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The Five Levels of Intimacy

First comes love…or sex? “First comes love, then comes marriage, then here they come with a baby carriage.” You may recognize this little rhythm my generation used to sing to embarrass each other.  Based on today’s culture the rhythm could go: “First comes sex, then comes living together, and the baby carriage could happen anytime or...

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How to Talk to the Broken Hearted
How to Talk to the Broken Hearted

Not sure why you are going through this personal tragedy? Searching for why God is doing this? Take our Life Lesson called "Built By Brokenness" and find some answers that you have been searching for. After losing our twins girls at 20 weeks gestation, my world completely fell apart. As I gingerly attempted to reintegrate my new, raw reality...

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The Forgiveness God Offers
The Forgiveness God Offers

This is part 1 of a 6 part series – The Forgiveness God Offers Do you sometimes find it difficult to believe that you have total  forgiveness for your sins in Jesus Christ? Intellectually you believe it, but how about deep within your heart? Imagine yourself in the crowd as this story takes place as recorded in the Book of Luke: Some...

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My Search for Truth
My Search for Truth

I was born in Montreal and raised in Vancouver, Canada. My parents were morally upright but non-religious. Our neighbors could also be described as non-religious. I did not know any Christians or serious followers of any other religion while I was growing up. Though my neighborhood was poor, its public schools were outstanding and its libraries...

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Re-learning the Promises of God
Re-learning the Promises of God

Are you walking the road of infertility or miscarriage? Share the journey with an online mentor. I am a mother,  but I don’t have a child to hug. I can’t brag about my baby’s first steps, the first day of school or graduation.  I have no photographs.  But I am a mother.  My children are in heaven. After only two months of “trying”...

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Unthinkable Loss: Miscarriage and Stillbirth
Unthinkable Loss: Miscarriage and Stillbirth

"We can't find a heartbeat. I'm sorry, your baby is gone." I couldn't believe what I was hearing - there obviously had been some crazy mistake. At first I thought they must be in the wrong room. I felt sorry for that poor woman next door – I wouldn't want to be in her shoes right now. Or maybe it was the ultrasound. These machines malfunction...

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New Beginnings
New Beginnings

There I was, alone in my tiny residence room, crying at 3am. Things like this just did not happen to me! I'm an educated, modern, rational person! How did my life come to this? First steps I grew up without any religious knowledge or experience. I adopted an atheist attitude, mostly because my friends were atheists. I wasn’t really sure of...

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Why Is There Evil and Suffering?
Why Is There Evil and Suffering?

This is part 1 to a 7 part series: Questions About God - Canadian philosopher Michael Horner responds to seven of the most commonly asked questions about God and Christianity. Question 1: Why is there evil and suffering? There is no question that the world is filled with an appalling amount of evil and suffering. We are impacted by this reality...

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