Irma Janzen: Supporting People Who Live With Mental Illnesses
Mental Health Initiative 2018 by Irma Janzen People who live with a mental illness have been my teachers! I have learned a lot about life from what they model and what they [...]
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Dr. Stephen Farris: Don’t Put Family First, Give That Spot to God
by Dr. Stephen Farris Sometimes punctuation matters. “Family first?” is a question worth considering. “Family first” as a statement is a problem. Other than a phrase [...]
Kevin Wiebe: Responding to Spiritual Experiences
In light of the controversy around Dr. Phillip Cary’s article Hearing From God (Jan. 2018), the Board of Church Ministries asked Kevin Wiebe to adapt his essay from [...]
Dr. Hendrik van der Breggen: The Christian Faith: It Makes Sense!
by Dr. Hendrik van der Breggen A few years ago, advertisements on buses in London, Toronto, and other major cities stated this: THERE’S PROBABLY NO GOD. NOW STOP WORRYING [...]
Daniel Dacombe: Youth, Mental Illness, and the Role of the Church
Mental Health Initiative 2018 by Daniel Dacombe After working with youth for 15 years in ministry and then in social services, you get used to hearing a lot of the same [...]
Kevin Wiebe: 10 Reasons Why I Appreciate the EMC
by Pastor Kevin Wiebe In the culture in which we find ourselves it is popular to be critical, cynical, and to complain about the deficiencies we see in the world around us. [...]
Hearing From God — Update: LC cancelled.
by Dr. Phillip Cary Among evangelical Christians today, a great many people are anxious about how to hear God speak. Christians of an earlier era would have found this odd. [...]
Irma Janzen and Heidi Dirks: Mental Health in the EMC, Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going
Mental Health Initiative 2018 by Irma Janzen and Heidi Dirks Where We Have Been Psalm 13 begins with these words, “How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How [...]
EMC Ministerial Explores Unity: Cultivated, Not Fabricated
A Ministerial Retreat is one of the greatest ways to bless your church leadership. [...]
Council Embraces Change, Grapples With Reality
Statement of Faith, 2018 budget, conference restructuring supported [...]
