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November 20, 2015
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Essays

What is Happening?

by Joel Veldkamp
…did in Afghanistan.” Or, as the prophets might say, “They boast: ‘We have entered into a covenant with death. When the overwhelming scourge passes by, it will not touch us’” (Isaiah 28:15). Soon, another opportunity arose to make use of jihadism. When the uprising in Syria began in 2011, the U.S. saw a chance to get rid of Iran and Russia’s only ally in the Arab world. As if 9/11 had never happened, our government did exactly what they did in Afg…
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February 23, 2021
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Essays

Looking for “Deep Rest”: Confronting the Idolatry of Personal Success

by Justin Ariel Bailey
…ancient by the standards of professional sports), Brady can’t seem to stop competing. And commentators can’t seem to stop comparing.   There is something admirable about a professional athlete’s will to win. And there is something endearing about the arguments we have over their accolades. But underneath both is a haunting question: when will it ever be enough? Because if we are not careful, we believe that our professional accomplishments are the…
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May 15, 2017
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Devotions

Hear My Prayer

by Ethan Brue
…ferent prayer altogether—a short prayer, which has generated more words of commentary than it probably deserves: the prayer of Jabez. A prayer with very little context for us to lean on. A prayer that asks for God to increase the author and free him from pain. God grants it. End of prayer. After receiving and reading the Chronicles devotional, I went back to the tragedy of Psalm 102 and read on. “Hear my Prayer, O Lord.” The Psalmist is not asking…
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August 28, 2018
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Essays

Public Worship and the Shape of Discipleship

by John D. Witvliet
…do our part—parenting, preaching, singing, listening, praising, lamenting, communing—with hope and expectation, free from the burden of needing to control all the outcomes. But this in no way means we should shrink back from shaping services with pastoral and theological care. It does not fit the logic of the kingdom for us to throw up our hands and settle for worship practices that are benign or merely “nice.” And our awareness of how much we nee…
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February 13, 2017
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Culture

You and Me and West Texas: Review of Hell or High Water

by James Calvin Schaap
…Alberto reminds Marcus that a couple of centuries earlier his people, the Comanches, ran wild and free over all that land out there. What he says is a rejoinder to Marcus’s endless racial slurs. But then Alberto looks across the street at the little bank and tells the old ranger that Marcus’s people—the poor, white folk of this woebegone world–are now being chased off themselves, just as the Comanches were long ago, and he points out across the s…
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May 21, 2015
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Essays

What is Religious Liberty?

by Donald Roth
…igious liberty is not the norm around the world. If religion is this all-encompassing aspect of life that I believe it is, then it is a fundamental threat to tyrannical government. At a basic level, religion claims our loyalties in a way that transcends patriotism and national identity, something that inevitably threatens a suspicious sovereign. At the same time, religion is culture-defining, operating on a level that has the ability to transform…
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October 9, 2015
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Devotions

The Gift of Giving

by Willis Alberda
…n that we were made in the image of God? Where does the capability to love come from? Since the answers are beyond our comprehension, the best we can do is respond with praise to the Creator, who gave us all these capabilities and abilities, and do our best to create an environment in which all of these capabilities have the best possible way of developing in the way the Creator intended, both before and after the birth of each human being. Such a…
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January 18, 2019
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Books

Netflix Review: “Bandersnatch”

by Josh Matthews
…n idea so far from new that it rotted away in the sun a long time ago. Metacommentary on the free-will-versus-determinism debate and the relationship between an artistic medium and its effects on readers, presented within that medium, has been a staple of written literature forever. Just read Don Quixote, written in the early 1600s, which beat Bandersnatch to all ideas by 400 years, and it deals with them far more complexly. Or, just play any vide…
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September 9, 2015
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Essays

Seeking Justice in the Workplace

by John Taekema
…in order to find solutions to the problems that occur. The workplace is a community of workers. It is comprised of skilled and unskilled workers, managers, and owners. Each important in a unique way, the focus of a union is naturally different than management. Everyone in that community brings their unique skill set (gifts) to serve others. CLAC is a labor union that seeks to do justice in the workplace based on Christian principles that recogniz…
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March 29, 2022
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The Power of the Points: A Review of Making Faith Magnetic

by Justin Ariel Bailey
…peal” alongside “how appalling idolatry is” (88-90).   Strange’s book is a compelling example of what is known as “cultural apologetics”: apologetic approaches that concentrate on giving Christian interpretations of culture rather than making logical proofs, which find their precedent in thinkers like Augustine, Pascal, and Schaeffer. While not replacing more analytic accounts (which defend the truth of Christianity), cultural apologetics remind u…
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March 9, 2015
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Spotlights

Joining Christ in Mission

by Darren Stoub
…ear the pool of Bethesda,2 a prisoner of his paralysis; and “the oppressed free,” which could have been seen through the healing of the bleeding woman,3 oppressed because she was unclean for twelve years. Beyond an implicit reading of this passage, one can consider the fact that more than half of Christ’s thirty seven miracles are healing miracles. For these and many other reasons, the healing mission was an important part of Christ’s ministry on…
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May 1, 2015
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Devotions

What is Jesus’ Will?

by Donald Roth
…ted while your parents are alive, that isn’t really a concern once they’ve passed. The promise that we inherit then in Christ is of something accomplished. The contract made in the Old Testament between God and His people has been fulfilled by Christ, and the blessing secured by that fulfillment (“I will be your God.”) has been granted to us. For another, to paraphrase and apply Paul’s imagery from Galatians 4: workers sign a contract, children re…
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January 15, 2019
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Essays

