Our congregation in Pella, Iowa, went through a nasty split 10 years ago.

Finance

QDo I really need an estate plan? Aren’t they just for people with a lot of money?

The teacher in the book of Ecclesiastes says, “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.”

Blessedness of Mourning

The Banner’s February cover story (“Blessed Are You Who Mourn”) suggests that in saying

Celindy would like to take her heritage to church.

“Ukrainians can! Koreans can! The Dutch can! Why not me?”

Eight-year-old Melody was lamenting the fact that once Christmas was over, the local church wouldn’t be bringing food to her house

Some stories don’t end. They just stop. I don’t like those. A sad ending’s fine.

eople are big! Jesus healed a blind man who, upon opening his eyes, said he saw people as trees walking (Mark 8:24).

Have a Heart

Make a fist with your right hand and look at it. Your heart‘s about that size.

Fast from discontent.
Feast on gratitude.

Fast from anger.
Feast on patience.

Fast from worry.
Feast on fai

Bible

Q How can the Old Testament God who helps the Israelites destroy their enemies be t

Harry Potter

The cover and article concerning Harry Potter (“Harry Potter and the Way of Jesus”) in the January Banne

Thank you so much for “Pastoral Calls That Matter,” by Rev. Louis Tamminga (November 2007).

One Sunday morning years ago I walked beside a less-than-mobile elderly lady toward the front steps of a Christian Reformed church.

How do we keep love from petrifying into law?

What’s on the minds of the next generation of Reformed Christians?

The walrus said to the oysters, “The time has come to talk of many things: of shoes — and ships — and sealing wax &mdas

There are lots of wonderful things to see in our world. But which ones are the most amazing of all?

Relationships

Q. Our daughter and her boyfriend are living together.

When I was a child about 5 years old, I would go to my grandfather’s small Baptist church.

One evening after GEMS (girls’ club) I chatted with a counselor and two mothers, while one of their daughters waited nearby.

The Banner invites letters in response to articles that have appeared in this magazine.

I like the Banner editor’s list of hopes for the future of the Christian Reformed Church a