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Hope In Anxious Times
Anxiety fills the air. Are you feeling that? A feeling of uneasiness and uncertainty, waiting from something about to happen, but we...

Tony Zekveld
Sep 30, 20232 min read


A Sound School for your Children
Public school is not your only choice. Hope Academy is a Christian mission school (JK -9) registered with the Ontario government. It...

Tony Zekveld
Aug 23, 20232 min read


The Way Out of Addiction
According to medical news today, an addiction ‘is an inability to stop using a substance or engaging in a behavior even though it may...

Tony Zekveld
Jul 31, 20232 min read


School's Out: What Now?
The last week of school, as I remember, had a lot of drama: games, parties, thank-yous, and also clean-up. And then suddenly, we were at...

Tony Zekveld
Jun 30, 20232 min read


What Are Your Children Consuming?
I love my children. I’m sure you do as well. In our home, we had the habit of taking out the trash to bring to the garbage bin, and put...

Tony Zekveld
May 31, 20232 min read


Training Girls to be Nurturers
We have three sons and two daughters. In one of the songs we taught our children, there is the phrase, “stalwart sons and daughters...

Tony Zekveld
Apr 30, 20232 min read


Training Boys to Become Leaders
You might ask, ‘what about girls? Why do you single out boys only?’ I hope to focus on training girls in my next article. There is the...

Tony Zekveld
Mar 31, 20232 min read


Is 'Freedom' a Good Thing?
We love our freedom. But that begs the question, ‘Freedom to do what?’ One dictionary defines freedom in a simple way, “the power or...

Tony Zekveld
Mar 1, 20232 min read


Slow Down! What's the Hurry?
What a fast-paced society we live in. To use an English idiom, ‘It’s a rat-race!’ A ‘rat-race’ is “a way of life in which people are...

Tony Zekveld
Feb 1, 20232 min read


Every Life is Valuable!
Whose life is valuable? Is there a time when a human life has no value? Who determines when a human life has or has no value? These are...

Tony Zekveld
Jan 1, 20232 min read


Beginning Anew
We have had a sobering past year with rising inflation, increasing household debts and grocery prices climbing through the roof. Add to...

Tony Zekveld
Dec 1, 20222 min read


Drug or Alcohol Addiction?
In our years of ministry from the Hope Centre we have met countless families who have family members struggling with addiction,...

Tony Zekveld
Oct 31, 20222 min read


Who Can I Trust?
“Fragile. Handle With Care!” How often we read this on packaged merchandise! How much more so is this counsel important in our...

Tony Zekveld
Sep 30, 20222 min read


God Made You Special
Hearing this truth is refreshing in contrast to the lies we repeatedly hear or are taught. Our public schools exclude “God” and...

Tony Zekveld
Sep 1, 20222 min read


Grasping for the Wind
Picture the action: you grasp for the wind, but you never catch it. It’s always eluding you. You never feel satisfied, and when you think...

Tony Zekveld
Jul 31, 20222 min read


The Wonder in the Mother's Womb (Psalm 139:13-16)
Consider the wonder of the heavens. “when I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars which You have...

Tony Zekveld
Jul 17, 20228 min read


Created in God's Image
There is so much confusion today over identity. Who am i? Children are being taught to question their gender: ‘Am I a boy or a girl or...

Tony Zekveld
Jun 30, 20222 min read


Love Casts Out Fear
People are afraid, genuinely so. They are afraid of the future, afraid of disease, afraid of death. We fear because we feel unsafe...

Tony Zekveld
May 31, 20222 min read


A Woman Caught in Adultery
This title may catch your attention. Immediately you may be asking questions: what about the man? Why the attention only on the woman? ...

Tony Zekveld
Apr 30, 20222 min read


Mercy Triumphs over Judgment
Newcomers, including students, are continually coming to our country with hopes for a brighter future. They come not only for themselves...

Tony Zekveld
Mar 31, 20222 min read
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