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    More Than a Filter: Helping Alberta's Daughters Embrace True Femininity

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    on November 06, 2025 7 min read
    From Beyoncé to Ballerina Farm’s Hannah Neeleman, young women today have an abundance of female role models to choose from. Alberta’s daughters are learning about womanhood through observation and osmosis. They consume images of idealized women through filtered screens, and I fear the beauty of true femininity is being trumped by shiny but shallow alternatives.
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    Wisdom for Family Worship

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    on April 08, 2025 6 min read
    In the last article, we started to build a structure upon the foundation that is the practice of family worship. We looked at some key elements that make up this life-giving practice: read, sing, and pray. So, you have a devotional book to read through, or a book of the Bible, you have a hymn book or songs on your phone, you have some ideas for prayer. Good! Yet, like most things, when you first start to practice something, you immediately encounter the nitty-gritty questions that make it up. When it comes to family worship, these questions consist of: how often, how long and where?
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    Family Worship in Practice

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    on March 25, 2025 7 min read
    The last four articles in this series on family worship have built a foundation, which I hope has persuaded you, by God’s Word and the examples throughout church history, to make this a practice in your own home as well. Now, you cannot have a house without a foundation, but you can have a foundation without a house, and the purpose of this article, then, is to build some structure on that foundation; to put some flesh on it. The truth is, unless we start building the house, that is, putting what we have learned into practice, the work we do is in vain. We are called to be doers of the word, and not hearers only (Jam 1:22).
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    Family Worship Throughout History

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    on March 11, 2025 7 min read
    In the previous three articles, I have sought to persuade readers that the family is the foundation block of any society, that cultural change will come through the family, and that family worship is a critical practice to that end. I grounded this in Deuteronomy 6 and then provided several additional examples throughout Scripture that commend this practice to us today. But I think it is also worth looking at family worship in church history.
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    Abraham, Eli, and Family Worship in Scripture

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    on February 11, 2025 8 min read
    In this series, I have argued that true societal change must start in the home through family worship and that we find a biblical mandate for this practice in Deuteronomy 6. In this article, I want to show that family worship is not just a command but is also exemplified throughout Scripture. In 1 Corinthians 10:6, Paul tells us, “Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did.” In Romans 15:4, Paul says, “For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.” This is not the only way to benefit from reading the Old Testament, but it is certainly one of the most important. So, where do we see such examples in the Bible? From beginning to end.
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    Does God Command Family Worship?

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    on January 28, 2025 4 min read
    In a previous article, I argued that true societal change must come from God through his Word and prayer, which will primarily be taught and exemplified in the home. I introduced the idea of family worship, and I want to start unpacking that concept here by appealing to Scripture. Our opinions may fall, but the Word of the Lord endures forever (Isaiah 40:8). We will look at one verse here, and then, in the next article, survey other examples in Scripture to ground this principle in our hearts and minds.
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    How to Change the World: Why Alberta Needs Homes That Worship Christ

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    on January 14, 2025 4 min read
    If you are reading this, there is a good chance you are a Christian who desires deep change in your province– you are reading Alberta Reformer after all! You see sin and decay all around you and know that change is necessary. But where will the change come from? As a Christian, the answer is clear: from God. And yet, we must then ask: how does God bring about change? Again, the answer is clear: by the Spirit of God through the Word of God. But the question then becomes: how does that change work its way into Alberta? Into your city or town? Into your neighborhood? At Alberta Reformer, you will find good articles on government reform, workplace reform, education reform, and more, and I trust these will be helpful. My focus, though, is a little closer to home. I want to start by making a safe assumption: you are part of a family. You may be married or not, have children or not, or still live at home under your parents or not, but either way, you are part of a family network. Your family may be healthy or dysfunctional, although it is a safe bet that your family is not perfect and needs continual reform from one degree to another. Wherever this finds you, then, I trust you will find something helpful. Family is the basic building block of any society. It always has been, and always will be. The strength of a society will be directly related to the health and strength of the families that make it up. If the majority of families are falling apart, so is the society they form. The argument I want to make is simple: if we want to see change in Alberta, it is going to start in the home and with the family. It will start with your family.
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