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Bob Hostetler When your faith is flagging, these eight words can reconnect you with God. Do you wish you had more faith? Less doubt? If you’re anything like me, you have my sympathy. In those moments of doubt your faith may flee, you may question nearly everything and feel as if you’re holding onto faith by a thread. And that’s exactly when prayer can seem harder than usual. We might wish for some kind of treatment or trick that will…

by Helen Jamieson (An article submitted to the January 2007 issue of Graceviews by our dear departed, fondly remembered friend and fellow congregant Helen Jamieson. I thought it especially appropriate given the times we live in.) A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package. “What food might this contain?” wondered the mouse. He was devastated to discover that it was a mousetrap.  Retreating to the barnyard, the mouse proclaimed…

Adapted from an article by Theodore Roosevelt, Ladies Home Journal, 1917.  Theodore Roosevelt (1858 – 1919) was the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909.  1. In this … world, a churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at their religious needs, is a community on the rapid downgrade.  2. Church work and church attendance mean the cultivation of the habit of feeling some responsibility for others… 3. There are enough holidays for most of…

God draws people to Himself in many ways; for me, He used YouTube, among many other things. My parents immigrated to Canada from China in 1999, and I was born the year after. Being new immigrants with the desire to integrate better into Canadian society and seeing the United Church helping the poor, they decided to join. We moved frequently as my dad sought better employment, and we shifted to attending Chinese Baptist churches. I could tell church people were…