October 2017
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Features
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You are going to die. We all are going to die.
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How does our Christian faith enable us to carry on when hope seems lost?
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I was born and raised in Malaysia.
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The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit
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In 2017, Christians are marking the Reformation’s 500th anniversary.
News
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Since 2010, Brooks (Alta.) Christian Reformed Church has operated a unique community garden that has become an important resource for the church’s neighbors.
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When Rick Abma, a Christian Reformed pastor at Neighbourhood Life in Lacombe, Alta., opened the doors
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Vernon J. Ehlers, who taught at Calvin College for 17 years and later became a Michigan state legislator and a United States congressman
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More than a decade has passed since U.S. Army Sgt. First Class Rick Herrema died during battle in Iraq in 2006.
In Memoriam: Rev. Kenneth Jay Verhulst
1940-2017READ MOREKen Verhulst ministered with a passion for social justice
In Memoriam: Rev. Kenneth Vander Heide
1931-2017READ MOREKenneth Vander Heide was born in McBain, Mich., in 1931, and died on July 30
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Arlette Zinck, associate professor at The King’s University in Edmonton, Alta., and a team of colleagues from King’s and two other universities
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The members visited two “care point” sites in Ethiopia
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Efforts by a Christian Reformed congregation in West Michigan to improve the water quality of a creek
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Imagine hosting 35 to 50 people for dinner once a week on a weeknight.
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The recent violence in Charlottesville, Va., tied to a protest over the removal of a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee,
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On July 31, Marie Strassenburg, a pianist at Hope Community Christian Reformed Church in Riverside, Calif., left her part-time job
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it’s quite unbelievable and certainly an amazing blessing from God what has happened to our church
Columns
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Usually ghost stories are about people being haunted by ghosts.
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Over the weekend of August 11-12 in Charlottesville, Va., violence broke out at a rally protesting the removal of a statue
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For good reason, the Presbyterian theologian Kevin Vanhoozer's latest book has been gathering a lot of attention
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Four years have passed since a young couple, Hector and Lilia, illegally crossed from Mexico into the United States.
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What is the source of Abraham Kuyper’s slogan on Christ’s lordship
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What do I do? When I was fixing the church computer
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Our bodies are amazing.
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Not found on many Christian Contemporary Music radio stations,
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someone at work has been coming on to me. It scares me and I don’t know what to do.
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In the heat and humidity of a July afternoon,
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A young girl and her mother live in a homeless shelter for women and children while her dad lives in a nearby shelter for men.
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The 500th anniversary has ushered in an influx of new books on the Reformation.
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Darlene Zschech wrote a beautiful hymn some 20 years ago called “The Potter’s Hand” that is still sung in congregations today.
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This October marks the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation.
Our Shared Ministry
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Aida Karwani almost lost all hope when the crops in her small garden began to fail.
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“I am honored and daunted by the responsibility that the president and executive committee have asked me to take up,
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One seed planted through a radio broadcast nearly 40 years ago has grown
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Mirah (name changed) was born into a Christian family.