January/February 2025
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Features
News
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Alaska Korean Christian Reformed Church in Anchorage, Ala., has been ministering to the Korean community there since 1994.
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알래스카 앵커리지에서 1994년부터 한인 커뮤니티에서 사역해 온 알라스카 한인장로교회.
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Peter Mahaffy, professor of chemistry at The King’s University in Edmonton, Alta., is the 2025 recipient of the George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical Education, presented by the American Chemical Society.
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Jeremiah Bašurić, a pastor in Edmonton, Alta., and Sebastian Maldonado, a campus minister in Toronto, Ont., will share the position of senior leader for intercultural ministry in Canada.
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Tuesday nights in Bellingham, Wash., a band of friends from First Christian Reformed Church in Lynden, Wash., distribute sandwiches, socks, and bottles of water.
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Two Christian high schools battled for the boys provincial volleyball championship, with Hamilton (Ont.) District Christian High School taking home the title.
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Seven congregations from the Christian Reformed Church’s Classis Red Mesa make up the latest iteration of the Center for Church Renewal’s New Horizons project.
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Christian Reformed member and small town Alberta doctor Robert Greidanus was honored with Family Physician of the Year for 2024 by the Alberta College of Family Physicians.
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Formed in 1910 by Dutch immigrants, First Christian Reformed Church in Edmonton, Alta., is now seeing its membership increased by newcomers from Nigeria, Kenya, Sudan, Uganda, and by those to whom elder Valentine Ojelede ministers at a downtown mission.
In Memoriam: Rev. Arthur Schoonveld
1936-2024READ MOREAdventurous and service-oriented, Art Schoonveld was a pastor who looked out for others and stood up for what he believed. He died Nov. 16 at age 88.
In Memoriam: Rev. Hans Uittenbosch
1932-2024READ MOREHans Uittenbosch was a master storyteller with a generous laugh. Pioneer of ministry to seafarers, he was a lifelong evangelist. He died Nov. 23 at age 92.
In Memoriam: Rev. Louis M. Tamminga
1930 -2024READ MORE“Through and through a pastor,” Rev. Louis Tamminga died Nov. 11 at age 94. He had served the denomination in pastor-church relations, as a longtime Banner contributor, and a pastor to missionaries.
In Memoriam: Rev. Sidney Cooper
1930-2024READ MOREA wise and confident leader who modeled for others his deep love for the Lord and for his people, Sid Cooper died Nov. 13 at age 94.
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Emmaus City Church, an emerging Christian Reformed congregation in Worcester, Mass., is in its second round of Surge School, a discipleship and spiritual transformation program.
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Resonate Global Mission, the missionary agency of the CRCNA, is among eight Christian organizations funding an independent investigation into allegations of abuse at Hillcrest School in Jos, Nigeria.
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These were the 10 most-accessed articles on thebanner.org between January and December 2024
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The Gathering Markit, a nonprofit grocery initiative in Abbotsford, B.C., promotes dignity and choice for families in need.
Columns
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We all want God’s help, but something deeper in our hearts must happen to us to be able to want God’s hold.
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Loss is a painful part of life, and we all experience it at times—sometimes even when it comes to faith.
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If I’m busy preparing for the worst, I forfeit the present and the possibilities within it.
Giving and Receiving Onions
A word of encouragement for recent graduatesREAD MOREI suppose it’s natural to desire a tremendous purpose.
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I struggle with my kids’ constant fighting. How can I stop the competition so our home can find some peace?
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Our church is doing more intergenerational ministry events. Don’t people learn best with their own age groups?
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Is Jesus’ admonition “In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you” (Matt. 7:12) an example of moral relativism?
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King Solomon observed, recorded, and reported what he saw in creation. One of my favorite ways to do this is through nature journaling.
Othered: Finding Belonging with the God Who Pursues the Hurt, Harmed, and Marginalized
By Jenai AumanREAD MOREFor anyone who has felt left out or pushed out of the church, this is your invitation to find spiritual rest and belonging in a God who loves, pursues, and blesses the outcast.
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As I leave a much-beloved job, I’ve been reflecting on some of the lessons I have learned through my years in this unique mission field.
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See how readers responded to recent Banner issues, articles, and columns.
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Los eruditos bíblicos dicen que la frase “conocer el bien y el mal” en Génesis 3 es un merismo judío. Es una forma idiomática hebrea de decir “el potencial del conocimiento ilimitado”.
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Bible scholars say the phrase “knowing good and evil” in Genesis 3 is a Jewish merism. It is an idiomatic Hebrew way of saying, “the potential to unlimited knowledge.”
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In Advent we long for the light, at Christmas we revel in it, and throughout Epiphany we see by it.
‘Keep Writing!’
Mixed Media Editor Encourages Student ReviewersREAD MOREThe Banner’s Mixed Media editor responds to review pitches from B.C. Christian school students.
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성경 학자들은 창세기 3장에 등장하는 "선악을 아는 것"이라는 표현이 유대적 총칭어법이라고 설명합니다. 이는 히브리어의 관용적 표현으로, "무한한 지식을 가질 수 있는 잠재력"을 뜻합니다.
Our Shared Ministry
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Christian Reformed congregations are renewing a commitment to prayer and spiritual practices that deepen faith.
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In one district where World Renew is at work, a people group believes that if twins are born and raised in the village, illness and death will come.
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A church and a school in Michigan’s rural Upper Peninsula came together to create a building suiting both of their needs.
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Over the next few months, senior leaders in the CRCNA want to share a few answers to that question that go beyond “just because.”
Your Labor Is Not in Vain
The Sanctuary as Conversation Between Work and WorshipREAD MORECalvin professor Cory Willson’s book Work and Worship: Reconnecting Our Labor and Liturgy has been influential for churches seeking to integrate the daily work of believers into Sunday worship.
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En los próximos meses, los principales líderes de la ICRNA quieren compartir algunas respuestas a esa pregunta que van más allá del “porque sí”
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앞으로 몇 달 동안, CRC교단의 지도자들은 "그냥"이라는 답변을 넘어 이 질문에 대한 몇 가지 의미 있는 답변을 제시하고자 합니다.