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You make one decision for biblical reasons, but then you might run into some contradictions.

The purpose of church discipline is to restore to Christ those who are sinning.

Nate Van Denend, pastor of First Christian Reformed Church in Chatham, Ont., welcomed the online assembly of Synod 2025 as pastor of the gathering’s host church.

Championing a Honduran coffee co-op, Roy Heerema arranged to bring along more than 50 pounds to the May Council of Delegates meeting.

Jerome and Ella Mae Cupido, members of West End Christian Reformed Church in Edmonton, Alta., are manufacturing hand-fed balers in Kenya, using “gifts of invention and craftsmanship not just for our own benefit but to benefit others.”

On a Tuesday evening in early April, an audience sat enraptured in Princeton Theological Seminary’s dining hall as, one by one, adults in their 20s walked up to a platform, took the microphone and shared a story.

The acclaimed Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir releases a joyful new worship album.

This shares the epic, tragic story of the Puritan conquest of New England through the eyes of those who lived it.

This book offers a joyous reminder that every child was created by God with beauty and purpose, told in fun rhymes with a powerful message and vibrant illustrations.

Do we choose God or does God choose us? Admittedly, there are Bible passages to support both.

The delegates to Synod 2025 of the Christian Reformed Church in North America elected four pastors as officers to this year’s meeting: two who served Synod 2024 and two first-time officers.

“As we look back with gratitude to God on these 150 years, we also look ahead with purpose.”

In Owls Mate for Life, James Paauw chronicles the dramatic seven-month survival struggle of his wife, Liz, following a high-speed head-on motor vehicle crash.

My parents need more support, but my siblings don’t want to help. How can I get them to step up and honor their father and mother?

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My lifelong Christian identity meant patriarchal Abraham had been my spiritual father. But now I realized l also had a genetic connection to him.

Since 1997 the Crossroads Community Ministries arm of Madison Avenue CRC in Paterson, N.J., has operated discipleship houses for residential-based recovery and transformation.

While our national discourse rightfully condemns Islamophobia and antisemitism, the systematic persecution of Christians around the world receives only a fraction of our collective outrage.

Middle-grade readers will learn the little-known story of Mamie Tape, an 8-year-old Chinese American girl whose family fought for her right to attend public school in San Francisco.

After a brain injury erases the past eight years of Dr. Amy Larsen's life, she must navigate an unfamiliar world where she has no recollection of patients, colleagues, the soulmate she divorced, the man she now loves, or the tragedy that caused her to push everyone away.

Dr. Ana Claudia Quintana Arantes's viral TED Talk on end-of-life care cemented her, a palliative care doctor in Brazil, as a global leader on living and dying well.

A GEMS Club in Kenya received notes and handmade gifts from Friendship Christian Reformed Church’s GEMS Club in Byron Centre, Mich.