In this picture book, Martin wonders, “If Jesus comes to visit me, what would I say? What would I do? How would I welcome him?”
Albert Vanden Pol touched many people with his pastoral heart and gentle spirit. He died on January 24 in Surrey, B.C.
On the day Billy Graham died and we remembered his life and message, high school kids in Florida were speaking out about gun control.
Madison Church, a multi-site Christian Reformed congregation in Grand Rapids, Mich., retold the biblical story of creation, sin, salvation, and redemption with its multicultural production of James Weldon Johnson’s 1927 book God’s Trombones.
It was a full agenda for the Council of Delegates in February, including discussions about classis renewal, church planting and evangelism, ministry priorities, and tough budgets.
The Lord must breathe life into the dry bones of his church (Ezek. 37) and give it a passion for evangelism and church planting. The question is, do we want it?
Ministry priorities for the Christian Reformed Church are up against tough budget realities of decreased denominational ministry income.
Ranchi, India, is located in the northeastern corner of the country where little is known or told about our the risen Lord.
In December 2017, Jill Bates headed to Blythefield Country Club in Grand Rapids, Mich., to have dinner with Women Who Care of Kent County...
On his many trips to and from the church he pastors in Soroti, Uganda, Martin used to miss opportunities to show God’s love.
Syd Hielema: “It’s not about keeping curriculum alive but embedding curriculum as one part of a faith formation immersive environment.”
Abu Atallah was “a good Muslim kid” who grew up in Cairo, Egypt . . .
In the beginning God created humans in his image, male and female . . .
All Set: James K. A. Smith’s latest book, Awaiting the King, is the third book . . .
Each Sunday at the Village Church we ask people who are celebrating birthdays to come forward and let us help them celebrate.
The Reformed tradition has often been accused of being overly cerebral and intellectual.
When the Christian Reformed Church purchased The Banner back in 1914, it chose to protect the magazine’s editorial independence . . .
If we feel good only when we are working and become restless when we are just being with family, friends, or ourselves, then we are out of balance.
I was excited when I began to read your editorial . . .
Billy Graham, a religious phenomenon who became a household name and preached to multitudes of people across the globe, died Wednesday after more than a half-century of ministry.
Travel bans and changes to the numbers of refugee admissions under the Trump administration have affected many Christian and faith-based resettlement organizations in the U.S.
A humble man with an ecumenical spirit and a warm, welcoming smile, Vugteveen died on February 1, at the age of 84.
A man of prayer with a passion for spreading the gospel, Richard D. Sytsma was one of the pioneer missionaries to Japan in the early 1950s . . .
Imagine an African country untouched by colonialism, completely in control of a rare mineral resource, and more technologically advanced than any other nation.