Several months ago, during Epiphany and Lent, I invited members of my congregation to join me in memorizing Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7).

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“How much longer are you going to keep calling yourself an ‘evangelical?’” a friend recently asked me. “Don’t you think it’s time to give it

Wherever I go in RCA (Reformed Church in America) circles these days, I get this question: “How’s it going with the 2020 Vision Team?” Some

Your word I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You. Psalm 119:11 “Jeff, I’ve got an idea,” I pulled him

The first time I tried sushi was almost fifteen years ago when a parishioner named Bill Smith took me to his favorite Japanese restaurant. Bill

“In our own lives, too, we all too often deny the grace we’ve been given in barren places…Sooner or later, we must learn to deal

A few years ago, when I was invited to be a regular writer for The Twelve, I was reluctant to say yes. Even though I

It’s been my practice over the years to take a moment in worship, on Veterans Day Weekend, to acknowledge our veterans and their families. This