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I recently found out through a CTV news article that people like me who have a mental disability and are just coming into the system of social assistance under the new guidelines will be denied Ontario works or ODSP because the Ontario Doug Ford Government is redefining the word disability, in my opinion to cut the costs the Government spends on Social Assistance. They are cleverly packaging this as empowerment to the poor, in the real sense that they will be encouraging the disabled who no longer qualify for financial support to re-enter the work force. They are saying that disabled people like me have become dependant on the system which has prevented us from working for a long time and by redefining the term disability to fall more closely under the Federal Guidelines, it will somehow cause disabled people like me to miraculously go back to work and re-habilitate myself.  In all honesty, it has been a very long time for me not working, but the nature of my illness is long t...

We live in a culture where Christianity is only important to those who profess it. But just because you profess to be a Christian doesn't make you one. To be saved in the way that the bible uses that term, means that at one point in your life you turned from your sins to welcome Christ into your life as Lord and Saviour. True Christianity is a life long journey of repentance and faith, and to claim that you are saved without any signs of repentance in your life means that at one point you stopped trusting in God for your salvation. I used to hear of stories of adults being saved as children, and then walking away from their faith. Does that mean that they are still saved while living in their sin and rejection of God? I would say no. Anyone who dies living in a state of sin will go to hell. Of course we can't be completely sinless untill we all get to Heaven and are glorified, but to leave the state of Grace and live in sin is what sends even the Christian to hell. Of course ...

I am turning 45 this month and I want to take the time to express to you what really matters in my life. Some think that life is a mystery and that our questions about hope and about eternity can only really be experienced when this life is over, but I think the opposite is true! There are many ways to get to God or Heaven (you hear) and the best way to get to Heaven when you die is to be a good person they say. Being good and going to Heaven will only work if you know the Lord Jesus now. When I was 21 I had a born again experience, it wasn't just a coming to Jesus moment, (I don't think I have had any of those!) but it was a biblical experience that is talked about in the evangelical world as regeneration. Around that time, someone asked me after I told them I was born again "What does that mean?" Although I knew God had just forgiven all my sins for all eternity, I didn't know enough about theology to explain to them the doctrine of the new birth, all I could ...