September 2007
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Features
News
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The 25 Asian congregations in the Christian Reformed Church have tended to be scattered and isolated, but that has changed.
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Face painting, cotton candy, balloons, and The Back to God Hour?
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Some seminarians at Calvin Theological Seminary breathed a sigh of relief when a 12-percent reduction in their course load was announced
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When Calvary Christian Reformed Church in Holland, Mich., paid off its building debt in 2006, it launched a Year of Jubilee to rais
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Churches from Classis Minnkota (a regional group of congregations) gathered in Edgerton, Minn., to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the
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Disaster Response Services of the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee has signed a partnership agreement with Reformed Church World
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Launched to share God’s love with people who have cognitive impairments, Friendship Ministries is celebrating 25 years.
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There was a coronation at the GEMS Counselor’s Leadership Conference, but it wasn’t for a beauty pageant.
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Rev. Orwin W. Duistermars
1922 – 2007
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Rev. Clarence Boomsma
1917 – 2007
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Rev. Gerald J. Postma
1921 – 2007
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If a group of 45 people who gathered in Washington, D.C., have their way, Christian Reformed congregations are going to hear a lot more a
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In late July the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported that deadly clashes between the ethnic group
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This summer Calvin Theological Seminary’s Facing Your Future program reached a milestone.
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The Sioux Falls (S.D.) Christian High boy’s golf team captured its third straight state title last spring, with a definite Christia
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For Devon Scott, 16, leading kids at a summer sports camp is a “cool opportunity,” especially when he gets to tell the camper
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In March 2006 Laurel Wallinga, 24, a registered nurse at Zeeland (Mich.) Hospital, began to pray for an opportunity to serve in the medic
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Jeff Kruithof took the reins as executive director of Youth Unlimited this August when Rachael Cooley, director for the past three years,
Columns
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Sometimes the most ordinary things are the most interesting. This month we’ll take a look at something we see and use every day.
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Theology
Q: When does the end justify the means?
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Theology
Q When does the end justify the means?
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When 26-year-old farmer and youth elder Josh Lubach from Ponoka, Alberta, politely agreed to an interview for this column, he was happy t
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In 2005 the annual leadership convention of our denomination, synod, challenged Christian Reformed congregations to make faith nurture, o
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Eppinga is waiting for his ship to come in. It won’t. Meanwhile, he has asked me to write his column for a few months.
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Where Did Our Young Adults Go?
The article “Where did our Young Adults Go?” (August 2007) brings out a problem that m
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For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
—Psalm 139:13
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It’s easy to be cynical about spiritual memoirs as publishers seem to mine the market for all its worth.
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The Christian Reformed Church continues on its dangerous journey.
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A husband asked his wife how she thought he’d look in a beard.
“Lonely,” she replied.
Our Shared Ministry
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It’s been quite a year!
The Christian Reformed Church’s 150th anniversary, with its theme of “Grace Through Eve
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As a Christian Reformed campus minister at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Mich., Mike Wissink spends much of his time praying wit
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A Calvin College communications arts and sciences professor and two students traveled to a Quechua community in Ecuador recently to make
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The Christian church in the Holy Land is made up mostly of Palestinian Christians who have kept the faith since the days of the early chu
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How focusing on person, perspective, and practice helps
“We need pastors who know how to lead a congregation!”
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Imagine that you have just arrived in Grand Rapids, Mich., from Edmonton, Alberta, as a first-year student at Calvin Theological Seminary
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Canceling Sunday morning services is not the usual way to plant a church.
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The CRC’s vision statement begins: “The Christian Reformed Church is a diverse body of healthy congregations, assemblies, and
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Tom Buursma served as a church planting missionary in the Philippines for four-and-a-half years before enrolling at Calvin Theological Se