Depression, sometimes called “the common cold of mental illness” because of its prevalence, is as serious a problem as it is
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From Hope Christian Reformed Church in Stony Plain, Alberta, to Rev.
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A preacher prepared for the Sunday-morning worship service, but only one person, a farmer, showed up.
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Across North America, congregations and other religious organizations are facing the same belt-tightening challenges as everyone else.
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“He who knows his own sin is greater than the angels,” said seventh-century Isaac of Nineveh. John Calvin would agree.
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After glancing at my calendar and doing a double-take at my ever-growing pregnant belly, I realize that I will miss out on Mother’s
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Last year Rev.
Light for a Dark Path
People who live with mental illness are all around us. Yet they often suffer alone.READ MOREJohn Nash is one of the most gifted mathematicians of our lifetime. As a student at Princeton he wowed everyone with his genius.
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Every night of your life, something very mysterious happens to you. You lie down, close your eyes, and you FALL ASLEEP.
A Second Blessing
Into Christ, with water, by the Holy Spirit—just how many baptisms are there in a believer’s life?READ MOREI was a member of a Second Blessing church before I joined the Christian Reformed Church.
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Finance
Q I heard [national Christian financial counselor] Dave Ramsey say, “If you
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Coffee Shop Confusion
I appreciated the excellent and important article “Does Your Church Have the Right to Exist?” (
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About 25 years ago reports began to surface about physical, emotional, and sexual abuse perpetrated by members and even leaders in the Ch
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I’ve sunk deeper into our home lately.
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With great interest I’ve followed our discussions on homosexuality in The Banner, on the Banner website, and on “Bob’s
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When churches add ministry staff—worship leaders, youth pastors, administrators, pastoral caregivers—they often seek training
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Growing up in Cuba, Juan Pablo Sanchez never saw the inside of a church . . . or the outside, for that matter.
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How would you feel if your children only had access to dubbed translations of foreign videos?
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Alexandra is a Christian from the Penza region of Russia, a little more than 700 km south of Moscow. In a letter to Rev.
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Back in her student days at Calvin College, there was one on-campus job that appealed to Mary Hulst.
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Georgia Roberts had been living with 10 of her children and four grandchildren in trailers and mobile homes since Hurricane Katrina destr
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It only takes a spark to get a fire going.” Those words became all too real for me a number of years ago when I was clearing a smal
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Because he was known as a hard worker and a devout Muslim, a young man got a good job herding cattle for wealthy families in his West Afr
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The movie ended and this message rolled across the theater screen: Based on the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald.