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Melanie Kok, 24, earned a bronze medal in rowing at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.  Kok, a member of Trinity Christian Reformed Church i

On a sunny Saturday in September, members of 10 southern California Korean Christian Reformed churches gathered in Cerritos, Calif., for

When Hurricane Ike slammed into Haiti on Sept.

For Paul Buth, 54, the Sea to Sea tour provided opportunities to serve as well as cycle.

• Cycling days:    54

• Distance:    3,881 miles/ 6,245 km

A woman was at work when she received a phone call that her small daughter was very sick with a fever.

“In short, the Christian Reformed Church in North America, as we know it, is dying.” Rev. Sam Hamstra Jr.

Alyssa told me recently that what attracted her to our church was the sense that people are “alive and excited” about reachin

I can still hear the gentle waves under my feet.

A few years ago I had the honor of receiving an unusual call from God.

One of the most remarkable encounters in the gospels takes place between Jesus and the Canaanite woman who asks him to heal her demon-pos

Have you fed any elephants lately? Fixed the broken wing of a bird? Given a bat a home or welcomed a wolf?

I wonder

if you ever missed it,

the woodwork, I mean.  

Healing and pronouncing parables

As a child I loved to create things. That’s why I pursued a visual arts degree in college.

Relationships

Q It seems that once she became a teen, my daughter stopped sharing what&rs

Reforming Politics

In “Beyond Election Madness” (August 2008), Mike Hogeterp attempts a political commentary on justice that can speak to the en

Everything I know about church planting I learned from my father.

SHOULDN'T WE TELL THE TRUTH EVERYWHERE, EVEN IN CHURCH—es

Rev. Jake Eppinga has been with the Lord for some months now.

Every great party has its morning-after cleanup, and the Sea to Sea tour was no exception.

Early on in the tour, Katrina Miller of Gaylord, Mich., somehow became the designated weather announcer.

Imagine feeding a few hundred hungry cyclists every day for nine weeks.