Features – The Messenger

Dr. Harvey Plett: Great Significance in Obedience: ‘Your Will be Done on Earth as it is in Heaven’

June 14, 2019

The Lord’s Prayer 2019 By Dr. Harvey Plett Many of us memorized the Lord’s Prayer in grade school. The Manitoba Education Department prescribed daily Bible [...]

Our Daily Bread—And What About the Future?

June 11, 2019

The Lord’s Prayer 2019 By Kevin Wiebe Our culture is one that is full of differing diets: gluten-free, paleo, ketogenic—and that is just the beginning. Many of these [...]

Terry Smith: In Jesus of Nazareth, God is Revealed

April 18, 2019

By Terry M. Smith Prisons and slums, natural and human-made disasters and deaths, wars and other forms of suffering all illustrate that our world is far from what it should [...]

Kevin Wiebe: I Am the Weaker Brother

April 15, 2019

By Kevin Wiebe When you believe you are right about something, how do you behave? How do you treat those with whom you disagree? I’m not talking about issues of sin, here. [...]

Flo Friesen: Your Kingdom Come

April 9, 2019

The Lord’s Prayer 2019 by Flo Friesen I can still see and smell the setting where I first said the Lord’s Prayer. A two-room country school, oiled wooden floors, faded [...]

Lois Thiessen: Who Am I Now? A Real Missionary Question of Identity

April 1, 2019

By Lois Thiessen Does your job define you every moment of your life? Are you on duty when you’re shopping, on stage as you eat your supper, on trial for your kids’ [...]

Arlene Friesen: Paul, From Despair to Cross-Shaped Courage

March 26, 2019

By Professor Arlene Friesen Imagine getting an email from a friend saying something like this, “We’ve gone through some incredibly hard times lately. It has been so [...]

Ron Thiessen says, “Hallowed Be Your Name.”

February 13, 2019

The Lord’s Prayer 2019 By Pastor Ron Thiessen Prayer has always been a mystery to me. I think it was a mystery to the early disciples as well because they seemed baffled by [...]

Dr. Arden Thiessen: Our Father in Heaven

January 29, 2019

Editor’s Note: There will be a series on the Lord’s Prayer in 2019. This follows the Apostles’ Creed (2016), the Protestant (Radical) Reformation (2017), and the Mental [...]

James Regehr: Go Tell It On The Mountain!

December 24, 2018

by James Regehr What a joyful message filled with excitement and hope. Go tell it on the mountain that Jesus Christ is born! I can still remember, as if it were yesterday, [...]