What does it mean to “give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s”?

In one way or another, it seems Christians keep coming back to the question What makes the church the church right here, right now?

인간에게는 다섯 가지 두려움이 있다고 합니다. 이는 제가 10여년 전에 교목이었을 때, 학생 소그룹 모임을 이끌면서 알게 된 것입니다. 

After I’ve set up each room, made sure the stories are complete, and accounted for the snacks and cups, then I get to pray.

Working conditions that [clothing] factory workers deal with are terrible. 

We need to discern between right and wrong, good and evil. That is not optional. Neither is holding people accountable for their actions.

Much of what we “know” about hell stems from the imagination of poets and artists. But how much is true?

The rhetoric of our increasingly politically and religiously polarized world—from all sides—tends to exploit our sin-based fears.

Surrounded by a preacherhood of all believers, we have more than enough resources to deeply engage God’s Word through creation—if we’re willing.

One of our greatest hopes for our friends in Bethania is that they might believe, think, and act outside the myth of scarcity—and live instead into the liturgy of abundance.

One of the most important theological distinctions—a distinction with vast implications for how we understand God, our world, and ourselves—is the difference between the God who pushes and the God who pulls.

It is tempting for a long-married couple to think of sexual (romantic) intimacy in isolation from the rest of the relationship. 

Here, I talk to my friends, and in their addictions, I see my own. In their mental battles, mine. In their broken relationships, their endless struggles, their long, slow, slog, mine.

The next time you reach for a salt shaker, remember that as a follower of Jesus, you are the salt of the earth.

Retired Christian Reformed pastor Henry Wildeboer once lamented, “I love the Lord and I love his church. So it grieves me to learn that the Christian Reformed Church declined in membership.

He wrote, “While the church is shrinking in North America, globally the church is growing.” 

Divorce rocked my world when my spouse left me. Now, as my 30s draw to a close, I’m alone and a single parent—certainly not by choice

Teaching children with different degrees of Bible knowledge is a challenge for teachers in church education and in day schools. 

After a short conversation—with me communicating via a computerized voice machine and using a wheelchair for mobility—the man turned his back on me and asked Eric, “So . . . do you take care of her?” 

The room was quiet as the two men shared their stories. Both told of heartbreak and loss. 

Because all of us are capable of all kinds of evil, we need to prepare in advance so that we can make safe environments to focus on the gospel of Jesus Christ.

In November of 2016, my sister was diagnosed with breast cancer after a routine mammogram.

In our present context, discipleship means a long-term commitment to obey the commands of Jesus: to model our lives after him, allowing ourselves to be changed as we journey so that we may become like him in character.