Part One: Reforming Journalism

by Lee Pitts
…re it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” Jefferson understood that a press has a vital role in preserving liberty. A free society needed a free media. He believed in this so much that he was willing to abandon the very government that he helped create if it meant preserving the press. This message is forgotten today. I…
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September 7, 2020
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Essays

Labor Day: Stories of Work

by James Calvin Schaap
…re the merrier; but it’s passing strange that the one thing in life that’s offered freely is something we want so badly to work for and to earn—salvation. That line isn’t mine, but I’ve used it often because of the catchy irony that traps most of us when we hear it unrolled. It’s Labor Day all right, a holiday meant to celebrate work and those who do it, because such things need to be celebrated. Psalm 90 means different things when you’re thirty…
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July 26, 2016
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Essays

Why Are Vacations So Exhausting?

by Howard Schaap
…hem in their space, making memories and getting in each other’s hair until coming home felt like freedom. This is another aspect of “vacation.” We “vacate” ultimately to return. In literature, the goal of any hero’s journey is to go out, have experiences that change us, and then return with our changed selves to better the place from which we came. The same can be said for vacation. Even if we return with tales of eating smoked gator, vacation and…
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January 18, 2017
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Devotions

New Wine into Old Wineskins

by Liz Niehoff
…what keeps us grounded and stagnant in the traditions of old, rather than freeing us to move forward into the unknown. And to move forward, we must be willing to defy old traditions, to risk being ridiculed and questioned. And in the process, we will liberate ourselves of old patterns, habits, strings that tie us down from feeling free in Christ Here’s the thing. If we don’t learn from the past, we can’t move into the future. If we don’t cherish…
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February 11, 2017
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Devotions

Why Is Obedience So Hard?

by Leah Dunlap-Ennis
…do it. He has given you his Spirit. That is why Augustine prayed, “O Lord, command what you will, and give what you command.” Tell us what you want us to do, and give us the power to do it! On our behalf, the Psalmist acknowledges that one of his greatest needs is to be steadfast in keeping God’s statutes. And as he sets forth on the path of life, he promises: I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways. I will delight in your st…
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August 9, 2018
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Books

Telling Truthful Narratives: A Review of “Migrants and Citizens”

by Alberto La Rosa Rojas
…es, which portray most migrants as either impoverished people deserving of compassion or as free-loading lawless individuals deserving of contempt. Rajendra shows that migration is a “complex and multifaceted” phenomenon in which “preexisting relationships between migrants and citizens” are at least equally likely to determine the flows of migration as increasing wealth and liberty (32). Rajendra thus concludes that any account of the just treatme…
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February 19, 2016
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Are Healthcare Bills Racking Up? You Might Qualify for Help

by Derrick Vander Waal
…n enrollment period. Tax credits are available for people who fall under income guidelines to lower their monthly premium costs. Eight out of 10 people who apply have received tax credits. Can I be dropped from Medicaid? Unless their eligibility status changes, Mora said people will not lose their Medicaid coverage as long as they follow the requirements asked of them. For example: If people don’t complete the annual renewal paperwork, they could…
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September 29, 2021
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Essays

In Search of True Silence

by Jackson Nickolay
…cities, highways, and ringtones, solitude and silence are a hard thing to come by. When you add to that our constant connection to our neighbors through our computers, phones, and devices, it’s a wonder if we ever experience any amount of silence or solitude.   It has certainly been a rare thing for me. When I moved from the forests of upper Minnesota to the small city of Holland, Michigan a few years ago, one of the first things I noticed was th…
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June 13, 2019
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The Logic of Limitations: A Review of The Common Rule

by Justin Bailey
…ese things place further limitations on our freedom. But there is a deeper freedom—the freedom to become who we were created to be—that is found not in the absence of limitations, but in embracing the right limitations. My marriage vows limit me, but they also set me free. My children limit me profoundly, but they have also opened up enormous new space for me to experience love, joy and grace. The Scriptures limit me, but their limitations ultimat…
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October 11, 2017
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Devotions

Pause in the Pain

by Edie Lenz
…ch does not rest in our hands. “Stretch out your hand from on high; set me free and rescue me from the mighty waters…” How many have prayed this prayer, awaiting rescue in their flooded homes? How many have prayed desperately for the deliverance of their loved ones in the rubble, in the fires, in the fighting? How many have prayed prayers of desperation, awaiting deliverance, awaiting a miracle? “May there be no breach in the walls, no exile, and…
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October 23, 2015
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Essays

Why vote?

by Jeff Taylor
…ur local community, and, most importantly, try to provide a daily personal example of truth, morality, justice, mercy, and community. Nowadays, political campaigns tend to be slick, cynical things making use of messianic and apocalyptic language. The language pushes our buttons of hope and fear. We can vote and engage in the political process without buying into such save-the-world, sky-is-falling nonsense. Put in proper perspective, and done with…
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July 18, 2019
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Christian Justice: A Review of Becoming a Just Church

by Abby Foreman
…eople I wanted to learn from spent their time there. Often the only places open, welcoming and busy in back row neighborhoods were churches or McDonald’s… For many back row Americans, the only places that regularly treat them like humans are churches. The churches are everywhere, small churches that have come in and taken over a space and light it up on Sundays and Wednesdays. They walk inside the church, and immediately they meet people who get t…
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April 21, 2015
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Essays

Forgive Us

by Erica Hughes
…of being spoken to for 20 minutes then being asked if I’m Kenyan. Please, come and protect me from the comments— “I didn’t know the niggers work here,” “I just lump all black people together,” And “Come, let’s put them in a closet so that their teeth and eyeballs gleam”— So I won’t be tempted to smoke a blunt just so I can cope with the fact that I have black skin and a vagina. Instead, let my words be a witness to the Son who was brown and who m…
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