If you are an exceptionally astute reader of “The 12” blog, you may recall that in one of my first blog posts last year I

Years ago when doing a sermon series on The Fruit of the Spirit, I noted to my congregation how relatively pedestrian some of the spiritual

Dear Rob: Please don’t think I’m being snarky posting an open letter to you.  But the issues you’ve raised over the last year or so

Perhaps not all readers of “The Twelve” will be aware of it but in some circles within the Christian Reformed Church these past ten days

A year ago I was sitting at my kitchen table face to face with a stack of 40-some sermons, each based on one of the

First, sorry for the overly alliterative title.  But for this post, those words really are the apt ones to invoke!  Like many people, I have

Since this post will appear early in Holy Week 2012, my thoughts have turned toward questions of the meaning of Jesus’ sacrifice.   In a seminary