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In this Christian film by the Kendrick brothers, a basketball coach reluctantly coaches a cross-country runner.
A quartet of country music solo stars perform an empowering, vulnerable album.
Too many of TULIP’s terms are misleading and easily caricatured; they end up misrepresenting the Canons of Dort and giving a distorted impression of Reformed theology.
Faith questions are and should be asked as teens start to make faith their own.
Surely we are not left with just two stark options of hypermasculine men who behave badly or emasculated, effeminate men.
Two or three times each year, Christian Reformed churches send representatives to their classis, a regional group of churches. Here is the report of classis meetings of the past few months.
Sensible Shoes author offers a beautiful story of mental illness and faith.
A podcast featuring girlfriends talking about the big and little things in life.
Based on the author’s life, a 10-year-old girl is faced with losing her sight in this juvenile novel.
Members of Fellowship Christian Reformed Church in Brighton, Ont., co-hosted an all-candidates meeting with the city’s Chamber of Commerce.
Community Christian Reformed Church in Saginaw, Mich., has a population of about 40 members and serves more than 2,000 people a year with clothing, garden produce, and a place to play.
Even for those who suffer chronically, God gives, uplifts, and strengthens. Moreover, he uses this suffering to advance the kingdom in mysterious ways.
As Christians, we need to dig deeper to find out what motivates our political groupings. If our leaders disagree on the right policies to pursue, it is often because they are effectively worshiping different and conflicting gods.
Where are Timothy Leadership Training Program manuals used? They can follow Jesus, the light in the darkness, to the most unlikely places.
By now there’s a good chance you’ve heard of the horrific discovery at the home of the recently deceased abortion provider, Dr. Ulrich “George” Klopfer.
A facilitator of high-powered gatherings explains how simple changes can invigorate any group experience.
Drawing comparisons to Amy Winehouse, rising Canadian indie star Begonia shimmers on her debut album.
A quirky, heartfelt novel for fans of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine.
Revision and reform are closely linked. We call ourselves the Reformed church as if it were past tense and complete. But we should be always reforming, allowing the Spirit to give us new vision and insight to re-vision what the Spirit says to us through Scripture.
The fallen leaves swirling along the avenue remind me that although it is warm enough to sit outdoors with my coffee on this October afternoon, winter is just around the corner. Looking up, I notice one leaf on an otherwise bare tree.
In prison he’d been tossed around like a rag doll, mistreated, abused. There’s no mercy for sex offenders in prison. He was terrified to return.
A young man with Down Syndrome escapes his nursing home and finds adventure, friendship.
