July 2006
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Features
News
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Like everything else, the cost of doing ministry together rises every year.
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Synod 2006 ratified the appointments of three denominational leaders who were appointed by the CRC’s Board of Trustees in the past
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Synod 2006 saw the unveiling of a painting commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Christian Reformed Church, which will take place i
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Synod 2006 approved 34 candidates for the ministry of the Word. They are now eligible for ministry in the Christian Reformed Church.
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The 50th anniversary of the purchase of the Knollcrest Campus as home for Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary was celebrated b
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Synod 2006 put an end to the debate that occurs nearly every year as to whether candidates for the ministry should be approved individua
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Synod 2006 said that baptized children are part of God’s family and should be invited to partake in the Lord’s Supper with th
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The Judicial Code Committee of the denomination reported to synod that it did not conduct a hearing in the matter of a man from Colorado
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Synod 2006 broadened the category of “hardship” for churches in reporting their membership count.
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Synod 2006 completed the work of a previous synod in ending the Christian Reformed Church’s condemnation of the Roman Catholic Mass
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Synod 2006 authorized the CRC’s Interchurch Relations Committee to formally study the Belhar Confession to see if it is applicable
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Synod 2006 affirmed the acknowledgement by First Christian Reformed Church, Toronto , of the CRC’s official guidelines regarding h
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The italicized text below is what will be placed in brackets in the future with an explanation that the CRC no longer believes that text
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The format and style of synod’s opening service of prayer and praise will continue to be under the jurisdiction of the host church
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This was the first year the Synodical Ministerial Candidacy Committee (SMCC) presented candidates for the ministry to synod.
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In a discussion that started with many references to the Holy Spirit at work, Synod 2006 adopted a compromise about women in ecclesiastic
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Synod 2006 made some wonderful decisions, some surprising decisions, and some confusing decisions on behalf of the Christian Reformed Chu
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Peer-learning group coordinators in the Christian Reformed Church share their accomplishments at an annual meeting each November, but at
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Pastors from the Reformed Church in America may now be called to serve in the Christian Reformed Church.
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The Christian Reformed Church will stay in restricted ecclesiastical relationship with the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PCN).
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Synod 2006 approved a revised edition of the Ecumenical Charter that guides the CRC’s relationship with other denominations.
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Synod 2006 voted unanimously to appoint Rev. Gerard L.
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Synod approved the CRC Board of Trustees’ plan to support a healthy-churches initiative. The plan has two distinct parts.
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After several hours of vigorous debate, Synod 2006 called on Christian Reformed churches and agencies to be agents of peace and shalom.
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More people followed the deliberations of synod via the Internet this year than ever before.
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I’m delighted to report that your donations to the ministry of The Banner helped us meet the goal set by the denomination
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Synod 2006 approved Today’s New International Version of the Bible (TNIV) for use in the Christian Reformed Church, but not withou
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The Christian Reformed Church has an affiliation process, adopted in the mid-1980s, for congregations who wish to join the denomination.
Columns
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Would you like to see something really neat? Then check out a honeybee’s knees.
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Some delegates to synod (the annual meeting of the Christian Reformed Church) feel the need to speak to every issue.
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Almost before debate gets started, calls for the question arise from the floor.
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My husband was to fly in that night. No problem. I’d gladly meet him after a week’s separation.
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At that point in American cultural history when kids turned from swing sets to computers and from camping to video-game marathons, the C
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Emerging Church
Thank you, Mark Brouwer, for your thoughtful and enlightening article “The Emerging Church” (June
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A husband and wife walk into a dentist’s office. The man tells the dentist, “Doctor, I’m in a big hurry.
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fiction
The Illuminator
by Brenda Rickman Vantrease
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Most people are interested in their origins. Some who are adopted will go to great lengths to discover the identity of their parents.
Our Shared Ministry
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In the May issue of The Banner we introduced you to Mariama Baylo Balde, who suffered from a disfiguring tumor in her mouth and
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One day, when saints from every tribe and language and people and nation gather at the throne of the Lamb, a saint from the Middle East m
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Last month Peter Borgdorff wrote his “swan song”—his last “Dear Reader” column.
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If an adult had approached a teenage Darwin Glassford and predicted that he would be professor of church education at Calvin Theological
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Last summer I sat with some other North American visitors on rickety chairs under a mango tree in Uganda, East Africa.