Category: Blog

The Leap

Last time, I talked here about growing up in the Army chapel system, so I hope you’ll indulge a second blog in a row about

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Jim Brownson’s New Book

The little pond I swim in, the Reformed Church in America, has not, in my memory, anticipated a book as much as Jim Brownson’s recently

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Training to see

Today’s guest post comes from Mark Roeda, pastor of South Bend Christian Reformed Church:    Learning to read resembles learning to ride a bike.  In

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February Blahs

If for some reason you wish to study that peculiar state of human existence called “the blahs,” I suggest you begin in the third week

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A Pentecostal Sunday

This is yesterday afternoon, a gorgeous February Sabbath, and that’s my grandson writing a message in the light snow on the Floyd River with the

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When a Pudding Cup is Grace

One of my favorite parts of my workweek takes place on Tuesday nights 4:00-5:30. It’s a time when we swing wide open the sanctuary doors

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Immunized

Because I have been invited to teach a preaching course at a conference in Uganda this coming August, I recently paid a visit to the

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Good + Books

Being good is complicated. I’ve just read two British novels, written over 150 years apart, that make that point. It fascinates me that of all

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