February 2008
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Features
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I remember my first experience with mourning. I was in the first grade.
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The Golden Compass movie has created quite a stir for a number of reasons.
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In our local auto place, Dean, a mechanic, pulls me aside. “So, Keith,” he says, “head coverings.
Not Alone
Singleness from the Other Side . . . or What I Wish I Knew Then That I Know NowREAD MOREI know, I know.
News
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For two young orphans, ages 5 and 9, the future looks grim. They are East African siblings who are HIV positive.
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Roselawn, Ind., has a thriving food pantry because five couples from Community Christian Reformed Church in Roselawn responded to a chall
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Human trafficking generates $31 billion annually and enslaves 27 million people globally, half of them under the age of 18.
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Bringing young and old together has made the Heidelberg Catechism come alive for the congregation of East Leonard Christian Reformed Chur
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The Christian Reformed Church mobilized a special emergency-response team in January to monitor the situation in Kenya and ensure the saf
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The Christian Reformed Church in North America will host the inaugural meeting of the newly formed World Communion of Reformed Churches i
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Classis Lake Superior celebrated the Christian Reformed Church’s 150th anniversary in many ways and in many places.
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The Form of Subscription used by the Christian Reformed Church is getting a revision, but just how much it should be revised has stirred
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Fun, games, and sportsmanship rule at Ideal Park Christian Reformed Church’s Monday-evening sports camp in Wyoming, Mich.
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Rev. Karl J. Wiersum
Sept. 11, 1951 – Sept. 9, 2007
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Rev. Gerard Nonnekes
Jan. 2, 1927 - July 16, 2007
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When Discovery Christian Reformed Church of Bowmanville, Ontario, sent a group of people to Toronto’s Everything to Do with Sex sho
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Cyclists from the Reformed Church in America (RCA) are joining cyclists from the Christian Reformed Church for next summer’s cross-
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Two rural churches near Holland, Mich., joined hands and land to raise crops to benefit Cambodia this past year.
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Sioux Falls (S.D.) Christian High School had never won a state volleyball tournament in its 30-year history. That changed Nov.
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In honor of World AIDS day Dec.
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Tighter U.S.
Columns
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Bible
Q How can the Old Testament God who helps the Israelites destroy their enemies be t
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Fast from discontent.
Feast on gratitude.
Fast from anger.
Feast on patience.
Fast from worry.
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Have a Heart
Make a fist with your right hand and look at it. Your heart‘s about that size.
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How do we keep love from petrifying into law?
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Harry Potter
The cover and article concerning Harry Potter (“Harry Potter and the Way of Jesus”) in the January Banne
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One Sunday morning years ago I walked beside a less-than-mobile elderly lady toward the front steps of a Christian Reformed church.
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New to our church 10 years ago, my husband and I wanted to get to know more people.
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As in the movie Bridge to Terabithia, in which two friends create a magic kingdom to escape the troubles in their lives, Hollywood has al
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Thank you so much for “Pastoral Calls That Matter,” by Rev. Louis Tamminga (November 2007).
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eople are big! Jesus healed a blind man who, upon opening his eyes, said he saw people as trees walking (Mark 8:24).
Our Shared Ministry
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Hannah and Peter Oh knew only a little English when they immigrated to the United States from South Korea 12 years ago.
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The Four Winns boat-building factory in Cadillac, Mich., was at full throttle as Rev.
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Seminaries have sometimes been called “the graveyard of spirituality.” In their insistence that students master doctrine, chu
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A couple living in the village of Mambu, Cameroon, left home one morning before sunrise.
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Where can outcasts find a home, if not in the church? The Northern Lighthouse in Lincoln, Neb., has become that home for many.