• Accepted
    By: John Kerr   I was blessed with the most wonderful in-laws a guy could ask for. But I often wonder what they thought when Brenda brought me home to meet her family.  I looked more like I came off a rock band poster than the cover of a romance book! I had a big… Read more: Accepted

  • Calling for Justice is Calling for Jesus
    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… Continue reading

  • God Is Not Limited by Our Fears
    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.… Continue reading

  • Good Medicine
    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… Continue reading

  • Just a Little Tree
    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… Continue reading

  • This Year. Leap Year.
    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!… Continue reading

  • The Prince of Peace
    The Prince of Peace

    Challenge Central: a CBC devotional By: Roger Wood             For to us a child is born, to us a Son is given; and the government shall be upon His shoulder and His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6          Five years ago, and two weeks before… Continue reading