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Lloyd Janzen

Understanding Sanctification

We live in a time of widespread confusion over the doctrine of sanctification. What is it? How does it work? Is it something man does or...

Delten Ens

Putting On and Putting Off

Sanctification is a major theme of the New Testament. Just about every author, if not all, take the time to describe how a Christian...

Stephen Wiebe

The Role of the Church in Sanctification

And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Matthew 16:18...

Merlis Wiebe

Trials and Tribulations

…we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope…...

Trent Peters

The Purpose of Sanctification

One of the largest weakness in human society today is self-centeredness. It is evident everywhere. We even find it in places we least...

Daniel Klassen

The Worst Time In History

Both the first and second World Wars changed the theological landscape of American Christianity as much as they did the political...

Daniel Klassen

Remember the Rainbow During the Storm

A storm is a menacing thing. All you know of a storm before it arrives is what your imagination conjures up as you observe the dark,...

Daniel Klassen

How A Pandemic Blesses the 21st Century Church

When hard times hit us, we usually don’t think of it as a blessing. We want it gone. We want to be done with it and back to the good...

Daniel Klassen

Charles Spurgeon on Pandemics

From 1863 to 1875, the fourth cholera pandemic of the 19th Century occurred. It began in a south Asian province and travelled to the...

Daniel Klassen

Book Review: Life Together

Facing the rise of Nazi control over churches in Germany in the mid-1930s, Dietrich Bonhoeffer took charge of a small seminary to train...