It Is Written Canada

Now that it’s the season of gifts, Christmas, we want to unveil to you the most dangerous gift of all. It’s not a hover board or a set of lawn darts. It’s not a nerf gun or a sling shot, yet it's even a much more dangerous gift than giving your child a motorcycle or a crossbow for Christmas! Take a look and see why you should accept the most dangerous gift of all this Christmas.

Dan Carter went from living on the streets as a homeless, illiterate drug addict to becoming Mayor of Oshawa, Ontario.

When you plant a seed, you won't be eating fruit the next day, the next week, or even the next month. But, one day you will see fruit if you keep weeding, watering, cultivating the soil, and believing in the harvest — believing in the LORD of the harvest.

As a red-head farm kid, when his dad died, Lorne Brownmiller longed for something different. He knew God could have saved his dad, but when He let him pass away, Lorne didn't like the way God operated, so he gravitated towards rebellion. He lived to make money, and when he established a thriving night club in Whistler, he thought he had it made. However, he detected God interrupting what he wanted as his life began to unravel. "God needed something from me, and I wasn’t willing to give it to Him.” Although it's not been easy, when Lorne discovered what God wanted for him, he was set free and found his joy and freedom in willing service to God and to others.

After hearing the truth about her mother, Jolly Grace faced confusion and a host of emotions, which caused her to question her sense of reality and identity. She turned to God, and He provided a core group of friends and put a song in her heart, assuring her that He saw her and He loved her.

Neil Peralta was the only witness to a murder. A woman, who was living in the lower level of his house, was murdered by her husband. At the age of 14, Neil overheard screaming coming from downstairs. When the screaming subsided, the bloodstained father came upstairs carrying a knife in one hand and his five-month-old baby girl in the other. The baby girl’s name was Jolly Grace.

Imagine receiving a letter that will change your life. It’s a letter that is more life-changing than one informing you that you have been accepted into the educational institution of your dreams or one informing you of an inheritance or a letter informing you that the one you love, loves you too.

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) really hit him hard. If he didn’t do something about it, it would become a slippery slope he couldn’t climb back out of. Eventually, it struck him that his only wise choice would be to seek help. After serving his country in the Canadian Armed Forces for many years, Otto Castillo faced the challenges of PTSD.

At the age of 18, Yevgeniy Vasmout’s faith was tested when he arrived at the military base in Russia to complete his two years of mandatory military training. Hear the story of what happened when he stood up against powerful army commanders because of his Seventh-day Adventist beliefs.

See how science is proving that human beings are literally engineered for love and connection.