A few years ago, I was having a discussion with someone about the Holy Spirit. They believed that unless you speak in tongues and are baptized in water, you will not make it to Heaven. That’s a misguided teaching for another day. I told them that my son, who was four years old at the time, spoke in tongues. They didn’t believe me. For some reason this person believed that we have to be at a certain age of understanding to have the Holy Spirit operating in our lives. In fact, John the Baptist was filled with the Holy Spirit in the womb! Unfortunately, most Pentecostals only access enough of the Holy Spirit to speak in tongues....

I enjoy gathering with friends in a corporate setting we call “church”, and though I am pro-Church (capital “C” to denote Body of Christ), I have a hard time being pro-church (lowercase “c” to denote the system of religion that has been created by man). The church in Canada and North America has become a big business with much noise and sideshows that take away from two things; 1. Fellowship, loving and growing relationships with other believers and 2. spreading that love outside the walls to the community in which we live. We cannot think we are serving God because we are serving a system. We can become...

As expected, with the aftermath of such a terrible earthquake in Japan, Christians are once again claiming that “the end is near”. Unfortunately, there are many Christians from every generation since that was written that has taken that out of context. Context: Mark 13 (alternate: Matthew 24) Jesus is prophesying about the destruction of the Temple in 70AD, not some other future event down the road. He goes on to say, “Do not be deceived or misled by others claiming to be the Messiah.” I don’t know about you, but I have not heard of anyone claiming to be the Messiah. This is due to the fact that He has already come and Jesus was only...