God's Holy Days
"These are the feasts of the Lord, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at their appointed times." (Leviticus 23:4, NKJV)
Is it possible to know what the future holds? The Creator of mankind has an incredible plan for us, and He reveals it through an annual cycle of festivals described in the Scriptures.
A Harvest Most Abundant
This past winter seemed especially long. One person quipped that they were looking forward to the end of win...
An Invitation Like No Other
Do you remember the first invitation you ever received? Perhaps you were still in grade school and you were g...
Betrayed by a Friend
One of the best known accounts in the Bible is that of Judas’ betrayal of Jesus Christ. Jesus was destined to s...
Christian Paradoxes
We live in a very interesting age. Through human reason and inventions, we have mobile homes that don’t move...
Citizenship
Some time ago, I filled in the necessary forms to apply for Canadian citizenship. It has been an interesting...
Count Fifty
Mortal man faces an insurmountable obstacle in his multifarious attempts to understand who or what God is,...
Counting
“One, two, three, four . . . . Here I come ready or not!” Most of us have played the childhood game of Hide and See...
Dominion of Canada
In Canada, July 1 is celebrated as Canada Day. As many will remember, there was a time when July 1 was not known...
Don't Bite Your Tongue
I have a problem. It’s not until you try to fix a problem that you realize how deep the issue runs and how hard it...
Feasting With a Focus
During the depths of a long, arduous winter, one of my sources of hope is a good quality colour seed catalogue...
Fifty Days and Counting
Prior to returning to Heaven, Jesus instructed His followers not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for t...
Gethsemane
Very few events have been so carefully documented as those occurring in the Garden of Gethsemane almost 2,0...
God’s Fall Feasts
Four of the seven annual Holy Days that God calls “My feasts” (Leviticus 23:2) fall closely together in the s...
God’s Timetable
We can know that this universe has been unfolding for a long time and that the earth has undergone dramatic ch...
Gossip: A Tool of the Devil
Can someone in God's church ever become a pawn in the hands of the devil?Have you ever allowed Satan to influe...
Grandma’s Lectures
Grandma was only 17 when she married my grandfather who was 31. That formed the background for many lectures...
In Favour With God and Man
Luke records that Jesus and His family traveled to Jerusalem each year for the Feast of the Passover. Jesus w...
Less Than Perfect
A short time ago I had a conversation with one of my sons, who is a pathologist. I expressed a concern about the...
Lessons From Footwashing
As a young boy I lived in an isolated forestry village. Our home had neither running water nor electricity. A...
Man’s Duties in God’s Plan
What is the Feast of Unleavened Bread? How do we keep these feast days? What is their significance to mankind...
Our Best Feast Ever?
Just a few weeks ago, we observed the Feast of Tabernacles. For some, it was at the local Feast site. Some of us...
Pentecost and the Law
Pentecost. The Feast of Firstfruits. Feast of Weeks. There are many beautiful applications to this Feast....
Search and Examine
Have you ever searched for something you knew you had, but just could not discover where it was hiding? Sever...
The Better Travel Plan
During the long winter months we come across many advertisements urging us to take a winter vacation in a war...
The Bread of Affliction
Some of the foods many of us enjoy today were those we had to acquire a taste for. Do you remember the first time...
The Feast of Pentecost
To reveal His plan for mankind, God chose annual Sabbaths (Holy Days) based on the harvest seasons in Palest...
The Firstfruits to God
Any parent will tell you that it is an unforgettable experience to have the first-born child. Nothing compa...
The Gift of Pentecost
What is the greatest gift God could ever bestow on the human race? If you asked a dozen people, the chances are...
The Joy of Church
Do you remember your first Feast of Tabernacles? Mine was 1966 in Squaw Valley, California. What a magnific...
The Last Enemy
“In the midst of life we are in death” goes one expression. Another, in a lighter vein, claims, “There’s noth...
The Problem With Pride
Fourteen years into King Hezekiah’s reign in Judah, invading troops of an Assyrian king named Sennacherib...
The Renewal of Spring
Do you remember the first set of plans you ever saw? Do you remember the first set of plans you ever had in your h...
The Scarlet Cord
Two men set out on a dangerous assignment. It was a secret spy mission involving a trek of 2-3 days. They were t...
The Spirit of Pentecost
The Spirit of God, or Holy Spirit, is one of the most basic and important themes to be found throughout God’s W...
The Trumpet Shall Sound
For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, with the trump o...
The Ultimate Sacrifice
Astronauts returning from a space mission have often commented on the incredible beauty of our planet as vi...
Trees of Righteousness
The Bible has a fair amount to say about trees. It begins with the two trees in the Garden of Eden and ends with t...
True Success
What have the “seven laws of success” to do with the Feast of Tabernacles?As many will recall, many years ago...
Why Remove Sandals?
When God called to Moses to approach His appearance in the ‘burning bush,’ the first thing God told him was to...
Wonders, Miracles & Blessings
It came to mind that I should share some of the wonders, miracles and blessings God has worked in the lives of m...
Your Crown
A few Feasts ago, one of the crafts associated with Bible lessons for children was to make a crown. That day th...
