John Stackhouse
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Everybody’s Welcome at Christmas
According to friend Gerry Bowler (that’s Prof. Gerald Q. Bowler, PhD [London] to you, bub) in his masterful Encyclopedia of...
John Stackhouse
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Honour Roll for Canada Day
Canadians have made it big elsewhere. Sometimes, in fact, talented Canadians don’t make it big here at home until they have made it big...
John Stackhouse
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Holy Week Posts
Over the last few years, I’ve posted several reflections pertinent to Holy Week. Some of you (especially those of you preparing sermons!)...
John Stackhouse
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What Christmas Is All About, Charlie Brown
The Van Pelt family has taught more people about the true meaning of Christmas than any preacher you can name, including probably the...
John Stackhouse
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Top Christmas Albums (Reprise)
Last year I published this post and readers enjoyed adding to (and correcting) this list. Since that time, Eldest Son Trevor has put our...
John Stackhouse
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If You Are Having a Bad Friday…
Please, if you can and will, hear the Word of the Lord: Let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us...
John Stackhouse
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Holy Week Posts
Over the last few years, I’ve posted several reflections pertinent to Holy Week. Some of you (especially those of you preparing sermons!)...
John Stackhouse
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Gospel Coalition, Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood Reveal Huge Prank
(AP) Deerfield, Illinois — Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW) co-founders D. A. Carson and John Piper revealed today in a...
John Stackhouse
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Thanks for Reading!
As 2011 gives way to 2012, I want to raise a glass of Veuve Clicquot (I’m saving the Dom for my birthday in a week) to toast you, my...
John Stackhouse
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As St. Nicholas Would Agree, So Much More and Better
Friend Dennis Danielson, professor of English at the University of British Columbia, sent along this passage from the seventeenth-century...
John Stackhouse
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How the Baby Protects Us
There is nothing like truth to extinguish pride: Here is the way things really are. Here is the way I really am. This is what really...
John Stackhouse
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Top Ten Christmas Albums
Just in time for Christmas shopping, and just in case you’ve missed them, here are some suggestions from the World’s Largest Family...
John Stackhouse
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This Year's (Last Year's) Christmas Album
I am ashamed to say that it has taken me a whole year to get to Spencer Capier’s superb Christmas album: Spencer is known to many as a...
John Stackhouse
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Why Didn't God Just…?
Many of us wonder, particularly in the face of evil, why an omnipotent God didn’t just do things differently–you know, the way you and I...
John Stackhouse
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Holy Weekend Thoughts
Over the last few years, I’ve offered readers some musings on Good Friday and Easter. For those who missed them the first time ’round: On...
John Stackhouse
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A Palm Sunday Thought
Lo, your King comes to you, mighty and imposing, if also in need of protection, in an armoured limousine surrounded by bodyguards, police...
John Stackhouse
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International Women's Day: Who Needs It?
Let’s be honest: Aren’t we all just fed up with women moaning about how they’re not treated properly, how they’re still victims, how they...
John Stackhouse
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"Happy Holidays" Instead of "Merry Christmas"?
Yes, I generally (not always, but mostly) wish people “Happy Holidays” rather than “Merry Christmas” this time of year. Here, on the...
John Stackhouse
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O Come, Let Us Adore Him–If We Can Stand It
I love the sights of Christmas. My beloved spends considerable time and skill “Christmasing” our home and there is something beautiful to...
John Stackhouse
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A Superb New Christmas CD: Bob Bennett's "Christmastide"
Last Christmastime I became particularly enamored of Chris Botti’s album December. We own dozens of jazz Christmas CDs and Botti’s stands...