People may care about your outwards appearance, but God cares about your heart.
Non-denominational Christian Church
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The city of Ottawa has decided to close all their public facilities for the next 3 weeks. The community centre has not been exempted from that decision. Therefore with a lot of regret we will be live-streaming our next few services until the beginning of April.
I would like to share with you my thoughts and ideas about the COVID-19 situation that has become a dominant topic in our news over the past few weeks.
Another winter upon us and our local Christian radio station, CHRI Radio, has started their Pyjama Drive.
This month, the month of March, the global community will celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8th. A day designated to celebrate the strength, diversity, global achievements of women and so much more. This year the international theme is #balanceforbetter. For the last several years our sisterhood of churches around the world have celebrated this…
On December 25, Christians around the world will gather to celebrate Jesus’ birth. Joyful carols, special liturgies, brightly wrapped gifts, festive foods—these all characterize the feast today, at least in the northern hemisphere. But just how did the Christmas festival originate? How did December 25 come to be associated with Jesus’ birthday? The Bible offers…
In just the last 24 hours, since the United States Supreme Court handed down their historic decision allowing gay marriage to be legal in all 50 states, my inbox has been inundated with emails from panicked Christians from U.S. churches looking for guidance on this issue.
There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist (except maybe in Japan) religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the Population Reference Bureau). At an average (census)…
Let’s talk about it. This is a great opportunity to connect with people, to get them to open up, to meet them authentically and to minister to them in a place where it hurts.
Here are a podcast and notes on Tattoos & Piercings (37 minutes). Biblical passages Leviticus 19:28 — but examine the context (the entire chapter) New Testament principles Relating to others — 1 Corinthians 9 Avoiding worldliness — 1 Corinthians 5-6 Not insisting on one”s rights; being willing to be sensitive to one”s brothers — 1 Corinthians 8:1-11:1…