Matters of FAITH
By Tony Copple

Who is Jesus?

THIS AREA IS BIBLE-BASED

Stop Bill C250 - this is URGENT

Interview with God

If you aren't living like there's a living God, you had better be right.

Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,
because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.
- Rom 8:1-2

It's June 19, 1984, QPR stadium, London. I am here with thousands to see Luis Palau, evangelist. Ten years before I was a convinced atheist - certain there was no God and anyone who believed otherwise was in fantasy land. Luis's message of redemption in Christ convicted me. His cool logic appealed to my engineer's brain. I now wanted to do something with my new faith. Actually it was God who laid His hand on me that night. Luis was His agent.

How wonderful it is that so many people believe in God. If you believe, what could be more important in the universe than He, since He made it? If you knew someone was in danger, but didn't do anything to save them, how would you feel? If you know Jesus, but not how to show others how important he is, are you being true to yourself? Don't just have a nominal belief in God. Find out more! Your whole future depends on it. By the way, a good start to finding out about these things is The Alpha course. Check it out.

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The Billy Graham Mission to Ottawa took place June 25 - 28, 1998. For many, and certainly for me, life will not be the same from then on. I commend all activity of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.

In 1997 I took the Alpha course at Trinity Presbyterian, Kanata. Wow! Am I glad I joined Alpha. Here's a good description. I then helped as a group leader at the next Trinity Alpha course in February 1998, and in Nov / Dec 98 co-led the first Alpha at Glen Cairn United Church. For information on all the Alpha Courses in the Ottawa West area, visit www.ncf.ca/alpha/. Checkout GCUC Alpha. Do Alpha, whatever step of the faith ladder you are on. It will really make a difference in your life. There was an Alpha Conference in Ottawa, October 26 & 27, 2001.

The Heart of Ottawa Mission, Sept 16 - 20, 2000, brought Affinity Group Evangelism to Ottawa led by evangelists Leighton Ford and Lon Allison. This was a rare chance to invite pre-Christian friends to any of the Common interest groups. I had joined the Christian Businessmen's Committee earlier in the year and my suggestion to host an affinity group with Lon Allison as speaker was followed through.

After convinced atheism in my 20's, (following on from a Christian childhood) God found me around 1975, and started me on my Faith Journey beginning with a jolt in the area of prophecy, and culminating with Luis Palau's Mission to London, which I first visited 19 June 1984. It was from Luis that I received the basic grounding in my beliefs today. He undertook another mission in UK in 1998.

I am Church of England (= Anglican) and since coming to Canada in 1987 have worshipped mainly in the United Church of Canada, until June 2002. Laurie-Ann, my wife, is an evangelical charismatic, worshipping before our June 1999 marriage mainly in Woodbridge Presbyterian Church, Vaughan, near Toronto. She has previous background in the United Church, Baptist and Vineyard.

I held the chairs of Worship and also of Stewardship at Glen Cairn United Church, Kanata, and was webmaster. I occasionally preached when the minister was away. Laurie-Ann worshipped at GCUC for a year and helped introduce contemporary music very occasional. Sheila Currie-Alder originally suggested I set up an IP Area on Freenet, and this grew first into Kanata Churches, following which I developed the GCUC web site.

The then moderator of the United Church of Canada, Rt. Revd. Bill Phipps, caused a stir November '97 here in Ottawa when he elaborated publicly about his personal faith - or lack of it - in some of the traditional beliefs of Christianity such as the virgin birth, the resurrection and the full divinity of Christ. This sparked a national discussion both inside and outside church circles, and fired with my enthusiasm from the Alpha course, I set up the Moderator Web Site to chronicle the debate, which attracted a fair amount of feedback.

As a delayed reaction to the Phipps effect and the influence of freemasonry in GCUC I decided to leave the United Church in 2002 and after a telephone survey of most of the Kanata churches decided to come home to my roots and join Laurie-Ann at St. Paul's Anglican. June 9th was the first time we had driven to our regular church together in two years. It was a warm feeling, though I have very fond memories of the folk at GCUC.

