John Stackhouse
4 min read
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
2 min read
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
3 min read
"I Want to Be in Jerusalem": More from Walter Hilton
I’m very much enjoying David Jeffrey’s edition of Walter Hilton‘s 14C spiritual writings. Today I came across this parable and wanted you...
John Stackhouse
1 min read
In the Wake of All Saints Day: Whom Do You Nominate?
Who has been saintly in your life? Who has been an example of holiness, of goodness, of devotion, of serious purpose, of pure and loving...
John Stackhouse
1 min read
Suffering Is Normal—Now…
Regent Audio is making available my recent chapel talk on suffering as a free download here. I hope some of you will find it worthwhile....
John Stackhouse
3 min read
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
4 min read
Finding the Will of God–or–Not Getting Lost in the Forest
Last December my family and I moved to North Vancouver, to a house surrounded by trees on the shoulder of Mount Seymour. Settlement ends...
John Stackhouse
2 min read
Don't "Expect a Miracle"
Amid the many lessons people are drawing from the financial crisis we’re all enduring, one lesson emerges as particularly poignant: Don’t...
John Stackhouse
5 min read
Chris Tomlin's Worship Songs: We Have Got to Do Better
Since I have been complaining about loud music in church, I’ll stay in the groove and complain now about bad lyrics in church. And I have...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
Give God What He Wants
“Did you have a good Christmas?” Kids know how to interpret that question. It means, “How was your haul? Did you get everything you...
John Stackhouse
2 min read
Moving Decisions
My beloved and I have decided we ought to move away from our little house in the northeast corner of Vancouver across the Second Narrows...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
Disappearing (Musical) Languages?
Anthropologists and linguists have been decrying for years the disappearance of spoken languages around the world as globalization...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
The Shack 4: Some Celebrations
Having defended the genre of The Shack, and having offered some theological demurrals, let’s conclude with some delight in the good...
John Stackhouse
4 min read
The Shack 3: Theological Concerns (Part 2)
Let’s pick up where we left off, so . . . Fourth, The Shack skims briefly over the surface of theology of religions, raising the question...
John Stackhouse
4 min read
The Shack 2: Some Theological Concerns (Part 1)
The Shack dives into the deep end of the religious pool, swimming around in the Biggest Questions: the divine nature, the Trinity, the...
John Stackhouse
4 min read
The Shack 1: In Defense of Ideological Fiction
Regent College recently sponsored an evening with the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Shack. William Paul Young talked about the...
John Stackhouse
2 min read
Be Loved to Love
I’ve had occasion recently to reflect again upon the Apostle Paul’s great exposition of love in I Corinthians 13: Love is patient; love...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
"Let There Be Peace on Earth…"
As 2008 dawns in the midst of the Twelve Days of Christmas, how we long for peace: for shalom, that great Biblical word for the...
John Stackhouse
2 min read
What Do You Want for Christmas?
During my commute today, I listened to a lecture on CD by colleague Iain Provan, professor of Old Testament here at Regent, on the story...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
Great Preaching as a Great Present
I don’t easily find books for spiritual reading. So I’m always glad when someone recommends a book that he or she has found helpful. One...