On Valentine's Day, and all year long, we talk about our hearts a lot.
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Read our regular columns on Faith Matters, Big Questions, Christian apologetics, Editorials, the Discover page (especially for kids), the Vantage Point, the Other Six, and letters from Christian Reformed Church members and our readers. Our online-only columns are As I Was Saying and Behind the Banner.
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This historical drama, which follows England’s King George VI (Colin Firth) and his struggle with a speech impediment, is genial
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During a unit on the solar system in December, the kindergartners learned about the planets, sun, and moon.
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In this fictional picture book based on the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Junior is trapped beneath rubble.
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Movies love to celebrate forgiveness—that's why so many end in the glow of reconciliation. Get Low is different.
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Gudenkauf's first novel narrates child abduction in cold, chiseled strokes.
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Yarhouse is weakest when trying to summarize a definitive "Scriptural" position on homosexuality, quickly drawing conclusion
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The largest church in the United States is Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. It holds 43,500 people.
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Christian Living
Q. Every morning I wake up afraid. My body is getting weaker, and my resources are shrinking.
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Abortion
Thank you for your January editorial bringing light to the abortion issue ("Security for Whom?")
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A friend told me about several couples whose babies had a serious genetic condition that results in severe deformity and death.
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The hissing of the breathing machine was the only noise in the room.
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For six years the "every household Banner" has been privileged to serve as our denominational kitchen table—a place wh
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Historically, the church’s ministry of grounding new believers in the essentials of Christian faith has been known as catechesis
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An elderly man rushed into the doctor’s office and shouted, “Doctor! I think I’m shrinking!!”
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God gave you some pretty wonderful senses.
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Mission
Q I’d like to give my time and money to organizations in my community.
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A Modest Proposal
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I am a convert to social justice. For a long time I found it easy to make excuses not to help the poor.
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Let the wicked forsake their ways
and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the Lord, and he will
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It’s scary how easily the media swing our attention away from what really matters to what really doesn’t.
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It must be a thankless job to write for a sci-fi TV show.
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While picking up some groceries, a retiree noticed a woman with a girl about 3 years old.
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“Deck the halls with boughs of holly, fa la la la la, la la la la. ‘Tis the season to be __________ . .