Following our Sunday-morning worship service, I was visiting with my friend Doug Vande Griend, an attorney in Salem, Ore.:

As someone who works most weekends and just about every Sunday night, I’ve developed the good discipline of taking Mondays off.

Many of the earth’s rainforests are located in hot, humid places like Central and South America and parts of Africa, Asia, and A

We emphasize the significance of the local church.

Synod 2011 moved forward cautiously and carefully, like traffic through a construction zone.

Reuniting what should never have been divided.

What has made you smile lately?

I knew I didn’t walk into that room alone.

If you don’t get outside much, you might have this unhealthy problem.

Are ministers today too busy? Not busy enough? Maybe it’s time for churches to re-evaluate the role.

Our confessions sketch a deep, rich theology that rewards those who dig deeper.

Terrorism, unrest in the Middle East, spiking oil prices, and Qur’an burnings.

True Dialogue

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Church

Q.

When my son was younger, we were working on the sounds that different letters make. At one point we worked on days of the week:

Sometimes the most wonderful sound in the heat of summer can be the music of an ice cream truck.

Four years ago, shortly after our church moved into its new ministry center, a member of the congregation sent three plants in celebra

The CRC’s drift toward centralization is moving authority away from synod.

It won’t be a quiet week in Bannerland.

Gracious Lutherans

When I saw the April Banner, I was pleased to see the Christus Rex from the chapel of Valpara

Relationships

Q. I’m a mother raising three teenage boys on my own and I’m totally overwhelmed.

A father believed his son was spending too much time playing computer games.

A former drug addict testifies to God’s faithfulness.