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Deciding to take it all on doesn’t convey a healthy trust in God’s provision, or trust in others to be the elbows while I focus on being the spleen (to stretch a biblical metaphor).

It is a mistake to assume that just because a lesson is for young children it can be theologically neutral. 

I was taught to obey police officers, but they didn’t play a large role in my life.

Here’s one way to practice being thankful every day!

To me the five points of Calvinism articulated in the Canons of Dort summarize some wonderfully assuring teachings from Scripture.

Good theology is not simply about faithfulness and accuracy to God’s Word but must include a wise and loving use of God’s Word.

I was a synodical delegate in 2016 and 2017 and a member of the subcommittee that authored the recommendations referenced by Clayton Libolt in his article...

On the one hand, some connections are established more easily and quickly now that the smartphone replaced the telephone...

Here are six films, from the very old to the recent, that are worth watching.

According to one polyamory website, a polyamorous relationship is “a romantic relationship where the people in the relationship agree that it’s okay for everyone to be open to or have other romantic partners.”

A re-think of the role and place of servanthood and leadership in the church is long overdue.

Three or four years ago, I started to notice people beginning their spoken sentences with “so...”

Loving small means doing small things, helpful things, things not all that striking, but doing them with great love.

How do I discern between God’s calling and my own—or even other people’s—sinful ambitions?

Our primary loyalty should always be to God, not to any human being, institution, or country—not even to any theological tradition.

Being biblical is only possible if our goal is to be a faithful and dynamic disciple of Jesus.

Shouldn’t the Christian Reformed Church be establishing closer ties with A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians (ECO)?

What is a vegetable, a grain, and a fruit all at the same time?

The Belgic Confession clearly has a powerful early history. But does it have any lasting significance for our churches today? Is it more than a historical document established as one of the three confessional standards of the Christian Reformed Church? In what ways does the Belgic Confession still speak to us today?

When I first met Attie, I was a sleep-deprived mess of nerves and disappointment.

What does it mean to “give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s”?

As much as I lament the decline of the institutional church, I also lament the fact that we are still stuck in our old ways of trying to get people to church.

My earliest memories of Holy Communion are set in a small church in rural Netherlands. In that place and in those times, the pious took the apostle Paul’s injunctions regarding righteous living at face value.

In one way or another, it seems Christians keep coming back to the question What makes the church the church right here, right now?