Circle of Faith

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Dublin St. United Church, 68 Suffolk St W, Guelph, Ontario. Built in 1874-75 as the Second Wesleyan Methodist Church. Constructed of Guelph limestone in the neo-gothic style.

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St. Pauls Church was the gift in 1868 of the General Manager of the Grand Trunk Railway. The church is the home of numerous items associated with marine life on the Great Lakes and artifacts of the railway in Point Edward

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Caravaggio painted The Taking of Christ in 1602. It is in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin. Judas delivered Jesus to the high priest's guards in the Garden of Gethsemane. Only the first three Gospels speak of Judas' kiss. In the Gospel of John, Judas led the guards to Jesus before he implicated himself by answering "Is me" when the guards asked who they were searching for.

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Second missionary of Upper Canada, a Welshman, educated at St. Bees, arrived at Kingston on the last day of Sept 1778. He was appointed Missionary on the Bay of Quinte

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Esau and Jacob by Matthias Stom Matthias Stom (c.1600 – after 1652) was born in the Utrecht area but spent most of his artistic life in Italy.   Esau and Jacob was painted in the 1640s and is now in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. Returning home one day, the exhausted Esau caught the scent of a lentil dish that his younger twin brother Jacob had prepared.   Esau asked Jacob to give him some but Jacob said he would only if Esau relinquished his birthright to him.   Without much consideration, he gave up these rights, which did not seem very crucial to him.

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Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

Charles Haddon (C.H.) Spurgeon (1834-1892) was a British Particular Baptist preacher who remains highly influential among Christians of different denominations.

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"Speak Life" is from tobyMac's sixth full-length studio album Eye on It. The album won Best Contemporary Christian Music Album at the 2013 Grammy Awards.

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The town and the Anglican Church date from the construction of the railway in 1859 with the first meetings of the congregation held in the new railway station in 1860. The present Christ Church with its jewel like interior was built in 1898.

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Bernardino Luini (1480?-1532) was influenced by Leonardo da Vinci and many of his paintings including Christ among the Doctors have been taken in the past to be originals by Leonardo. The National Gallery, London acquired the painting in the 1831 Howell Carr Bequest. In Jesus' youth, he went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem at Passover. When Mary and Joseph were searching for him on the return journey, they found him in the Temple, discussing matters with the scribes and astounding them with insightful questions. Christ was supposedly twelve years old but he seems more mature in Luini's pane

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I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) was the most prominent liberal Baptist minister of the early 20th Century.

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"Whom Shall I Fear (God Of Angel Armies)" is from Chris Tomlin's seventh studio album, Burning Lights. It was released in the U.S. on November 9, 2012, as the first single from the album.

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Holy Trinity, Stanley Mission, Saskatchewan is one of twenty-five Anglican Churches designated a National Historic Site.   This early Anglican Gothic Revival mission church, built 1852-56, is the oldest building in Saskatchewan.

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The Sacrifice of Isaac was painted by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573-1610) in 1603 for Cardinal Maffeo Barberini, the future Pope Urban VIII. It is in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. In order to test Abraham, God ordered him to give his son Isaac as a burnt offering. Abraham followed these instructions but was stopped by an angel just before carrying the sacrifice. Seeing the proof of Abraham's faith, God promised Abraham a number of descendants as great as the number of stars in the sky.

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I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), German-born theologian, philosopher, musicologist, medical missionary, and Nobel laureate.

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Jesus Loves Me! by Lynn Gipson

A short story in which Lynn Gipson sees the world through the eyes of her Granddaughter

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Constructed in 1835, Trinity Anglican is an Ontario Heritage Building. It is an active church in a 3-point charge with St. Luke's Church, Vienna, Ontario and Trinity Church, Aylmer, Ontario.

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606–1669) painted Belshassar's Feast around 1636-8. It is now in the National Gallery, London. Belshazzar, King of Babylon, was hosting a banquet. Suddenly a hand appeared and wrote "Mene mene tekel u-parsin" on the wall. Daniel was summoned: he said "Mene" meant that God would end Belshazzar's rule; "Tekel" meant that God found him greedy; "Parsin" meant that his kingdom would be split up. Later that night, Belshazzar was killed and Persia took over Babylon.