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Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell

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Finally, Succeeding at Advent

I think this might be the first Christmas where I’m truly doing only the things I want to do. That sounds dangerously selfish. But it

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The Kids are Alright. More or Less.

They don’t see church as a value-added to their lives. Their first thoughts are of obligations, constraints, conflict. More in their already hectic schedule.

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Young Love, Big Yes!

Did young Christians in the 1980s marry early because they wanted to have sex within the bounds of marriage? Absolutely!

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When they go low,

I’m wondering how or if we can hold on to something like Michelle Obama’s hopeful call while also engaging with a vile man doing all

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Retirement: two years in

People have asked about what I’m doing. Here are a couple things I’ve become involved with. First, I add my obligatory Reformed-humility caveat. Of course

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