February 2009 | Insight For Living Canada

INSIGHTS MAGAZINE CANADA

No Time to Remain Silent

by Chuck Swindoll

I’m a Texan—born and bred. And for most of my younger years, I believed the South hadn’t actually lost the American Civil War; they just “ran out of time and ammunition.” It wasn’t until my junior year in high school, sitting in an American History class, that the truth dawned on me—the South had truly lost the war. Can you believe it took that long for me to discover the truth?

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Ed's Last Chance

by Phil Callaway

It wasn't so long ago that Christmas sneaked up on us, warming our hearts, lifting our spirits and snitching our wallets. This past December I asked my wife, "What do we get for the person who has everything?"

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Was Jesus a Cannibal?

by Darren Malin

Jesus was a drunkard and a glutton. Most people during Jesus’s day would have heard this rumour, among others, as a way to describe Jesus. Scripture reveals that Jesus chose the least of favourable places to spend his time. In Luke 7:34 we read, “The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and “sinners.”‘(NIV) What was it about Jesus that attracted the outcasts, the sceptics, the sinners? Jesus demonstrated a secret ministry weapon available to us all: Personal attention to people.

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The Sceptic’s Journey

by Steve Johnson

One night a wife found her husband standing over their baby’s crib. Silently she watched him. As he stood looking down at the sleeping infant, she saw on his face a mixture of emotions: disbelief, doubt, scepticism. Touched by this unusual display and the deep emotions it aroused, with eyes glistening she slipped her arm around her husband. “A penny for your thoughts,” she said. “It’s amazing!” He replied. “I just can’t see how anybody can make a crib like that for only $46.50.” It just goes to show there is a little sceptic in all of us!

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Rwanda Reflections

by Ashley Simpson

My experience in Rwanda will always be remembered as a time of great personal change. In 20 short days I was taken out of my comfort zone and impacted for a lifetime. As I left Canada, I pictured myself helping and encouraging those who endured the 1994 genocide when one million people were murdered in only one hundred days. But the sudden reality that I would be the one encouraged and loved hit me as soon as I arrived. In an attempt to capture my experiences and wrestle with some of my deep thoughts and sudden realizations, I kept a journal.

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How to Stay Young

by Chuck Swindoll

Here are a couple of tips on keeping the mind young, keeping it fresh, keeping it developed Read more and watch less television Books make us think. You should be reading two, three, five, six books a year just to keep the mind alive, deliberately in various fields, outside the realm of religion, along with your reading in the realm of spiritual things. Keep fresh. Keep in touch. Watch the New York best-seller list. Read a few of those. Talk to people who read.

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