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Historically, the church’s ministry of grounding new believers in the essentials of Christian faith has been known as catechesis

Long before the Christian Reformed Church had a Disability Concerns ministry, Willoughby CRC in Langley, British Columbia, was actively w

Three West Michigan high schools recently won state championship titles.

1926-2010

Rev.

“Bring your chainsaw” was the word that went out to members of Terrace (B.C.) Christian Reformed Church after an autumn wi

In most churches, “multimedia” means projectors, amplifiers, PowerPoint, and websites, not paintings.

The Bananer, the much-storied lampoon of The Banner, turned 40 this past year.

Congressman Vernon J. Ehlers retired in November after 17 years in the U.S. House of Representatives.

An interagency skirmish over how to spend the $8 million sent by Christian Reformed churches for Haiti reveals just how complicated it

The bulk of the $12 million collected by the Christian Reformed Church for Haiti is bankrolling simple wood houses in five small commu

“In Haiti, it never ends,” one relief worker I met recently in Haiti told me. He was right.

An elderly man rushed into the doctor’s office and shouted, “Doctor! I think I’m shrinking!!”

Jews and Christians have long recognized the words recorded in both Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 as the heart of the Old Testament&rsqu

Dirk, thanks so much for your good thoughts and gutsy gospel endeavor to plant a new church.

I am an exceptionally bad chess player. I’m told I rush too quickly to bring out the queen.

A group of animals gathers at a water hole: A lion drinks next to a zebra. An ostrich runs alongside a lioness.

Imagine that you’ve been invited to the home of new friends.

God gave you some pretty wonderful senses.

Mission

Q I’d like to give my time and money to organizations in my community.

A Modest Proposal

I am a convert to social justice. For a long time I found it easy to make excuses not to help the poor.

Let the wicked forsake their ways
and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the Lord, and he will
have

It’s scary how easily the media swing our attention away from what really matters to what really doesn’t.