It’s finals week at Heritage, the grand finale of the fall semester. Students are pushing hard to finish well. Today I saw one student in the cafeteria reviewing his Hebrew vocabulary cards as he ate lunch; the Hebrew exam was at 1:00 pm and…
Author: Rick and Linda Reed
Remembering Jay
I met Jay Keddy several years ago when his son, Allastair, graduated from Heritage college. Although Jay and I only talked briefly in person, he regularly emailed me over the past few years. Jay served as a deacon in the…
King David Comes to Canada (Part 3)
How can we effectively preach and teach narrative passages in the Bible? That's the subject of this short series of posts. In the previous two posts, I focused on 1) discovering the main message of the passage and 2) using…
King David Comes to Canada (Part 2)
In the previous post, I presented the first part of an article I wrote related to preaching and teaching narrative passages. Having focused on how to discover the main message of the passage, we now consider how to apply the main…
King David Comes to Canada
One of my great joys at Heritage is teaching preaching. Right now our homiletics course is focused on how to preach and teach the narrative passages in the Bible. Narratives are the "stories" in the Bible that easily capture our…
Wedding Day Glory
The past week and half have been an epic time for our family. Our oldest son, Ryan, was married to Jenny Florio on October 24th in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. As parents, we’ve prayed for years for the mates our kids would marry. Jenny…
A Bumper Crop of Blessings
“You crown the year with your bounty and your carts overflow with abundance” (Psalm 65:11). The previous owners of our home in Cambridge had the foresight to plant an apple tree in the backyard. Last year, the tree produced a…
Heritage Preaching Lectures and Ministry Wives Day
Where can preachers go to get refueled and refocused? Where can Bible teachers go to be taught about teaching? Where can ministry wives go to be encouraged and equipped by other women in ministry? One good answer to these questions is…
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Love Hespeler
Last Sunday night, under threatening skies, several hundred believers (including about 70 Heritage students) met for an outdoor praise and prayer service at Forbes Park in the little village of Hespeler. Hespeler is one of three towns and a hamlet that…
Back to School Supplies
“And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:19). We have been rejoicing all summer in good and hard times. In early July, the doctor noted a suspicious growth on…