David Ross

John Calvin, Getty Images 51246861   As I am sure many of you have picked up on, a recent YouTube video by Mike Winger about the moral failures of Shawn Bolz and the ways in which the Bethel Redding leadership team were complicit in his abuses has recently exploded all over the internet. I appreciate voices like Winger's who are willing to stand up and be counted to expose the many abuses currently happening in the charismatic movement in North America. It is not an easy thing to say what...

The famous banner which I reference below is hung in the CTF sanctuary to the left of where I took this picture. It reads "To walk in God's love and to give it away to Toronto and the world." Happy New Year everyone! Claire and I had a wonderfully restful time over the holiday season. Thanks for checking in to another blog post. As those of you who have been following along will surely have noticed, my spiritual and theological journey over the last 12 or so years has involved some...

Getty Images 471739380 The task of every new generation of Christians is to sift what they have inherited from their forebears in a spirit of respect, humility, prayerfulness, discernment and critical thinking, so as to determine which parts of their theological heritage God wants them to maintain and which parts God wants them to jettison or at least rethink. This is essentially the purpose of this blog as a whole, focused specifically on the charismatic movement. As I have matured, grown...