Bubba was bragging to his boss one day. "You know, I know everyone there is to know. Just name someone, anyone, and I know them." Tired of his boasting, his boss called his bluff. "Ok, Bubba, how about Tom Cruise?" "Sure, yes, Tom and I are old friends, and I can...
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Ignite Prayer Canada: A Vision for Nationwide Local Houses of Prayer
By Roger Helland courtesy Light Magazine Imagine 1,000 churches across Canada radiant with God’s electrifying presence. Imagine continual fires burning on spiritual altars with faith-filled and united prayer, Scripture-fed and Spirit-led, fixated on God’s rule and...
“Take Me For A Spin” The Top 20 Christian Music Albums for The Autumn 2024
This Month’s iTunes Top 20 Christian & Gospel Christmas Recording Featuring SEVEN New Releases!! http://www.popvortex.com/music/charts/top-christian-gospel-albums.php Call Creation Bookstore at 519-659-2610 to check on availability. This Month’s #1 | New...
May 2025 – 60th Annual National Prayer Breakfast
You are warmly invited to join us for the 60th Annual National Prayer Breakfast, a time of reflection, fellowship, and unity in prayer. This special event will take place on May 6th, 2025, in our nation's capital. As the longest running Parliamentary National Prayer...
A New Chapter for Habitat for Humanity Heartland Ontario: Welcoming Susan Fahner as CEO on World Habitat Day 2024
Susan Fahner will join Habitat for Humanity Heartland Ontario as the new CEO, starting on October 7, 2024, during World Habitat Day! Susan brings an extensive background in social enterprise, organizational development, facilitation and operational oversight in the...
BookMark™ – Discovering Daniel: Finding Our Hope in God’s Prophetic Plan Amid Global Chaos
A presentation of latest Christian books to hit the stores Discovering Daniel: Finding Our Hope in God’s Prophetic Plan Amid Global Chaos Genre: Christian – Non-Fiction Author: Amir Tsarfati & Dr. Rick Yohn Publishing Date: May 7, 2024 Availability in...
The Symbolism of It All
By Helena Smrcek Back in July, I watched the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremonies, as did the other 28.6 million people around the world. As much as I initially thought I wouldn’t even bother to comment, not willing to give the spectacle any additional bites of...
Reel Review – Average Joe
Average Joe Rating: PG-13 Genre: Biography/History, Christian, Drama, Sports Directed by: Harold Cronk Written by:: Stephanie Katz Release Date Theater: October 10, 2024 Cast: Eric Close as Joe Kennedy; Amy Acker as Denise Kennedy; Austin Woods as Joe Kennedy, 20s;...
Homelessness in London – A Discussion with Those in the Know
Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash According to the City of London website, the City maintains a comprehensive list called a “By-Name List”, of every person in the community actively experiencing homelessness. Using information collected and shared with their consent,...
Still Christian(?): What Canadian Christians Actually Believe
Photo credit: Djordje Vukojicic-Unsplash Cardus, in collaboration with the Angus Reid Institute, conducted a survey in February 2024 to find out what Canadians who identify as Evangelical, Catholic, and mainline Protestant believe. What do Canadian Christians believe...
Growing in Thankfulness
By Melanie Stevenson Fall isn’t my favorite time of year. I much prefer hot, hazy mid-summer days and adore my garden at peak performance showing off its full glory. I relish a few lazy minutes of reading on the porch, the birds’ chorus adding to the unfolding beauty,...
Barry Slaunewhite Steps Down as Executive Director of the CCNL
The Christian Churches Network of London (CCNL) has announced that, after much reflection, Barry Slaunewhite has decided to resign from his position as the Executive Director of the CCNL. Reverend Garry Fess will serve as the interim Executive Director. Reverend Fess...
Gather 25: A 25 Hour Global Prayer Event
One ‘Yes’ Can Change Everything! Are you in? Gather 25 invites you to join in this GLOBAL gathering, on March 1st 2025, for 25 hours of prayer, praise, worship---expecting God’s Presence in us and through us to change our hearts, change our passions, and more than...
Learning to Take Our Thoughts Captive
They say we are the sum of our thoughts. The average person has over 60,000 thoughts per day. If that wasn't astonishing enough, of this vast number of thoughts, 75% are negative, and 95% are repetitive. It isn't hard to understand that our thoughts are powerful and...
A Prayer for Peace
Photo by Guilherme Gomes Dos Santos on Unsplash Courtesy; Crossroads Everyone is in search of peace. Blaise Pascal says “There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made know through...
Three 3 Sisters Sing ‘Gloria – Angels We Have Heard On High’
These sisters of Hinge Point sing praises to worship the Lord Jesus with a rendition of ‘Gloria -Angels We Have Heard on High.’ The origin of Angels We Have Heard on High.’ "Angels We Have Heard on High" is a Christmas carol to the hymn tune "Gloria" from a...
25 Christmas Jokes You Can Tell Kids
What do you call a greedy elf? Elfish. Which of Santa’s reindeer has bad manners? Rude-alph! What is a skunk’s favorite Christmas song? Jingle smells! What name did Santa give his dog? Santa Paws! Where do snowmen keep money? In a snow bank. What’s the best thing to...
You Aren’t the Sum of Your Mistakes
By Melanie Stevenson Maybe you’ve made a few mistakes in life. Perhaps your past has moved in like an unwelcome guest. Maybe condemnation is ransacking your thoughts—a steady stream of fault-finding reminders. Or you’re living under critical words spoken to you in...
REEL REVIEW – Mufasa: The Lion King
Mufasa: The Lion King Rating: PG Genre: Action/Adventure, Animation, Drama, Musical Directed by: Barry Jenkins Written by: Jeff Nathanson (screenplay) Based off of the characters by: Linda Woolverton...
