Synod 2008

Thanks for the thorough and balanced coverage of synod. What a rich denomination we are part of!

We wish we’d had enough room to run the full versions (below) of these two letters in the February 2010 print Banner.

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Now that John Calvin’s 2009 whirlwind world tour is over, The Banner is pleased to inaugurate a brand-

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

Did you know that the earth is a “closed system”?

Church

Q If elders and pastors no longer regularly visit congregation members in their ho

Epiphanies

I found the visual graphic of the fist on page 7 of the January 2010 Banner both startling and unsettling.

The findings from the recent survey of Christian Reformed churches and their members (see “Who We Are Today,” p.

. . .

I’ve been pondering something that popped up in our church’s senior high catechism class (yeah, that catechism and it’s

I was watching my 5-year-old boy kneeling by his bed. He was saying his bedtime prayer.

It might have been Sunday evening
Suppertime after 6:00 p.m.

When I first began writing this article, I had a specific person in mind—someone whose behavior was extremely . . . inspiring.

This is all about you. It’s about your insides and how well they were designed.

My Parkinson’s disease puts me in some unpredictable predicaments,
such as a new rigid prescription drug schedule
that

Finances

Q This economy is choking the life out of us.

How sad when we get caught in the commercial busyness trap of Christmas (“Sooooo Busy!” December 2009).

On Sunday mornings the community of First Christian Reformed Church, Vancouver, gathers to worship the triune God, Creator and Redeemer o

An epiphany is a burglary in progress.

A generations-old New Year’s tradition has the De Moors reading Psalm 91 right after the clock has struck 12 and the hugs have gone

One day when my daughter Azaeleah was 3 years old, she asked her dad, “Papa, was Joseph a shepherd?”

I think tonight I found some Magi.

Have you ever imagined what it would be like to be in Bethlehem on the first Christmas? Let’s try it.