Our denomination, The Canada Covenant, is pleased to offer a 2022 Lenten Reader! The publication is a compilation of reflections on Scripture for the season of Lent from members of the Evangelical Covenant Church of Canada.
The Lenten Reader will …
Bible
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Last fall we entered in to the adventure of reading the whole of the new Testament together as a church family. We used Bibles that had removed the verse and chapter numbers as …
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One of the foundational experiences for the Evangelical Covenant Church began in Sweden where small groups of people would gather together to read and discuss God’s Word. It was an important time of …
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Above is a video of the song that I mentioned in my Good Friday sermon. “On an American Spiritual” by David Holsinger. This arrangement, and the variations on the simple, haunting, and beautiful …
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I came across two quotes in my reading this week that served as really great reminders for me as I was preparing for this past Sunday’s sermon on the Presence of God. They …
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I mentioned this past Sunday, in my sermon, a computer game called “That Dragon, Cancer.” I talked about the creators Ryan and Amy Green and their son Joel. I realized, in talking with …
This past Sunday, the 4th, we began our series on 10 Healthy Missional Markers. Appropriately we began with the Centrality of the Word of God. We looked at familiar words from 2 Timothy 3:10-17. To help us understand and …
As we begin this week of prayer, heading in to a new year, and looking forward to the new things to come C.S. Lewis has some beautiful words for us about prayer…
Master, they say that when I seem
To …
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In the last part of this mini-series, pastor Keith …
In part two of this mini-series, pastor Keith explores how three of the most basic words in Christianity may soon no longer mean what we’ve always thought and believed.
“Gospel”
Most Christians today (and even a large …