I love the serenity prayer. Throughout my years of preaching, I’ve used it in all sorts of ways: to inspire surrender (God, grant me the

After 279 days and 2,895 miles aboard our 27-foot boat on the Great American Loop, my wife, Jill and I returned to our normal routine

“I don’t want to see anyone leave, but as Abraham was asked to offer up Isaac in obedience to faith, I see this as an

Way back in the day when the original Reformed Journal was still in print via Eerdmans Publishing Company in the 1980s, I had the thrill

There was no announcement or notification. Just some big machinery that dug up a large section of concrete in the middle of our street, a

The famous “sheep and goats” passage in Matthew 25 is a powerful message from Jesus as he nears his death. As Jesus tells it, those

The Christian Reformed Church Synod voted last week to expel more than two dozen LGBTQ-affirming churches and depose all LGBTQ-affirming ministers, elders, and deacons across

In an early scene of the film American Fiction, Monk (Jeffrey Wright) is noticeably upset. He moves a stack of his books—he’s a Black scholar