Somebody asked me a good question recently.  “When you listen to sermons or read sermons, if you see things that need improving, what is usually

October arrived over the weekend and with the passing of September came also an end to the month in which most of the Classes in

A good bit of my summer was taken up by my hosting five listening sessions with groups of pastors.  The purpose was to try to

The Apostle Paul made it clear that coarse talk coming from our mouths is not the mark of a follower of Christ.   In Ephesians 5

Some years ago when Rob Bell was still pastor at the West Michigan megachurch Mars Hill, a few of my students (among others) noticed that

A week ago today my colleague Dan Meeter posted here about what he regards as recent misappropriations of the Heidelberg Catechism.  Consider this blog as

My fellow blogger Dana VanderLugt posted a thoughtful piece on Saturday titled “No Easy Answers.”   Her post received a number of appreciative comments but when

Few intellectual skills are quite as valuable as the ability to engage in critical thinking.  There is a small array of sub-skills required to be

The month of June begins tomorrow and whatever else this new month might contain, the meeting of the Christian Reformed Synod is prominent in the