That’s what I told my son after he sat me down and told me he wants to become a woman. My son was baptized in the CRC. He attended Sunday school and youth groups and went on mission trips.

Have you ever driven yourself to your destination with no memory of the drive? Or perhaps you’ve discovered yourself lost in a daydream when you intended to be in prayer? Mindfulness can help you focus on the now.

Discipleship is about learning to love, follow, obey, and become more and more like Jesus.

By one account, thunder peeled in loud claps—then rain showers—but as soon as it appeared it peacefully went away, a rainbow appeared overhead, and this feeling of calm came over Carl.

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Jesus held his threefold office in perfect balance. We do not. In fact, we are prone to emphasize one of the offices at the expense of the other two. Each of us is lopsided. What’s worse, our lopsidedness does more than hinder our personal growth. It also causes us to discount other believers who do not share the same lopsidedness.

As our society dives deeper into a digital world, the church has an opportunity to directly address what is unseen.

물론, 우리가 왜 하는지, 무엇을 하는지도 중요하지만 어떻게 하는지 역시 하나님 앞에 중요합니다.

She deeply regretted not saying “I love you.” It was something they always did. But she hadn’t done it that one time.

It’d be an overstatement to say it has changed my life, but it certainly has changed the focus of my life.

We, as believers in Jesus, in the church, are people who are called to action. Yet we all have unique backgrounds, and we come from a variety of ethnicities.

Just as the addax was designed with special features for life in the harsh desert, we as God’s children are designed with a purpose in mind.

Can’t someone make commitments and keep promises to a church without being a member?

Her story dates back more than 350 years to the Spice Islands of the Indonesian archipelago and the wars that erupted over their control.

What do we do with all the promises for peace on Earth that got stirred up during the Advent and Christmas seasons?

I have gone from pulling weeds on Sunday to pruning back unruly shrubs and even, on occasion, to mowing the grass. After church we sometimes join friends for Sunday brunch at a restaurant. I do not wear a WWJD bracelet, but I do wonder how Jesus would react.

When we are broken and humbled, acts of kindness convey God’s care in ways that spark and refresh our sense of being called to serve God.

I can choose to hit each note precisely and be on my own or I can elect to more or less sing the right notes in a kind of approximate way but at least be singing along with the others.

He tried to say at the end that creation, like salvation, is all about grace, but it seems to me that environmental sermons are a bit fluffy and sermons instead should be about the gospel of the saving grace of Jesus

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Why and what we do matters, yes, but how we do it also matters to God.

Given time to reassess, to think about what the potential outcomes could have been, I would have made a different decision. I would not have swerved.

There seem to be only three persons absolutely necessary to make a marriage a Christian marriage: the man, the woman, and God.