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Forced to Adapt or Choosing to Adapt?
We can let what’s happening around us mold us or we can be purposeful and seek God’s help in adapting to the changes that are going on around us and in us.
Memory and Hope
Memory and Hope are twin companions - at Christmas, as well as throughout our year - mingling the past with the future as we walk in the present.
Christmas in a Time of Numbers
At this particular time in history, we are inundated with numbers.
Over the past nine months, I have become exhausted by daily reports about the pandemic—new cases, deaths, hospitaliz...
House of Omeed
The House of Omeed (House of Hope) exists to inspire hope in the hearts of refugees and newcomers to Canada as they make the necessary huge adjustment to their lives now transplanted into a new, un...
Shaken
This Christmas, as our normal celebrations are shaken, may we press in to know the one who came as a wee babe, lived and died for us, and who now can hold us when all around is shaking.
The Existential Identity Crisis of Millennials
Dr. Gordon E. Carkner opens this sensitive discussion of Millennial angst from a compassionate stance. As a father of a Millennial and a UBC campus support person with Graduate Christian Union and ...
Protecting Democracy from the Outside
John Owen Lecture. Wednesday November 18, 2020 put on by the UBC Graduate & Faculty Christian Forum.
A Story of a Network & a Bible
A woman in Canada discovers an Arabic website that tells stories about Jesus Christ. Growing up in the Middle East in a Muslim dominant nation, she had never heard these stories.
She was ...
The Power of Community: Welcoming Refugees
A Canadian couple shares their story of welcoming Syrian refugees into their community.
Making the Most of Every Opportunity
It has been estimated that around 57% of people who come to Christ do so through the printed word. In today’s fast paced world we may only have a moment to spend with a person, so “making the most ...
Perseverance & Love: A Salvation Story
The story of a Muslim woman coming to faith in Jesus!