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Gateway Community Church in Abbotsford, B.C., partners with BC Housing to run an emergency shelter. It isn’t all success stories, but volunteers say they still experience hope.

Everywhere we look, no matter the time of year, the wonders of creation remind us that God is always near.

Beginning in the summer of 2024, Calvin University will pilot a free academic transition program called Wayfinder in the 49507 area.

A new faith-based series explores the challenges of a female paleontologist in Wyoming Territory of the late 1800s.

A Belmont University professor in Nashville has a particular interest in exploring what is happening in contemporary worship.

La doctrina reformada sobre la claridad de las Escrituras enseña que lo que se necesita para la salvación está claro en las Escrituras. No enseña que todo en la Escritura es claro y fácil de entender.

Christian, oh Christian … What lies are you believing?

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Our telescopes create more questions than answers. But they certainly elicit a response.

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I learned a lesson recently: the art of asking, in the face of seemingly impossible obstacles, “What can I do?” This takes my focus from the barriers to what is possible.

The Reformed Church of America’s Commission on Christian Unity meeting with a delegation of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA in October included CRC pastor Anthony Elenbaas.

Immanuel Christian Reformed Church in Cornwall, Ont., began sponsoring refugee families in 2015 and has grown organically through those connections.

Described as compassionate, affectionate, and generous, Jerry Alferink was a pastor and chaplain who loved preaching. He died Dec. 29 at age 78.

Becky Kennedy, wildly popular parenting expert and creator of @drbeckyatgoodinside, shares her groundbreaking approach to raising kids.

Inspired by true events, when a handshake deal goes sour, funeral home owner Jeremiah O’Keefe (Tommy Lee Jones) enlists charismatic, smooth-talking attorney Willie E. Gary (Jamie Foxx) to save his family business

A book for the tiniest ones all about being grateful, based on Psalm 92—from the team that brought you the bestselling Jesus Storybook Bible.

La gratitud es la postura principal y predeterminada al servir en el reino de Dios. Pero eso no significa que será fácil.

Jason Gray releases a vulnerable album about human frailty and God’s love.

In her second work of fiction, biblical scholar Paula Gooder tells Lydia's story—who she was, the life she lived and her first-century faith—and in doing so opens up Paul's letter to the Philippians.

God designed water to be a super dissolver! In fact, scientists call water a “universal solvent” because it can dissolve more things than any other kind of natural liquid.

Committee 7 gave me a glimpse into a beautiful church: the Christian Reformed Church. These are people who hold a high view of Scripture and the confessions. These are people who love Jesus. They recognized that they have often failed to love as Jesus has called them to love, and by God’s grace they want to do better.

Purity seems to have been reduced to something optional in our modern idea of Christianity. But is it?