December 2006
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Features
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I awoke before dawn in southern Sudan to what I thought was the sound of a rooster crowing.
Peace on Whom God’s Favor Rests
A story of God’s grace in a dark adventREAD MOREIN DECEMBER when I leave for work the mornings are dark as the days slowly tick off to the 21st, the winter solstice.
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Christmas is first of all about Jesus.
News
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Gabrielle Starr put her speech into action in Langley, British Columbia, this fall.
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On Christmas Day at Bethel Christian Reformed Church in Edmonton, Alberta, it’s hard to know who is a member of the church and who
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An outdoor live nativity scene will be re-created for the 11th year at Brookside Christian Reformed Church, Grand Rapids, Mich.
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Members of Bethel Christian Reformed Church in Lansing, Ill., became known for their love when they turned out in force to repair and reh
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Wright Christian Reformed Church of Kanawha, Iowa, provides a special Christmas present each year for residents of a local nursing home.
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From First Christian Reformed Church, Denver, to Candidate Joel Schreurs.
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Vandals caused thousands of dollars worth of damage Oct. 29 to Western Michigan Christian High School in Muskegon.
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The latest round of classis meetings reveals several Christian Reformed churches in conflict with their own classis (regional grouping of
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The mission to deliver 28 vehicles to aid workers in war-torn Darfur, Sudan, ended successfully in mid-October.
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A carnival atmosphere pervades Southwell Park in the Houston suburb of Spring Heights, Texas, one Saturday each month.
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Liberia’s wrenching civil war left the West African country with poorly trained schoolteachers.
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Rev. Charles T. Fennema
1929 – 2006
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Two churches in the Midwest celebrated their 100th birthdays in recent months.
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Entry into ordained ministry in the Christian Reformed Church is governed by Church Order Article 6 (candidates who have the prescribed s
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Two or three times each year, Christian Reformed churches send representatives to classis, a regional grouping of churches.
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Trish Postma from Second Christian Reformed Church in Brampton, Ontario, was one of 100 North American teens selected to deliver gift box
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Classis Pacific Northwest is taking seriously the call to care for the most vulnerable among us by bringing an overture (request) to Syno
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Calvin Theological Seminary, the official theological school of the Christian Reformed Church, found itself the center of media attention
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After spending a year studying books by Rev.
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In September delegates of Christian Reformed Churches in Classis Illiana and Classis Northern Illinois traveled to meet together with del
Columns
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Mysteries make us curious. We want to know what happened, how, and why. But you say Christmas is not a mystery?
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HOW ARE YOU? I am fine (better than last month). Is it cold up there at the North Pole? I bet you worry about global warming.
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EXPECTING. We associate this seemingly innocent word with (among a good many other things) pregnancy.
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Creation Care
Q: I hate diverting my focus from the joy of Christmas, but I’m troub
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GERRY SHUDDERED at the thought. She was facing her first Christmas without her husband.
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Losses of the Heart
Please convey my sincere thanks to Nathan Sneller for his beautifully honest article “Losses of the Hea
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This year my wife, April, learned firsthand of the wonders of Internet blogging.
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My father loved to tell the joke about the man who looked in the paper every morning to see if his name was in it.
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A Sunday school teacher asked his class, “Who was the mother of Jesus?”
“Mary,” a child answered.
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Have you ever tried to explain the Christmas story to someone who has never heard it before?
Our Shared Ministry
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When God has a work to do among his people, he sets them praying.
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Calvin College has been named one of the best places to work in academia by The Scientist, a magazine for the life sciences now in its 21
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It’s not too late to plan a Christmas program!
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Christmas is a time of very mixed emotions for me. As a father and grandfather, I enjoy the warmth of family.
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Saturday mornings in Brazil are much like Saturday mornings in North America.
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When field leader Albert Strydhorst in Nigeria picked “Crossing Borders” as the name for Christian Reformed World Missions&rs
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What can a group of pastors and lay people from Grand Rapids, Mich., teach the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee about fighting r
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The “nail boys” are at it again.
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Will the Christian Reformed Church of 2057 be anything like the denomination of 1957?
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It’s a sad fact but true: people with disabilities are often excluded from many aspects of the life and ministry of a congregation.
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Last year more than 1.3 million people responded to the broadcast ministry of The Back to God Hour by visiting one of the ministry websit
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Every summer, high school students from across North America join in a common quest: to discover whether Christian ministry might be thei
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“We hide for 15 minutes each day so we can listen to your broadcast,” e-mailed a listener from the central African nation of
