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I knock on Mary’s door with no more than a name on a chart. My hospice badge prompts her husband to let me inside.

Have you ever listened to a broadcast of a NASA launch?

Are you a perfectionist? Is your boss one? Perhaps you have a perfectionist parent or sibling?

I’m about to say something just a bit shocking. It’s highly controversial.

When I heard the name Aceh, the main locale in Indonesia hit by the 2004 tsunami, it was not new to me.

“Someday soon, my little man, our Lord Jesus is coming again. I hope you never forget it as long as you live.”

I can still hear my grandpa’s refrain about “Ninth Street,” our home church in Holland, Mich.: “Don’t chang

As we celebrate Thanksgiving this year, times are tough.

W.A. Visser ’t Hooft once wrote the following thought-provoking words about John Calvin:

One of the sweet promises of Scripture is God’s guidance.

Swelling with pride, a mother was all too glad to tell me recently how well her daughter is faring in her graduate studies at a prestigio

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“Fill the earth and subdue it”
(Gen. 1:28).

Emily, a former student of mine, had endured a semester’s worth of ridicule and abuse from her grad school professors and fellow st

A speaker once asked his audience to raise their hands high above their heads. Everyone complied.

A former student wrote to me recently:

How do you picture God when you pray to him?

I remember being asked that question many years ago in a small group.

If I had to choose only two concepts from John Calvin’s vast theology to teach my spiritual heirs, I’d choose piety and relig

Recently The Banner asked Rev. Ken Baker and Rev.

“He who knows his own sin is greater than the angels,” said seventh-century Isaac of Nineveh. John Calvin would agree.

I was a member of a Second Blessing church before I joined the Christian Reformed Church.

Some Christians are “Big God” people; others believe God’s a bit smaller and a little less powerful.

What an impertinent question! Why would you even ask such a thing? The church is the body of Jesus Christ.

At a recent conference I was part of a panel of pastors who were talking about the realities of being a pastor. OK, let's face it&md