Are commissioned pastors allowed to perform the same tasks as ministers, such as administering the sacraments and performing weddings and funerals?

Our churches are called to explore various ways to reach their communities through both evangelism and social justice.

Our church leadership is talking about faith milestones. What are they, and why should we be interested? 

#MeToo movement has highlighted women who have experienced sexual harassment or assault. Aren’t Christians supposed to forgive rather than demand justice?

Many activities that were once forbidden by the church (card playing, dancing, and movie attendance) are now considered fine. But the Bible does not change. Are these changes biblical?

Christians should be aware of the effects of our lifestyles.

Online commenting is the latest and most efficient way we allow ourselves to be set up against each other.

At pivotal points in our paid work we must sometimes decide whether to remain where we are or move on to a new location.

I made profession of faith many years ago as a young teenager, but it was group pressure that made me do it.

It is a mistake to assume that just because a lesson is for young children it can be theologically neutral. 

On the one hand, some connections are established more easily and quickly now that the smartphone replaced the telephone...

According to one polyamory website, a polyamorous relationship is “a romantic relationship where the people in the relationship agree that it’s okay for everyone to be open to or have other romantic partners.”

Here are six films, from the very old to the recent, that are worth watching.

Three or four years ago, I started to notice people beginning their spoken sentences with “so...”

How do I discern between God’s calling and my own—or even other people’s—sinful ambitions?

In terms of orthodoxy in faith and practice, it seems to me that the Christian Reformed Church has more in common with A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians than with the Reformed Church in America.

What does it mean to “give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s”?

We need to discern between right and wrong, good and evil. That is not optional. Neither is holding people accountable for their actions.

It is tempting for a long-married couple to think of sexual (romantic) intimacy in isolation from the rest of the relationship. 

Retired Christian Reformed pastor Henry Wildeboer once lamented, “I love the Lord and I love his church. So it grieves me to learn that the Christian Reformed Church declined in membership.

Teaching children with different degrees of Bible knowledge is a challenge for teachers in church education and in day schools. 

Ah, for a magic formula into which you could plug your distinctive set of circumstances...

All members of the body of Christ are called to be filled with the Holy Spirit, grow in the fruit of the Spirit, and both receive from and contribute to other members of their communities.