Cedarview Alliance church, 19th century poet Heinrich Hein is reported to have said as he died “God will forgive me, that’s his job”. * Unfortunately, the idea of taking God’s forgiveness for granted is not that unusual. The Bible brings us a far more complete picture of both his justice, and of his love – […]

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Regarding our leaders // February 11, 2024

Cedarview Alliance Church, I once went to a church conference where they repeated the statement ‘Everything rises or falls on leadership!’. I think they were trying to scare us or else promote the urgency of their material, or both. Well, it worked on me at the time. I listened intently to leaders and stories of […]

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Pray Continually // January 28, 2024

Cedarview Alliance Church, The peace of Christ be with you! This Sunday, January 28 (can you believe it?) we will continue with our “Life Under Pressure” series. The text is I Thessalonians 5:17 “Pray Continually”. This verse by itself, without the context of the book or the chapter, sounds impossible. Maybe it even sounds discouraging […]

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Cedarview Alliance Church, “Blessed be the name of the Lord”. There’s power in this phrase! Sometimes it is uttered because we have just experienced something wonderful, or an answer to prayer, or relief to a great sorrow – and in that case it returns our hearts to God with gratitude. But there’s power, great power, […]

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Cedarview Alliance Church, One of the passages of scripture frequently misunderstood is the verse in Isaiah 43 that says ‘Forget the former things, do not dwell on the past. See I am doing a new thing!”. It doesn’t mean we are to forget the past! When you read the whole passage (which remembers the famous […]

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Blessed Are You // May 7, 2023

Cedarview Alliance Church, All that wind and water can make us rightly anxious about things like damage and flooding! On the other hand, we know that this is part of a cycle that leads to eventual health for all the beauty sure to come later in the year. It seems to me that at times […]

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Good Soil // April 30, 2023

Cedarview Alliance Church, It is pretty to see the tulips poking out of gardens all around Ottawa! For a long time, those garden beds looked covered in snow or just plain empty, like nothing was happening. But wow, take a trip to Dow’s Lake in the next couple of weeks! You will see the same […]

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The Sower // April 23, 2023

Cedarview Alliance Church, I remember my grade 9 algebra teacher and how he prepared a lesson for us on ‘reciprocal of fractions’. He invited a student (let’s call him Alan) to come up to the front of the class, then he lifted him upside down and held him by his ankles in the air and […]

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