January 2010
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Features
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I’m about to say something just a bit shocking. It’s highly controversial.
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Last week a colleague walked into one of our offices and asked, “Just how important is reading the Bible?” The response: &ldq
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Opening the closet door to look for wrapping paper, I saw it hanging in solitude.
News
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Three dozen adults from Christian Reformed churches across North America traveled to the West Bank in Palestine this past summer to encou
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Children of prison inmates are learning about God through new cartoon-style correspondence Bible lessons from Crossroad Bible Institute (
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As legislation to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide makes its way through the Canadian Parliament, the Christian Reformed Church&r
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When the secretary of Grace Christian Reformed Church of Cobourg, Ontario, arrived at church on Friday, November 13, she was in for a sur
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Elise Van Pelt, 8, earned $50 doing chores and wanted to put it to God’s use. Could she buy Bibles for the homeless?
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North American staff members of Christian Reformed World Missions (CRWM) and the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC) are sa
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As the wives and children of two Christian Reformed missionary families arrived in the U.S.
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Things are tough all over. That old adage is certainly true today as most people feel the effects of a depressed economy.
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Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa, has received an estate gift worth nearly $4 million.
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While coordinating a service trip for her son and others with special needs back in 2005, Donna Bunce, a member of Haven Christian Reform
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June 22, 1918 – May 17, 2009
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1918-2009
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For the second year in a row, Trinity Christian Reformed Church of Rock Valley, Iowa, bought and packaged meals for the Feed My Starving
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Inmates at a correctional facility near Portland, Ore., helped make restitution when they contributed to opening a men’s homeless s
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New Era (Mich.) Christian Reformed Church celebrated its 125th anniversary in late summer of 2009.
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Coffee, music, and talent combined for an evening of casual outreach and worship at the Kentville (Nova Scotia) Christian Reformed Church
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Farmers from Christian Reformed churches in Thunder Bay, Ontario, banded together with other local farmers to grow a field of barley that
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After an arsonist destroyed Seattle’s popular Green Bean coffeehouse on October 23, it reopened in a new temporary location at the
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After time to monitor the situation, the Christian Reformed Church’s crisis management team has downgraded the risk warnings for bo
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A Florida church began creating its own discipleship videos to reach members who are too busy—or otherwise unable—to attend B
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First Lt.
Columns
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An epiphany is a burglary in progress.
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When I first began writing this article, I had a specific person in mind—someone whose behavior was extremely . . . inspiring.
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Finances
Q This economy is choking the life out of us.
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It might have been Sunday evening
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A generations-old New Year’s tradition has the De Moors reading Psalm 91 right after the clock has struck 12 and the hugs have gone
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This is all about you. It’s about your insides and how well they were designed.
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Recently I became a tweeter.
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How sad when we get caught in the commercial busyness trap of Christmas (“Sooooo Busy!” December 2009).
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I was watching my 5-year-old boy kneeling by his bed. He was saying his bedtime prayer.
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My Parkinson’s disease puts me in some unpredictable predicaments,
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On Sunday mornings the community of First Christian Reformed Church, Vancouver, gathers to worship the triune God, Creator and Redeemer o
Our Shared Ministry
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One of the greatest joys in my work is the opportunity to visit churches across North America and meet the folks who are the heart and fa
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Every weekday morning, New York City listeners tune in to Victor Cruz’s Internet radio show to hear the comedian’s jokes and fun
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In southern Sudan, thousands of people are returning home after spending more than 20 years in refugee camps.
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Last summer I participated in “Facing Your Future” (FYF) at Calvin Theological Seminary.
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Rev.
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In Aceh, on the northern tip of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, there is a village called Teungoh Blang Mee.
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When disasters strike, CRWRC must make a decision about how best to respond.
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For Calvin philosophy professor Kelly Clark, it began on a lark.
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Sunil, a young man from a Hindu family in India, discovered Mahima Ke Vachan, and it changed his life.