle of the Incarnation: the God of heaven and earth, the Lord of Hosts, Creator of all things, took on flesh. The Son of the Most High left behind the glories of heaven, leaving behind his exalted place with the Father, and descended to the earth to live among us....
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October 7, 2011
by Jeff Jones
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Category:
Current Events
| Tags: steve jobs, Death, God, fear, Hope, life
On Wednesday night, the news broke that Steve Jobs, the founder and former CEO of Apple, had passed away from pancreatic cancer. ...
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