December 2007
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Features
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I am the first person in our house to rise.
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The only scooter in our house was at least 20 years old and broken.
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We look forward to the holidays, a time of goodwill and good times, a time of love and togetherness.
The Rest of Our Story
Ever heard of “the German element” in the CRC?READ MOREBoth Rev.
Worship Wars Reconsidered
Could they really be God’s gift to the church?READ MOREThe recent worship wars are God’s gift to the church.
What?
News
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Facing the future of the Christian Reformed Church was the topic that brought 250 people to a conference in Grand Rapids, Mich., in Septe
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So many gifts, so many people, so many generations.
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For five years now 200 members of Orland Park (Ill.) Christian Reformed Church gather in mid-December to assemble Christmas gift baskets
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Each year when the Lighted Farm Implement Parade is held in Sunnyside, Wash., members of Sunnyside Christian Reformed Church are on hand
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While firefighters sought to squelch the deadly wildfires across thousands of acres of Southern California, the Christian Reformed World
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With members hailing from 31 different nations, South Kendall Community Christian Reformed Church had good reason to celebrate All Nation
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In December 2004, Banner Editor Bob DeMoor urged readers to “get his goat.” To date, more than 5,500 readers have respo
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While the whole denomination celebrated its 150th anniversary, First Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Mich., also celebrated it
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Harderwyk Christian Reformed Church in Holland, Mich., recently celebrated its 125th anniversary, while Providence CRC, also in Holland,
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Every year at Avery Street Christian Reformed Church in South Windsor, Conn., Sunday school children decorate a tree with Chrismons.
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For the past five years the young people of Valley Christian Reformed Church in Binghamton, N.Y., have staged a live nativity for the com
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A play about gay Christians, written by Calvin College drama professor Stephanie Sandberg, sold out on its opening night in September and
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For the past decade, Maria and Pieter Vlaming brave the wind and cold to deliver Christmas parcels to truck drivers who have to be out on
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Churches in northcentral Iowa celebrated the Christian Reformed Church’s 150th birthday with worship services in Parkersburg Sept.
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Fellowship, Christmas carols, communion, and homemade treats—these are a few of their favorite things.
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Two thousand Christian Reformed Church members gathered at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, Calif., in October to celebrate God&rsq
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The closure of a rural church in southern Ontario has split families and grieved churches across Classis Chatham (a regional group of chu
Columns
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Away in a Manger
The kitchen sink, the dog’s bowl, and the milk jug are all necessary things but not ones to inspire great
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In 1866 German immigrants founded a Christian Reformed congregation among the fertile fields of northern Illinois, 25 miles west of Rockf
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Like a fly on a wall, I too can eavesdrop. I overhear because I am overlooked. Like God. Sometimes I get an earful.
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The Common Cup coffee house in Rogers Park, Ill., looks and feels like many neighborhood java joints in the Chicago area.
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Finance
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“Santa” was good to me last Christmas (see editorial, Dec. ’06 issue). I got goats for HIV/AIDS orphans in Africa.
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One of the final chapters in Harry Emerson Fosdick’s autobiography The Living of These Days is titled “Ideas That Have Used M
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Dinner, Anyone?
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Baptized in a Violent World
A Christian response to violence should involve not just undiscerning peace and mercy, but should inc
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Fifty years ago I was a young, inexperienced 5th- and 6th-grade teacher in a rural Christian school near Lynden, Wash.
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Last week as I went to sign out Saving Money with the Tightwad Twins: Practical Tips for Women on a Budget, the librarian said I had a $9
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One of my great joys of the Advent season is to bring up my large box of Christmas decorations from the basement.
Our Shared Ministry
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In his thirtieth letter to Rev. Jimmy Lin, 67-year-old “Mr.
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Calvin Theological Seminary recently received its largest single gift ever—more than $2 million—and it’s all going to s
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As difficult as it may be to imagine, another year is rapidly coming to a close.
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A culture dating back six millennia. One-fifth of the world’s population. For much of its history, closed to outside influences.
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It seemed like a painful ending.
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What happens when a highly educated and influential Muslim hears the gospel and is given the opportunity to respond in secret via cell ph
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The picture of John Calvin winking on the cover should be the giveaway: The Reformed Handbook sees things a little differently.
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Mentioning the seven deadly sins brings a lot to mind—just ask a teenager.
