The Belgic Confession clearly has a powerful early history. But does it have any lasting significance for our churches today? Is it more than a historical document established as one of the three confessional standards of the Christian Reformed Church? In what ways does the Belgic Confession still speak to us today?

What is a vegetable, a grain, and a fruit all at the same time?

In terms of orthodoxy in faith and practice, it seems to me that the Christian Reformed Church has more in common with A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians than with the Reformed Church in America.

When I first met Attie, I was a sleep-deprived mess of nerves and disappointment.

My earliest memories of Holy Communion are set in a small church in rural Netherlands. In that place and in those times, the pious took the apostle Paul’s injunctions regarding righteous living at face value.

As much as I lament the decline of the institutional church, I also lament the fact that we are still stuck in our old ways of trying to get people to church.

What does it mean to “give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s”?

In one way or another, it seems Christians keep coming back to the question What makes the church the church right here, right now?

인간에게는 다섯 가지 두려움이 있다고 합니다. 이는 제가 10여년 전에 교목이었을 때, 학생 소그룹 모임을 이끌면서 알게 된 것입니다. 

After I’ve set up each room, made sure the stories are complete, and accounted for the snacks and cups, then I get to pray.

Working conditions that [clothing] factory workers deal with are terrible. 

We need to discern between right and wrong, good and evil. That is not optional. Neither is holding people accountable for their actions.

Much of what we “know” about hell stems from the imagination of poets and artists. But how much is true?

The rhetoric of our increasingly politically and religiously polarized world—from all sides—tends to exploit our sin-based fears.

Surrounded by a preacherhood of all believers, we have more than enough resources to deeply engage God’s Word through creation—if we’re willing.

One of our greatest hopes for our friends in Bethania is that they might believe, think, and act outside the myth of scarcity—and live instead into the liturgy of abundance.

One of the most important theological distinctions—a distinction with vast implications for how we understand God, our world, and ourselves—is the difference between the God who pushes and the God who pulls.

It is tempting for a long-married couple to think of sexual (romantic) intimacy in isolation from the rest of the relationship. 

Here, I talk to my friends, and in their addictions, I see my own. In their mental battles, mine. In their broken relationships, their endless struggles, their long, slow, slog, mine.

The next time you reach for a salt shaker, remember that as a follower of Jesus, you are the salt of the earth.

Retired Christian Reformed pastor Henry Wildeboer once lamented, “I love the Lord and I love his church. So it grieves me to learn that the Christian Reformed Church declined in membership.

He wrote, “While the church is shrinking in North America, globally the church is growing.” 

Divorce rocked my world when my spouse left me. Now, as my 30s draw to a close, I’m alone and a single parent—certainly not by choice