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About 400 ministry leaders attended “GC2: Facing Hard Truths and Challenges of Pastoral Ministry” at the Billy Graham Center in Wheaton, Ill., last Friday.

As a recognition of Peace Week in late November, the Sarnia-Lambton (Ont.) YMCA presented its Peace Medallion to Christian Reformed Church member Henny Drope, for 25 years of volunteer service in welcoming refugees.

At the “Safe Spaces” conference Nov. 16 the Safe Church Ministry partnership for the B.C. Christian Reformed churches welcomed author Jay Stringer to help ministry leaders and others face realities of sexual brokenness.

The church is a community of vulnerability. And God intends that to be our strength.

“Muslims are famously unlikely to convert. We knew from the beginning that it would be God’s Holy Spirit at work if we saw anyone at all follow Jesus.”

However one is involved in ministry, it is important to recognize these “not yet” moments and encourage each other along the journey. Here are two stories of hope within unresolved ministry.

Bill Renkema, missionary, church planter and pastor, died Oct. 28. He had an unwavering faith and said of what he wished he could still do, “I’d tell more people about Jesus.” 

Pastor, theologian and professor, Paul Szto, died Oct. 22 in New York City. He was 95.

The author of Radical takes readers on a soul-searching journey through impoverished villages in the Himalayan mountains.

An award-winning, harrowing novel about two orphans living in Newfoundland.

Jeremy Camp’s 12th studio album dazzles with electronic beats and stirring lyrics.

How can we trust that the Bible we have is any good if the canon was selected by the early church and preserved by church tradition?

How do you keep warm in the winter? Maybe you wear a sweater or a winter coat. But how do animals keep themselves warm?

Life, in the Bible, is relatedness. It is about belonging, body and soul, to God, and secondarily, to belong in a community.

You cannot resolve the conflicts within your parents’ marriage that are highlighted by these political differences.

It was mid-December. We were all waiting. But we weren't waiting like the rest of the world.

The senior boys’ volleyball team at Smithville (Ont.) Christian High School are 2019 Ontario champions, earning the Boys’ A title for the second time in six years.

First Christian Reformed Church in Bellflower, Calif., honored nine of their military veteran members Nov. 10, presenting quilts made by volunteer organization Quilts of Valor.

A podcaster finds a new calling when he gets a friend request from God.

A leading historian of evangelicalism offers a concise history of evangelicals and how they became who they are today.

A poetic picture book celebrates the surprise of friendship.

카드: 만약 제가 완전히 동의하는 기사만 싣는다면 저는 배너를 저의 사적인 확성기로 만드는 잘못을 저지르게 됩니다.

The Savior has come and is coming again. In our foolishness, as we wait for this return, we often put our sights on the material idols of our day.