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Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell

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Tim Tebow

Okay.  So this really isn’t about Tim Tebow.  I just wanted you to look.  It’s hard to imagine that there is anything left to say

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A Regular Reader Reports

So The Twelve–Reformed Done Daily is moving into its third month.  So far.  So good.  I’m told readership is strong and growing, although it can

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Nicholas

I didn’t believe in Santa Claus as a child, and I raised my own children without any focus or emphasis upon Santa either.  We weren’t

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Plumb

Plumb—true, precise, upright. According to my skewed memory, “plumb” was one of my grandfather’s favorite words. As a boy, when we would work on little

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May His Children Wander About and Beg

Last month I was part of group representing the Reformed Church in America at an ecumenical discussion.  Along with the three other “Formula of Agreement”

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The Path

I was staying in a hotel on one of those ubiquitous suburban strips—big box stores, gas stations, car lots, the usual suspects of restaurants.   Figuring

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Pushing Ourselves Forward

Compared to the beloved Heidelberg Catechism, feted in these pages and still recited on death beds, the Belgic Confession is a rather unremarkable Reformed document.

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Salve for the Evangelical Soul

In recent years there have been numerous books, almost a nascent genre, in which disaffected or “enlightened” evangelicals share how they were wounded by their

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