When people ask whether there was death before the fall, they’re not all asking the same question.
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Each year, AIDS kills more people than tsunamis, hurricanes, and earthquakes combined. So why are we IGNORING AN ONGOING HORROR?
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In my personal time with the Lord, I’ve been studying about waiting on God.
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Occasionally, and often tangentially, I pick up in conversations and in periodicals in the Reformed community the terms general revel
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Jake noticed her the day after she moved in.
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In the coming decade, retiring pastors will outnumber people entering the ministry.
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Your heart races alarmingly, thudding in your chest and ears. Your blood pressure soars.
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This play is intended to be used in informal settings—maybe around the dinner table or in front of the fireplace with your famil
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Christmas is a wonderfully glorious season.
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I first saw the Tree of Hope during the 2003 Christmas season. At that time I worked at the World Financial Center in Lower Manhattan.
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Editor’s note: From June 25 to Sept.
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In about 15 hours I’ll board a plane in Grand Rapids, Mich.—the start of a long journey to Seoul, South Korea.
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In Leo Tolstoy’s short novelThe Death of Ivan Ilych, a godless, self-centered man struggles through a long and painful dea
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Before I Bought it, my car was in a bad accident. The story goes like this: One day a young couple near Chicago ordered a new vehicle.
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I always feel kind of uptight and tense when I visit high schools. This time is certainly no exception. I arrive just as the bell rings.
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When it comes to racial and ethnic diversity in the Christian Reformed Church, these are the best of times—and the worst of times.
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Twelve years ago my wife, Coby, and I found ourselves facing some of the most significant crossroads and challenges of our lives.
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When we decided to send our three children to a Christian day school, we weren’t operating under the influence of “CRC auto-
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The president of the university where I worked as a campus minister once told me about a call he received from an irate parent:
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Some weeks ago I made a pastoral call on an elderly believer, one firm in her faith though she suffers a great deal of physical pain.
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"Gospel Glory" by Cornelius Plantinga Jr., August 2004, pp.
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I went to a worship service recently that made my ears ring for 24 hours afterward.
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At the Beginning of time, the Chief of Spin came to the first woman and asked her a question.
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If you’re a churchgoer, you’ve undoubtedly found yourself in the middle of a swirling controversy at some point.