After a trying move (and whining to you about it) I should tell you that I’m having fun wearing my two hats (see author ID below).

Imagine the joy of the early Christians as the outpouring of God’s Holy Spirit made the church grow by leaps and bounds.

Our planet is very, very sick. It’s running a nasty fever that will spike much higher before we can reverse it.

I’VE GROUSED BEFORE ABOUT DUMB THINGS WE SAY AT FUNERALS:

HERE’S HOW IT USED TO BE:

Scripture is infallible. my interpretation of it is not. Yours isn’t either.

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.

I’m not happy. I’m strung out. Thats’s not me.

How do we deal appropriately with a sister denomination about which we have concerns (see “Don’t Turn Away,” p.

Joking apart, my wife, Margo, and I have accepted a call extended by West End Christian Reformed Church in Edmonton, Alberta.

The news report on my car radio announced that the towers had fallen and that there was further mayhem at the Pentagon.

Your July Banner came late so we could catch you up on the latest news from Synod 2006, the Christian Reformed Church’s annual lead

Some delegates to synod (the annual meeting of the Christian Reformed Church) feel the need to speak to every issue.

I respect and value Baptists. I even dated a girl from Moody Bible Institute when I attended Trinity Christian College, near Chicago.

As a greenhorn seminary intern I found my first church council meeting overwhelming.

Can You Believe it?

There’s this schemer, this shlemiel.

In this Banner Professor Don Oppewal observes that Christian Reformed folks tend to look only to the Bible to answer divisive is

“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven” (Eccl. 3:1). There is a time…

Last December I invited Banner readers to join me in placing just a single item on our Christmas wish list: a goat.

Nature flicks rarely pierce our souls. But that’s what March of the Penguins did to me.

Sigh. A call from a Cadet counselor bugs me.

This Banner is heavy on discipleship issues—how we can become more mature followers of Jesus and help others do the same