March 2010
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Features
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Welcome to a brand-new column. Sorry, we’re not going to dish out juicy “tell-alls” here.
Lavish Frugality
The secret to an abundant lifeREAD MORE“I wish he’d get rid of all that junk!” my mom often said of my dad when I was growing up.
Life-giving Death
Hospice care helps people say “good” goodbyesREAD MOREI knock on Mary’s door with no more than a name on a chart. My hospice badge prompts her husband to let me inside.
Our Need for Beauty
How it connects us to God and each otherREAD MOREBeauty has increasingly become a stranger to many of us.
News
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George and Toni Fernhout were not surprised when they got an early-morning phone call the day after an earthquake devastated Haiti.
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“The parsonage of our church was burned down, but no one was killed at the site. Our new pastor was supposed to move in tomorrow.
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The Jan.
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Hope and horror were among the emotions felt by many Christian Reformed Church members as news of the devastating Jan.
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The Christian Reformed presence in Haiti started when Rev.
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Emily Ottenhoff, a member of Hope Christian Reformed Church in Oak Forest, Ill., was named an NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Associat
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June 17, 1929 – December 31, 2009
Rev.
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Six members of Grace Fellowship Christian Reformed Church in Pella, Iowa, arrived in Haiti just in time to feel the earth move on Jan.
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Jenny Reks, Todd Pihl, Lynn Duquette, and Jane Howard—all members of New England Chapel, a Christian Reformed church in Franklin, M
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Just days after the Jan.
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When the January 12 earthquake shook Haiti, it also shook Paul and Marisa Brinks, members of Calvary Christian Reformed Church in Holland
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Scott Brown, 50, who attends New England Chapel, a Christian Reformed Church in Franklin, Mass., won the Massachusetts senate seat left v
Columns
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As movie buffs focus on the Academy Awards, discussions always turn to what makes a film “important.” Films of importance tak
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What are your favorite signs of spring? Robins? Crocuses?
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Church
Q. Our pastor has been here well over a decade.
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have a friend with whom I hesitate to be seen.
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Got Religion?
It’s articles such as “Got Religion?” (January 2010) that ease my own discomfort with no longer b
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I was walking past the youth room in a church I used to attend when I overheard the following: “Why do we have to study the Heidelb
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According to a radio report, a middle school in Oregon was faced with a unique problem.
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When synod encouraged Christian Reformed churches to study the Belhar Confession—in view of the CRC’s potential adoption of i
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What have you done for the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee lately?
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The journey of grief is arduous. It is exhausting, seems never-ending, and is filled with anguish and suffering.
Our Shared Ministry
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Jimbo is a small fishing village of about 200 inhabitants, mostly Muslim, along the Indian Ocean in southern Kenya.
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Rev. Marco Avila left his home in Paterson, N.J., earlier this year and drove several hundred miles.
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A committee of church music experts working to compile a new hymn collection knew that “Amazing Grace” would make the cut.
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The night was dark, but the patio was filled with light as a Christian Reformed missionary met with people in a slum in Guadalajara, Mexi
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The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood” (John 1:14, The Message).
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The dust has settled in Port-au-Prince. The earth is quiet; the shaking has stopped; the cries of the crushed and trapped are silent.
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How do you reach 1.3 billion people in China with the gospel? Through a strong media ministry and a vast network of volunteers.