I was introduced to some of the research being done on apparent subliminal coding in the Bible though a program on 100 Huntley Street when the Grant Jeffrey, the author of "The Signature of God" was interviewed. Dr Jeffrey Satinover and others have further researched this, some refuting the previous claims. The movie The Omega Code on the same subject is already the most successful Christian movie ever. L-A and I watched it on our first night on our New Orleans holiday on 6 April 2001 where it was in the timeshare video library. We have since viewed "Megiddo" - Omega Code II - on DVD in March 2002, available from your local video store, and enjoyed it a lot. Interesting to compare these with "Left Behind" another very successful end times film which we had seen on DVD, and was the first of the "Left Behind" series of books by Tim Lahaye and Jerry B. Jenkins.

Have you tapped into the incredible power of prayer?

Heard of The Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship (TACF)? Want to hear about it? Click!

I love Christian music, traditional and modern, from hymns via gospel to Christian contemporary pop and rock. CHRI-FM 99.1 here in Ottawa has really boosted my love for this genre.

I took the Ottawa Pastoral Care Course in 1994, and remain a Pastoral Care Team member at Glen Cairn United.

Prominently on this Faith page, I want to commend the vital work of Dr. Laura Schlessinger, whom you can hear most days on hundreds of North American radio stations. She visited Ottawa on Sunday May 3, 98. I have listen to Dr. Laura's phone-in program frequently, and believe that single handedly she's doing the work of churches (all churches/synagogues; she's Jewish) for the majority of today's generation, who didn't have the privilege of growing up in a religious environment, and she's doing a good job teaching morality.
Thank God for Dr. Laura. A generation of children should. Her phone in number is 1-800-375-2882, and her fax is 1-213-487-6678.

Links to items of renewal, evangelism, faith, etc

Disclaimer: Although the sites below are selected because their content seems to me to me based on pure Christianity, some links could conceivably lead to less savoury destinations. Should you find such a link that is not helpful, I would appreciate your feedback.

Renewal

  • Renewal Ministries - multi-denominational
  • Prophecy
  • Rev. Don Anderson's Site and The Petition to UCCAN re "Bearing Faithful Witness."
  • The (previous) Moderator
  • Petition to preserve the Bible
  • Christianity in UK not in the dumps - by Cannon Michael Green

    Evangelism and outreach

  • Inuit Mission to Ottawa   October 02   (in-reach)
  • Kanata's Let's Go to Church month  Sept 5 - 30, 2002
  • Evangelists, and Mission
  • 100 Huntley St. Cross-Canada Tour -  1-800-265-3100
  • Amsterdam 2000 Billy Graham Conference July 26 - Aug 6, 2000. Hear webcasts till year end or longer.
  • Ottawa Prays Summer 2000 intercession, March for Jesus, Canadian Prayer Assembly, Promise Keepers
  • Billy Graham mission, June '98, Ottawa
  • Is Billy Graham important to the United Church? You bet!
  • Heart of Ottawa Mission, Sept 16-20,2000, brought Affinity Group Evangelism to Ottawa led by evangelists Leighton Ford and Lon Allison.
  • View the Mission Common interest groups.
  • Are we moving towards Revival in Ottawa?
  • Acts Ministries Christian Evangelism - Ron Piggott
  • Ron Piggott's Testimony
  • Virtual Hell A scary ride. Try it!
  • First Church of Cyberspace

    Christian events

  • Kanata Christian events
  • Kanata Area Prayer Group - schedule

    Music

  • Christian contemporary music
  • Kenosis - our worship band
  • Soloman's Porch - monthly worship at Arlington Woods Church, Nepean

    Ottawa missions to low income and homeless

  • Capital City Mission, 505 Rideau Street, Ottawa
  • Jericho Road Christian Ministries, Box 20045, Ottawa, K1N 9N5, 613-567-5134
  • The Mission, 35 Waller Street
  • Ottawa Innercity Ministries
  • Ottawa West End Community Chaplaincy

