The Library of Parliament in Canada is the only part of the building that survived the great fire of 1916 – and that dates back to the Victorian Era. The library is a very striking room—a great open rotunda with galleries spanning the circumference.

It is not too difficult to affirm the goodness of God when all is going well—when you gaze into the eyes of your future spouse or when you sit by a lake on a glorious summer day.  But it is a bit more difficult to extol the goodness of God during the storms of life--when your spouse betrays you, when your boss fires you, or when your doctor calls with life-altering medical news.

We live in a rapidly changing world.  Technology is constantly advancing.  Political leadership is continually changing hands.  Cultural trends are always in flux.  Even our physical bodies change.

In Hebrews 12, we are given a vivid picture of the Christian life. The writer takes us to a great stadium with a long race track, and he invites us to imagine ourselves as runners on the track, enduring a long and grueling race.

In 2017, the British Broadcasting Corporation commissioned a survey on religious beliefs in the UK. Strikingly, the survey found that fully a quarter of those who identified as Christians did not believe in the resurrection.