January 2007
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Features
Sunday Morning Parenting
How parents and churches can make worship a highlight for kidsREAD MORESunday mornings can be the low point in a kid’s week.
Women In Office: Continuing the Conversation
Thinking Aloud About Synod 2006’s DecisionsREAD MOREAs Bob De Moor points out in his editorial, halting discussion about women’s participation in the leadership of the church does
News
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Bible Way Sunday school curriculum published by CRC Publications in 1972 is taking on new life as El Camino de la Biblia
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Men’s Cross Country Captures National Title
For the third time in four years, the Calvin College men’s cross-countr
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Muskegon ( Mich.
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Bearing witness to the Christian Reformed Church’s commitment to Christian day school education, Classis Northern Illinois delegat
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President Bush should adopt an aggressive policy—guided by faith, not politics—to end the violence in Sudan’s western
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Michigan’s science educators must teach evolution, not creationism, the state Board of Education decided unanimously in October.
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More than 500 people turned out for a joint Reformation Day service at First Christian Reformed Church, Sheldon, Iowa.
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Lumber, sawdust, and the Bible are the ingredients a small group of men from Daybreak Community Christian Reformed Church in Valparaiso
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Being a pastor’s spouse can feel a lot like living in a fish bowl.
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Christian Reformed Home Missions announced recently that its staff-specialist positions will be relocated out of the bi-national office
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Roman Catholic bishops in the U.S.
In Memoriam
Rev. Nicolaas B. KnoppersREAD MOREMarch 3, 1917 - October 28, 2006
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The girls’ volleyball team from Western Christian High School in Hull, Iowa, captured its fifth state title in seven years.
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On Nov.
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It was a long trip from northern Sudan to Worthington (Minn.) Christian Reformed Church for Rev.
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In 1906 a few missionaries in Rehoboth, N.M., gathered to worship in a small adobe building that doubled as a dormitory for young Navajo
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In 1906 a few missionaries in Rehoboth, N.M., gathered to worship in a small adobe building that doubled as a dormitory for young Navajo
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Six West Michigan pastors—all in their 30s—are leading an effort to unite people who hope for a redirection of the Christian
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Nicaragua was the setting for the seventh global conference organized by the International Association for the Promotion of Christian Hi
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With support and funding from the council and deacons at First Christian Reformed Church, Calgary, Alberta, Jenny Krabbe’s dream fo
Columns
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These are the days of darkness in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Church
Q: In a previous Banner you said that anyone appointed by a consistory may lead a worship
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Alice Sluiter De Boer mows her own lawn, bakes pies, drives herself around her rural town, and attends weekly church activities.
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Has it snowed at your home yet? If you live in the northern United States or in Canada, it probably has.
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Grief for the Unborn
I was thrilled to finally see an article on the grief of miscarriage (“Losses of the Heart,”
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My Spiritual mother, the Christian Reformed Church, turns 150 this year, and I anticipate the thankful celebration.
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It is always intriguing for me to read the various notices in Christianity Today, First Things, and similar publications announ
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A pastor was having an awful time with his congregation and eventually decided to pack it in.
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CD
The True False Identity
by T Bone Burnett
reviewed by Robert N. Hosack
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Scripture is infallible. my interpretation of it is not. Yours isn’t either.
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Jesus-powered superkids, demonic assassins, and faith-propelled boulders?
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My title betrays a typically North American way of thinking and talking. We want to know how something works.
Our Shared Ministry
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That’s because Sterk is this year’s official Calvin Lecturer, part of the Calvin Worldview Lectureship cosponsored by Christ
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For generations God has produced a living faith in the hearts of believers.
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My father was both a pastor and a furniture maker. He found his calling in the church and his hobby in the workshop.
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Noah Diall is the father of four.
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Preaching professor Thomas Long once observed that good preaching is exactly what it looks like: hard work done under pressure.
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James and Otis Pewee have an extraordinary tale to tell. What’s even more remarkable is that they’re alive to tell it.
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Because I always hear your radio program every morning, my family and I were saved,” wrote Mrs.
