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Read our regular columns on Faith Matters, Big Questions, Christian apologetics, Editorials, the Discover page (especially for kids), the Vantage Point, the Other Six, and letters from Christian Reformed Church members and our readers. Our online-only columns are As I Was Saying and Behind the Banner.
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Emerging Church
Thank you, Mark Brouwer, for your thoughtful and enlightening article “The Emerging Church” (June
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Would you like to see something really neat? Then check out a honeybee’s knees.
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Almost before debate gets started, calls for the question arise from the floor.
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A husband and wife walk into a dentist’s office. The man tells the dentist, “Doctor, I’m in a big hurry.
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Some delegates to synod (the annual meeting of the Christian Reformed Church) feel the need to speak to every issue.
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My husband was to fly in that night. No problem. I’d gladly meet him after a week’s separation.
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Most people are interested in their origins. Some who are adopted will go to great lengths to discover the identity of their parents.
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You don’t feel dizzy. You don’t see a line moving. Yet the earth moves in several ways.
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This page is generally devoted to introducing members of our church family to one another and to celebrating our diversity.
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This morning suffering is for the General Ministry of this church and the Christian Reformed denomination.
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Let’s Talk About Iraq
While I have considerable respect for both Jim Skillen and Kathy Vandergrift and their contribution
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This Summer Classis Holland is bringing an overture to synod requesting that we study the admission of all baptized members to th
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Formerly “Q&A,” this column is devoted to answering a broad range of questions relating to Christian faith and life.
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I respect and value Baptists. I even dated a girl from Moody Bible Institute when I attended Trinity Christian College, near Chicago.
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As a seminarian years ago, I pastored a small congregation. I was the preacher, the janitor, and the pianist. All for $5 a week.
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This column is devoted to enjoying some of the rich diversity God has blessed us with in the Christian Reformed Church.
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The office in my high school was on the first floor, in the center of the building.
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April Fool!
As much as we’d like to think that if Believers of Grace-U.S.
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They creep, they crawl, they scuttle, they gallop. They fly, hop, slither, and swim.
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It’s been almost 400 years since the Christian Reformed Church has added a new confession.
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An elderly Middle Eastern man lived just outside New York City for more than 40 years.
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Q. Why does our denomination place so much emphasis on the Ten Commandments and so little on the Beatitudes?
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As a greenhorn seminary intern I found my first church council meeting overwhelming.