    Christianity in the workplace and on campus

  • Ambassadors for Christ in Canada - Christianity on Campus
  • Chinese Entrepreneur Association
  • CCRI - The Christian Commitment Research Institute
  • Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship
  • Public Service Christian Fellowship - with links to federal departments where PSCF is active
  • Christianity and financial services
  • September 8, 2002 march and memorial service for September 11, 2001.   See the pictures and hear the speeches

    Apologetics

  • Kenosis - our Lord's glorious humility.
  • The Trinity: Irrelevant or Essential? - by Rev. Dr. Andrew Stirling, published in Fellowship Magazine

    Faith

  • He is risen - by David Warren, Ottawa Citizen leader, Easter 2003.
  • Emergency Numbers
  • ChristianCanada.com
  • Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Blogs 4 God
  • A homily for the Queen's Jubilee - Rt. Rev. Robert Mercer
  • Ottawa Cursillo
  • Montreal United Church Cursillo
  • ChristiansNet Home Page
  • Promise of God
  • Counselling and Pastoral Care
  • Father's love letter - video
  • Jesus' Top 40
  • Prayer
  • Frontline On-line Early Christian history
  • Focus on the Family
  • The Fore Runner
  • The human spirit
  • IBS Daily Manna : Subscribe
  • The Living Pulpit
  • Go Ye Project - Christian music samples (audio)
  • Miracles
  • The Omega Code - movie to see
  • Old World Rus.com Faith, etc from Russian ex-pat
  • Global Christian Network
  • Covenant Players
  • Healthy Habits e-newsletter from LPEA
  • Denominations

  • Diocese of Ottawa - Anglican
  • Archdiocese of Ottawa - Roman Catholic
  • Presbytery of Ottawa-Presbyterian
  • Ottawa Presbytery - United

    Churches and schools

  • Tyndale College & Seminary - where my wife Laurie-Ann was when we met.
  • Haversham Foundation - Christian Lay Ministry
  • St.Simon's Anglican, Vancouver...Minister: Ed Hird
  • Augustine College, Inauguration Sept 6, 1997 (I attended, to meet Dr David Jeffrey)
  • Memories of GCUC
  • Kanata Churches
  • Ottawa church web sites
  • Grace Catheral (streaming audio sermons)
  • St.Andrews Presbyterian" Stittsville, On
  • Sign of the times

    Spiritual Warfare, and Evil: demonic and human

  • Spiritual Warfare
  • DRGs - Dangerous religious groups
  • Freemasonry: an exposé
  • Halloween - by Laurie-Ann Copple, and by Dr. Selwyn Stevens
  • Prayer
  • Setting Captives Free - on-line courses in release from addictions
  • "Jesus Factor" is the key to successful drug programs
  • Spiritual Counterfeits
  • My take on the homosexual debate.
  • Violent stimulae - a military psychologist takes aim

    Stewardship, economics

  • "Teach and you shall receive"
  • Cancel Third World debt, churches urge.
  • Can't buy me love
  • Christian media: - Magazines, Bookstores, TV, Radio, Web

  • Christian Current
  • ChristianWeek
  • CBN.com - The Christian Broadcasting Network
  • Christianity Today
  • Cross Canada Search for Canadian Christian links and information
  • CHRI-FM - Christian Hits, Real Audio
  • Crosswalk.com - Where life meets faith
  • Jesus Ontario.com
  • Jerry's Christian Page - includes the NIV Bible on line, and Christian MIDIs
  • Faith in a Digital World - TodRadio, CBC
  • Charisma Christian News Service
  • Salem Storehouse Christian bookstore, 1558 Merivale Rd, Ottawa
  • Shepherd's Guide (Tel 613-257-5174, Brent, Ottawa area)
  • Christian Stronghold Chat Room
  • Best of the Christian Web
  • Surf's site - Christian links
  • Netmenders Christian Links
  • More Christian Links
  • The Prince of Egypt - review
  • Christian Sites - lots!

    Science

  • Creation
  • Physics and God
    Remember: Satan always overplays his hand

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