When we are broken and humbled, acts of kindness convey God’s care in ways that spark and refresh our sense of being called to serve God.

What do we do with all the promises for peace on Earth that got stirred up during the Advent and Christmas seasons?

I can choose to hit each note precisely and be on my own or I can elect to more or less sing the right notes in a kind of approximate way but at least be singing along with the others.

He tried to say at the end that creation, like salvation, is all about grace, but it seems to me that environmental sermons are a bit fluffy and sermons instead should be about the gospel of the saving grace of Jesus

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Why and what we do matters, yes, but how we do it also matters to God.

Given time to reassess, to think about what the potential outcomes could have been, I would have made a different decision. I would not have swerved.

There seem to be only three persons absolutely necessary to make a marriage a Christian marriage: the man, the woman, and God.

성경에서 생명은 관계를 의미합니다. 그것은 몸과 영혼이 하나님께 속하는 것이고, 다음으로 공동체에 속하는 것입니다.

Helping refugees takes finesse, proper training, and certainly prayer. Above all, it comes with great blessing, for in this partnership we are finding friendship, kinship, and the body of Christ.

If we want church to resonate with the next generation, here are a few words to consider dropping.

One of the reasons the “attractional church model” is being questioned today is the realization that it often produces consumers more than it makes disciples.

What is your church’s brand? What do people in your community think about when they hear your church’s name mentioned? Not too long ago, our entire denomination and every individual congregation were known as the “Dutch church.” We have made great strides in shaking that image. But to no longer be known as something hardly qualifies as a strong brand.

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Reasons for busyness vary from family to family, but one reason is we don’t want to miss out on anything.

The church is a community of vulnerability. And God intends that to be our strength.

How can we trust that the Bible we have is any good if the canon was selected by the early church and preserved by church tradition?

How do you keep warm in the winter? Maybe you wear a sweater or a winter coat. But how do animals keep themselves warm?

Life, in the Bible, is relatedness. It is about belonging, body and soul, to God, and secondarily, to belong in a community.

You cannot resolve the conflicts within your parents’ marriage that are highlighted by these political differences.

It was mid-December. We were all waiting. But we weren't waiting like the rest of the world.

카드: 만약 제가 완전히 동의하는 기사만 싣는다면 저는 배너를 저의 사적인 확성기로 만드는 잘못을 저지르게 됩니다.

People are willing to die for their faith in God. People are not willing to die for their faith in Santa Claus.