I’ve had many people ask me my thoughts on the controversial Bill C-9 which became law a few months ago in Canada. I've avoided commenting on it because I don’t usually speak about politics. But since the question has popped up several times in several places I thought I would address it. This is about as much political talk as you will ever get from me. So here it is. For those who don’t know Bill C-9 has been labelled the Combating Hate Act. It was designed to strengthen ex

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I will not be preaching on John 7:53-8:11, the story about the adulterous woman. The reason I will not preach these verses is that I do not believe that they were written by the Apostle John and therefore are not part of his Gospel. This means that this passage is not inspired, infallible, inerrant and authoritative Scripture and should not be preached or taught as God’s Word. I do not take this decision lightly. For to make a mistake ei

In his 1943 lectures and subsequent book (published in 1944 and reprinted many times) The Abolition of Man C. S. Lewis recalls the observation of a waterfall recorded in a contemporary English grammar which he calls “The Green Book” which is authored by “Gaius” and “Titius.” (He was referring to a real grammar used in English schools but desired to disassociate the authors from his critique by using the imaginary title and pseudonyms for the authors.) In this section of the f

NOTE: I have invited the contributions of Stu Reimer to write in this space on the issues of marriage and family. If you follow CRC at all you will know Stu to be my frequent substitute in the pulpit and I am looking forward to his work as my substitute from time to time in this space. Expect his blogs to appear every 6 weeks or so. Stu is no expert on the things on which I have asked him to write (Just ask his wife and children), but he is a committed reformed Christian and