Posted on January 11th, 2008 by Dr. Brian Rapske
Other Categories: Bible Study • Discipleship • Faith • Marriage
Tags: Church • God • Marriage • Prayer • Seminary
Over the Christmas holiday, Rita and I received a long distance call from our eldest daughter Trish in Aberdeen, Scotland . With great excitement she announced, "Pete and I are engaged!"
The journey to this moment of family joy has been nothing if not exciting and a challenge to faith.
From their very earliest years, we as [...]
Posted on October 19th, 2007 by Dr. Kenton Anderson
Other Categories: Evangelism • Faith • Preaching
Tags: Bible • Church • Culture • God • Gospel • Jesus • Leaders • Scripture • Seminary • Theology
J. P. Moreland of Talbot Seminary was the keynote speaker at this year’s meetings of the Evangelical Homiletics Society. He took the opportunity to offer a proposal for “apologetic preaching.” While such an approach is not new, Moreland seemed to suggest that apologetics could and should take a much higher place in our thinking about [...]
Posted on September 21st, 2007 by Dr. Brian Rapske
Other Categories: Christian Life • Church • Discipleship • Faith • Membership
Tags: Church • God • Scripture
My daughters, who’ve recently left home and struck out on their own, are searching for a home church. Sunday they tried out a young congregation meeting at a local movie theater. When we asked them, they described what had gone on that morning during the service. It was great! Earlier in their search they’d found [...]
Posted on September 12th, 2007 by Dr. Brian Rapske
Other Categories: Bible • Faith • Resurrection • Salvation • The Cross of Christ
Tags: Cross • God • Jesus
Yesterday was the sixth anniversary of 9/11. Many media pieces featured some aspect or other of the tragedy. Some were retrospectives of the event itself. Others covered planned commemorations. I watched one that discussed the engineering implications of 9/11 for high rise building safety.
Among them, two reports in particular struck me. One was a radio [...]
Posted on June 13th, 2007 by Dr. Brian Rapske
Other Categories: Faith
Tags: Church • God • Jesus • Scripture
Two weekends back, I reflected upon our church’s process in searching for a new lead pastor and youth minister (“Searching for the New Pastor” NBS Blog). The search culminated in a very busy weekend of meetings as both candidates were interviewed and interacted with us in a variety of contexts. It was exhausting and [...]
Posted on March 12th, 2007 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other Categories: Cultural Issues • Faith
Tags: Bible • God • Translation
During my last visit to Pakistan for Bible translation I was rechecking the Psalms with our main translator, GMA. A verse that warranted a correction in the translation was Psalm 135:5 that read in part, “I know that God is great.” GMA commented that this was "weak" because a statement of knowledge or information may [...]
Posted on March 2nd, 2007 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other Categories: Faith • Grace • Hell
Tags: Bible • Cross • God • Gospel • Jesus
A friend of mine discovered that he was suffering from what he termed a spiritual "Stockholm syndrome", the phenomenon of kidnapped victims bonding with their captors as they look desperately for mercy or an act of kindness. In his previous evangelical faith a dark shadow of hell made my friend hungry for any indication of [...]
Posted on February 20th, 2007 by Dr. Brian Rapske
Other Categories: Faith
Tags: Church • Jesus
I’m told that British Columbia, being part of the Pacific "ring of fire," has quite frequent earthquakes. Our province can experience as many as 30 or more quakes per month, which is pretty average. Of those quakes, five are magnitude three and only one is magnitude four. It’s a curiosity to me that [...]