March 2020
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Features
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God has always been interested in getting to the heart of the matter (pun intended), so why don’t we move away from the externals as well?
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As Christians, we need to dig deeper to find out what motivates our political groupings. If our leaders disagree on the right policies to pursue, it is often because they are effectively worshiping different and conflicting gods.
News
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For Resurrection Church, an emerging congregation of the Christian Reformed Church in Boston, Mass., connecting to the neighborhood means participating in what community organizations are already doing.
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At Hillcrest Christian Reformed Church the men’s discipleship program Every Man a Warrior has helped 45 men and counting to develop as followers of Christ.
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Peter Sluys lived a joyful life serving his Lord and Saviour. He died Nov. 8 in Edmonton, Alta., at the age of 92.
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“Rodg” Buining loved the Lord with all his heart, soul and mind. He served churches in six states. He died Nov. 26 at the age of 88.
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Art class students incarcerated at Earnest C. Brooks Correctional Facility in Muskegon, Mich., tell powerful stories with their art. Teacher Marianne Tanis is exhibiting their work at First Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids.
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A Christian Reformed congregation in rural western Michigan is making a difference in the lives of orphans and widows in Nigeria through personal connections.
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At Shoreline (Wash.) Christian Reformed Church Pastor Daniel Claus invited congregation members to create and share artwork inspired by the book of Revelation.
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Community Christian Reformed Church in Saginaw, Mich., has a population of about 40 members and serves more than 2,000 people a year with clothing, garden produce, and a place to play.
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For the first time, stated clerks from the U.S. and Canada gathered for learning and mutual support.
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At this year’s March for Life demonstration on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., president Donald Trump became the first-ever sitting president to offer an in-person address.
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Rick Mast felt supported as he ministered on campus following the deaths of 10 members of the University of Alberta academic community in the crash of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752.
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With a mission to “challenge, mentor, and enable students to think, work, and live as Christian disciples in the academy and in their professions,” Christian Reformed Campus Ministries at the University of Toronto, Ont., has been active for 50 years.
Our Shared Ministry
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Our church is praying, reading Scripture, and practicing other spiritual disciplines, historical and new, transforming our lives and communities for Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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At any given moment, there are members of the Christian Reformed Church in North America who are praying.
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- Seeing prayer as a relationship can feel especially freeing in challenging ministry contexts.
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As the head pastor, I welcomed the church’s birth in 1994 and presided over its closing in 2015.
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“But even in the midst of this newness, preaching to a screen, listening to the Word proclaimed via video, Lord, we know that the Holy Spirit is transcending it all.”
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Nuestra iglesia está orando, leyendo las Escrituras y practicando otras disciplinas espirituales, tanto históricas como nuevas, transformando nuestras vidas y comunidades para Cristo mediante el poder del Espíritu Santo.
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“Is this not what the church is all about—helping those in need?”
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우리 교회는 기도하고 성경을 읽으며 기타 영성 훈련을 통해 성령의 능력으로 우리의 삶과 공동체를 그리스도를 위해 변화 시킵니다.
Columns
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Five books about women who changed the world for the better, from the ancient deacon Phoebe, to mathematicians and pioneers.
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I set my bike on the ground and trotted over to the truck. Inside, a man was sitting upright behind the wheel, his head on his chest, his hands hanging limp in his lap. Something needed doing, but where to begin?
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Sometimes we talk this way as if we’re discussing the weather. Sometimes we talk this way, and the emotional weight of our common mortality hits us.
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The lyrical weaving of an African American family’s narratives, past, and present, in this debut Christian novel.
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What makes us think that God is portrayed differently in the Old Testament than in the New Testament?
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A warm and engaging look at the life and career of one of the finest singers of the 20th century.
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Have you ever driven yourself to your destination with no memory of the drive? Or perhaps you’ve discovered yourself lost in a daydream when you intended to be in prayer? Mindfulness can help you focus on the now.
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My church no longer reads the Ten Commandments in worship. Isn’t hearing the Commandments an important part of our faith formation?
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Are we identifying ourselves more by our politics than by our faith?
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See how readers responded to recent Banner issues, articles, and columns.
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Moral virtue is at once something that God produces in us and at the same time something we need to work at. Moral character, in other words, is a work in progress.
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In this middle-grade novel, a girl and her family get caught up in the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.
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The Two Popes ponders deep questions of faith and life.
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¿Nos estamos identificando más por nuestra política que por nuestra fe?
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Discipleship is about learning to love, follow, obey, and become more and more like Jesus.
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Is the opposite of fake news “authentic news?” Does that mean if people authentically believe something to be true, it is?
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Have you ever wondered why most animals have tails? What are they for? Just what do tails do anyway?
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That’s what I told my son after he sat me down and told me he wants to become a woman. My son was baptized in the CRC. He attended Sunday school and youth groups and went on mission trips.
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우리는 스스로를 신앙보다 정치로 규정하나요?
