Tag: devotional

Calling for Justice is Calling for Jesus

Challenge Central: a CBC devotional By: Pastor Lars Janssen             Our world calls out for justice, and rightly so. Have you heard the cry? In Canada, it sounds like slogans such as Every Child Matters. It sounds like our govern­ment’s ongoing conversation with our indigenous peoples about truth and reconciliation. It sounds like calling out against […]

God Is Not Limited by Our Fears

Challenge Central: a CBC devotional By: Rebecca Feere                       Over the past few days, I have been reflecting on the 2023 Christmas season. This past Christmas season, I claimed a verse that is part of the Biblical Christmas narrative. It’s a verse you rarely, if ever, find on Christmas cards or in carols. […]

Good Medicine

Challenge Central: a CBC devotional By: Casey Korstanje                      I missed Majors last week, in the fullest sense of the word.          I was unable to attend, and I was stuck doing something unpleasant instead of meeting friends at the church for lunch and fellowship.          I was cheered later to learn that people had […]

Just a Little Tree

Challenge Central: a CBC devotional By: Laurie Korstanje                      What stands 12 inches tall, is made out of ceramic, has a light dusting of snow, and twinkling lights?          You might say a ceramic Christmas tree, I say memories.          I opened a box on Christmas day, a gift from my sweetheart. What was inside made […]

This Year. Leap Year.

Challenge Central: a CBC devotional By: Barbara Rogelstad            Welcome to 2024! This year we are gifted with one day more than last year. I still remember the rhyme I memorized in elementary school. It goes like this:  Thirty days has September, April, June, and November. All the rest have thirty-one. But February’s really great! […]