Historically, the church’s ministry of grounding new believers in the essentials of Christian faith has been known as catechesis
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Long before the Christian Reformed Church had a Disability Concerns ministry, Willoughby CRC in Langley, British Columbia, was actively w
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Three West Michigan high schools recently won state championship titles.
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1926-2010
Rev.
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“Bring your chainsaw” was the word that went out to members of Terrace (B.C.) Christian Reformed Church after an autumn wi
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In most churches, “multimedia” means projectors, amplifiers, PowerPoint, and websites, not paintings.
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The Bananer, the much-storied lampoon of The Banner, turned 40 this past year.
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Congressman Vernon J. Ehlers retired in November after 17 years in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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An interagency skirmish over how to spend the $8 million sent by Christian Reformed churches for Haiti reveals just how complicated it
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The bulk of the $12 million collected by the Christian Reformed Church for Haiti is bankrolling simple wood houses in five small commu
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“In Haiti, it never ends,” one relief worker I met recently in Haiti told me. He was right.
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An elderly man rushed into the doctor’s office and shouted, “Doctor! I think I’m shrinking!!”
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Jews and Christians have long recognized the words recorded in both Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 as the heart of the Old Testament&rsqu
Yield to the King
Reconsidering the role of Sunday-morning worshipREAD MOREDirk, thanks so much for your good thoughts and gutsy gospel endeavor to plant a new church.
Surrender the Queen
Reconsidering the role of Sunday-morning worshipREAD MOREI am an exceptionally bad chess player. I’m told I rush too quickly to bring out the queen.
Your Kingdom Come
Living out God's love for diversityREAD MOREA group of animals gathers at a water hole: A lion drinks next to a zebra. An ostrich runs alongside a lioness.
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Imagine that you’ve been invited to the home of new friends.
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God gave you some pretty wonderful senses.
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Mission
Q I’d like to give my time and money to organizations in my community.
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A Modest Proposal
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I am a convert to social justice. For a long time I found it easy to make excuses not to help the poor.
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Let the wicked forsake their ways
and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the Lord, and he will
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It’s scary how easily the media swing our attention away from what really matters to what really doesn’t.
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It must be a thankless job to write for a sci-fi TV show.