by Amy Nelham | Feb 21, 2020 | CBC InTouch
What is your view of church, or even, the Church? As we continue our consideration of faithful living in a predominantly faithless culture in the light of 1 Peter, how we see ourselves and our mission is critically important. As Christianity is kicked to society’s...
by Amy Nelham | Feb 7, 2020 | CBC InTouch
When Dorothy arrives in Oz she says to faithful Toto: “I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” This cultural idiom has come to express the feeling of no longer being in a place that one knows or where one is comfortable; to be in a completely unfamiliar...
by Amy Nelham | Dec 13, 2019 | CBC InTouch
One of the most remarkable characteristics of Scripture is that it can be simultaneously simple to understand and inexhaustibly deep. For many centuries, Christians have particularly enjoyed this quote attributed to Gregory the Great—“Scripture is like a river again,...
by Amy Nelham | Dec 6, 2019 | CBC InTouch
In my younger days if Advent had asked me, “what do you think of me”, I would have dismissively said, “I don’t think much of you at all”. For one, I didn’t grow up in a Christian home, and didn’t come to faith in Christ until my late teens. Moreover, the churches I...
by Amy Nelham | Nov 22, 2019 | CBC InTouch
During the height of the cold war era a best-selling novel, On The Beach, examined the living of life at the end of the world, a world winding down due to the after effects of an accidental nuclear war. The book’s cover summary reads: In the Northern Hemisphere, the...
by Amy Nelham | Nov 8, 2019 | CBC InTouch
“Obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls” (1 Peter 1:9). One of the most memorable ways I have heard the grace of God illustrated is in the image of a teacher talking to his...
