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The Long Version

Dwaine grew up in the Jehovah’s Witnesses — a religious upbringing that taught him early that words matter and that doctrines have consequences. At fifteen, he left. At sixteen, he encountered the gospel and gave his life to Christ.

Shortly after, he joined a Christian intentional community in Upsala, Ontario — a back-to-the-land fellowship rooted in communal living, shared work, and serious Scripture study. It shaped a lifelong commitment to community and the Word.

In his early twenties, Dwaine enrolled in Bible college. In his third year he married Cheryl, and by his fourth year he was simultaneously pastoring a church full-time and finishing his Bachelor of Theology. He graduated and pastored in northern Alberta for two years, then moved to southern Alberta — spending thirteen years not in full-time ministry, but deeply involved in lay ministry, home Bible studies, and worship leadership.

That season ended when he and Cheryl moved to Saskatchewan, where Dwaine planted the Good Spirit Community Church and pastored it for another thirteen years.

Leaving that church was a theological turning point. He had grown increasingly disillusioned with a church culture oriented toward entertainment and spectacle rather than discipleship — caught up in charismatic movements, speculative prophecy, and dispensational end-times thinking that he came to believe was more rooted in tradition than in the text. He went back to the Word. Then he went deeper — into church history, into the prophets in their original context, into what the Scriptures actually say when you strip away the interpretive overlays.

That journey created a love for Scripture that hasn’t stopped. The Berean Post is its public expression — a place to share what he’s learning, verse by verse, with anyone willing to examine the Scriptures daily and see if these things are so.

What We Believe About Scripture

The Bible isn’t a collection of timeless fortune cookies. It’s a library of documents written to specific people, in specific contexts, about specific situations — and it’s that specificity that makes it true, reliable, and transformative when handled carefully.

Every believer has the capacity — and the responsibility — to read Scripture for themselves. Not passively following a teacher, but actively examining the text, asking hard questions, and following the evidence where it leads. That’s what the Bereans did. It’s what we’re trying to do here.

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