What Happened in Canada
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“Our election up here is over and the guys I voted for lost …. What exactly happened to bring the Liberal party from a 16% approval rating a few months ago to 43.7% of the total vote on election day?” - Don Johnson
As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“Our election up here is over and the guys I voted for lost …. What exactly happened to bring the Liberal party from a 16% approval rating a few months ago to 43.7% of the total vote on election day?” - Don Johnson
“there is one key contribution that Christians alone can make to politics: prayer. While I’ll grant that people of any faith can pray and perhaps even do pray for the political process, only Christians can pray and be heard.” - Challies
“In his follow-up post, Warren wrote, ‘I apologize. I wrote poorly. I don’t believe Jesus was a centrist. He stands far above it all. “My kingdom is not of this world…” Jn.18:36.’” - CLeaders
“In 1967, my mother was 10 years old. By that time, she had for about a year been taking a city bus alone, from her residential neighborhood to Philadelphia’s city center…. had also been babysitting her two younger siblings—alone in the house, not as a mother’s helper—from the age of seven.” - L&L
What a stem winder! Who expected the 2024 elections to turn out this way, but here we are, four weeks later, wondering what happened, why it happened and what it means for the future? Everyone has his own opinions, and mine are no better than yours, but perhaps I may be allowed to express a few thoughts on the matter. I avoided public endorsements before the election, but now that it’s over, I believe it is appropriate to express a few personal observations.
“In nearly half of congregations—45%—their leaders thought most participants didn’t share the same political views, making politics a sometimes treacherous topic.” - RNS
“Here’s a look back at 2024 through 14 of our most striking research findings. These are just a small slice of the Center’s many research publications from this year.” - Pew
“ ‘Our people were elated, for the most part, over the election results,’ said Robert Jeffress, a Southern Baptist pastor.” - RNS
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The fourth characteristic that God emphasizes about himself is that he is “abounding in lovingkindness.”
If you’ll compare the different ways that last word is translated, you find that it has a broad range of meaning and significant theological depth—
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