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Duane Kelderman

On Holy Ground

Calling my dad a real estate developer is a bit misleading. A typical “development” for my dad was finding an old block of real estate

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Nancy Knol

Garage Sale Lessons

One summer years ago, I shocked my son by saying, as I began sorting through stuff that I thought we needed to have a garage

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Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell

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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Hugh Cook

Of Faith and Fiction

A sermon is invariably made better by telling stories, but a story is never made better when it sermonizes.

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Jon Pott

On a Sunday Afternoon

We met in the parking lot of the country church on either side of which we had lived, my father the pastor and his the

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Heidi S. De Jonge

Never Take More Than Half

When my writing crosses the line into sentimentality, I am taking more than half, by which I mean that I am doing my own emotional

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Dana VanderLugt

WWJP: What Would Jesus Post?

Normally, my relationship with social media is complicated—but on my birthday, it feels fun. Messages, pictures, and love pour in.

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Marilyn McEntyre

A Time for Tender Compassion

Of the many words that name aspects of love, tender is one of my favorite.   I used to sing my daughters to sleep, and later

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Mark Waterstone

The Library, Acts 2, and Sharing

The books, the board games, the educational toys, the movies, the building blocks, the pots and pans, the guitars, and even the seeds for planting

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Rebecca Koerselman

Flare Legs Jeans and Early 2000s

Popular film after film in the early 2000s had the same premise: young men behaving poorly, but claimed as lovable and good if they managed

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Clay Libolt

Windows on Mystery: Doing and Seeing

Those who limit Easter to the bodily appearances of Jesus slight this promise of Jesus: “I will appear to them.” In worship, we should expect