Interpersonal Relationships in a Scrambled World
An Interview with Dr. Terence C. Young, Senior Consultant, CREST Leadership Presenter & Facilitator, Creston B.C. By Nancy Kingdon The greatest investment in yourself and your future that you can make is to look for two or three people you feel you can trust and...
Little Angel Steals the Spotlight During Church Nativity Play
Courtesy: FaithPot A Christmas nativity play takes an unexpected turn as a little angel steals the show with a surprise dance. The Christmas nativity play at church takes us back to sweet memories of our childhood. Many of us remember the excitement of putting on...
A Message from the Director of London Pregnancy & Family Support Centre
It's that time again, to catch you up, on all that has been happening at the LPFSC in these last six months. We put out two newsletters a year, our spring/summer, and this one our fall/winter one. I know you are going to enjoy reading through this newsletter, hearing...
THE DRAGON’S PROPHECY – Israel, The Dark Resurrection, and the End of Days
BOOK MARK™ A presentation of latest Christian books to hit the stores. Title: THE DRAGON’S PROPHECY – Israel, The Dark Resurrection, and the End of Days Genre: Christian – Non-Fiction Author: Jonathan Cahn Publishing Date: September 3,...
Can You Smell the Revival?
Photo by Janay Peters on Unsplash By Helena Smrcek Every season has a very specific smell at our farm. As fall slowly transitions to winter, the scent of frosty leaves fills the air every morning, only to give way to the acrid smell of woodstoves. When the crips air...
Love Came Down
Photo: Al Elmes - Unsplash By Melanie Stevenson We love because He first loved us. ~ 1 John 4:19 It started long before you or I was born – before humanity ever existed – this love that swings the door wide to invite us in. It is a vulnerable baby in a manger. A...
Take Me For A Spin” Some Old – Some New 20 Christian Christmas Music Albums
iTunes Presents 20 Christian & Gospel Christmas Recording Check with Creation Bookstore at 519-659-to find out what they have in stock in Christmas music by Christian Artists #1 Hallelujah! It's Christmas! Phil Wickham Tracks / Songs: 15 Genre: Christian &...
Four Gifts for Christmas
Courtesy Christian Churches Network of London (CCNL) Remember when you were a little kid and people asked what you wanted for Christmas. Maybe you went through the Eatons’ or Sears’ Christmas catalogue again and again, cutting out pictures of numerous toys....
Remembering Sharon Rose Slauenwhite
Sharon Rose Slauenwhite went to be with her Lord after a brief illness with her family by her side at Victoria Hospital in London, Ontario on May 27th, 2024. Cherished wife of Barry Slauenwhite for 52 years. Loving mother of Krista and Heather. Adored Nana of Mariah...
Today’s Revelation Really, a Bear?
Photo by Geoff Brooks on Unsplash Last week was absolutely amazing for this lowly writer. Three friends and I embarked on a long road trip to the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference in North Carolina. We used the time in the car to discuss new ideas,...
Dispelling the Dark
Photo by Rajesh Ram on Unsplash Have you ever been troubled by doubts? We could easily insert the word dark in place of doubt. When I doubt my circumstances, myself, or God, it's a lot like stumbling around in the dark. I have difficulty seeing where I'm going, my...
Adjusting to New Realities
By SEND International During the last 29 years, Ukrainian professors and SEND missionaries have taught and trained the next generation of pastors and ministry leaders at Kyiv Theological Seminary (KTS). The need to equip believers has not changed in the last two...
Make Him Known
There has been a huge increase in the number of people reading several online articles I have written over the last five months! This escalation began with the publication of 'Impossible breakthrough' in late January and has continued with the circulation of four more...
Courage For Freedom Welcomes Summer Breeze And New Guests to Courage House!
The Courage For Freedom Team is hard at work preparing new bedding, clothes, and meals for deserving girls exiting after being victimized by human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Each girl: unique, valued, and treated with dignity as an individual. What is going...
Three Essentials for Developing & Fulfilling a Vision
Photo credit: Paul Skorupskas on Unsplash Vision is one of the most important defining characteristics of effective leadership. A valuable leadership vision - “one that focuses action, provides direction, and inspires your stakeholders in all parts of life to move in...
Calling All Girls (6 through12) – Come to Yakira!
On behalf of the Yakira committee we at Christian Life in London, want to share news about this very exciting Girl’s Event that is happening for a second year in London on Saturday, October 5, 2024 at Gateway Church. The event is called Yakira, which in Hebrew means...
The Organist
Pastor Gary was preoccupied with thoughts of how he was going to, at the end of the worship service, ask the congregation to come up with more money than they were expecting for repairs to the church building. Therefore, he was annoyed to find that the regular...
BookMark – Living in the Daze of Deception: How to Discern Truth from Culture’s Lies
A review of the latest Christian books to hit the stores.
Reel Review – Fly Me to the Moon
Fly Me to the Moon Rating: PG-13 Genre: Comedy / Romance Directed by: Greg Berlanti Story by: Bill Kirstein, Keenan Flynn Release Date Theater: July 12, 2024 Cast: Scarlett Johansson as Kelly Jones; Channing Tatum as Cole Davis; Woody Harrelson as Moe Berkus; Ray...
“Take Me For A Spin” The Top 20 Christian Music Albums for Summer 2024
This Month’s iTunes Top 20 Christian & Gospel Christmas Recording Featuring TWO New Releases!! http://www.popvortex.com/music/charts/top-christian-gospel-albums.php Call Creation Bookstore at 519-659-2610 to check on availability. This Month’s #1 | Last Month this...
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