Against the Tide: On Being a Christian Today

Janet McCreadie is a Dunnville-based freelance editor and writer.

The Christian way of life is a life of swimming against the tide, of not doing what the world is doing. To be a Christian is to base one’s life on the Bible and God, says author Kenneth G. McMillan.

Against the Tide: On Being a Christian Today goes back to the basics of Christianity — foundations of Christian ethics, God’s cure for fear, faith and life, and the most important thing in life, our relationship to God. The book speaks about realism, hope, forgiveness, love, joy, peace, goodness, temperance, and the reality each of these has in a believer’s life. This is what the world is looking for — the simple gospel that they miss precisely because it is so simple that it is unbelievable.

McMillan bases his life on the simple message of the Gospel and says the answers to life’s problems lie in the Bible. The Bible has the answer to every problem and lists the good and evils that confront us. There is a choice other than what the world offers. God is that alternative. McMillan persuades the reader that it is possible for every person to have a meaningful and personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ. It is a commonsense approach to life and, though McMillan does not list Scripture references for what he has written, the reader can glean that the Bible is the basis for Against the Tide: On Being a Christian Today.

McMillan’s advice on being a Christian today is “don’t let the world around you squeeze you into its mould.”