“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven” (Eccl. 3:1). There is a time…

Keo Phommarath met his wife, Bounchan, at a party.

“It is better to give than to receive,” says Scripture (Acts 20:35). But receiving is important too.

Times Square in New York City. Seconds before midnight on December 31. A giant ball drops to usher in the New Year.

Q. What is the ministerial stance on

Total Depravity?

Getting ready for Christmas is kind of like time traveling.

In my humble opinion, all paid ministry staff who work with children and youth in Christian Reformed congregations should function as if

OK, so it’s not as important as sending a letter to or on behalf of persecuted people (you read the editorial, didn’t you?),

Last December I invited Banner readers to join me in placing just a single item on our Christmas wish list: a goat.

We were out of town. Not long. Five days. But when we returned, the restaurant near the corner was gone. It disappeared! Like magic!

Quite a few sick listed in the bulletin this morning. I’ll say a prayer for each one.

For thousands of years, people all over the world have celebrated harvesttime.

You’ve heard (or asked) the question a thousand times in a thousand forms: Is something good, or is it bad?

Q. You said it’s not necessary for a creationist to believe in a young earth (August Banner, p.

A few years ago I was driving along, daydreaming and only half listening to Garrison Keillor’s “Writer’s Almanac”

If Rev. Wayne Brouwer’s meaty “nutshell” (“Reformation: A Short History,” Oct.

We cowered at the deafening sound of crippled airplanes
and metal fragments crashing to earth.

So what’s caught your funny bone lately?

Nature flicks rarely pierce our souls. But that’s what March of the Penguins did to me.

My teeth were cleaned and flossed, and I was out of the dentist’s chair. No cavities. Good feeling.

Learning to talk is one of life’s great miracles.

Have you heard berries screaming for attention or seen bees tucking themselves into bed lately?