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December 28, 2016
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Devotions

Extro-spection, Empowering Expectations, and Convenient Healing?

by Eric Forseth
…but a habit of positive verbal guidance we should contemplate each day in communication practices. Expectations Can Be Limiting or Empowering The word taboo comes to mind when reading that the Centurion essentially said “You had probably better not come to my house, but I’d appreciate it if you healed my servant from a distance.” The Centurion knew Jesus as a Jew wasn’t supposed to enter into a Gentile’s home. Unwritten expectations of invisible…
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November 1, 2017
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Essays

The Importance of Literature

by Luke Hawley
…selves and the people around us. It’s an act of identity wrapped up in the practice of empathy. The narrator at the center of Cathedral is skeptical of just about everything connected to the blind man—why he doesn’t wear sunglasses, why he has a beard, why his wife’s name was Beulah. Why he’s coming to visit Carver’s wife. But at the end of the story, after a single evening of dinner and drinks, he finds himself trying to describe the cathedrals i…
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June 15, 2017
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Devotions

The Grace of Birdwatching

by Erin Zoutendam
…ther brilliant orange orioles, tiny kinglets brimming with good cheer, and comical little fellows called brown creepers. Of course, I wouldn’t see any of this if I weren’t out there in the trees in the first place, patiently waiting, quietly watching. Birding is both discipline and grace. But enough about birds, and onward to another of my favorite subjects, the Psalms. Today’s reading is Psalm 100, a brief but beautiful hymn of praise. As I read…
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April 8, 2016
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Essays

Working as a Christian

by Craig Stiemsma
…g coach, shares an interesting story with us in a devotional book called Uncommon. In the book, he writes about a time when a person called him and asked if he would be willing to contact a friend who had shared a common grief–that of losing a child. Tony agreed and made several phone calls to help council this man, and on one of the last calls, the man asked what Tony’s occupation was. Tony Dungy told him he was a football coach, and the man aske…
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July 18, 2017
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Devotions

Obediently Listening

by Marcy Rudins
…we can remember. In schools we are measured with tests, in families we are compared with other family members, in friend groups we’re measured on whether we’re good enough, and in society we are met with an endless list of standards and expectations. It’s all too much. It seems like we can’t escape these expectations and unrealistic ideals anywhere we turn. Some of us turn to the church, hoping for refuge and maybe even a dose of peace. But we fin…
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April 12, 2022
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Essays

Becoming Artist Christians

by Vaughn Donahue
…It need not hit you over the head with a pre-packaged message.  This is a freeing idea for an artist Christian.  Working Christianly  Let’s go back to the example of the doctor. While faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ should not impact whether a doctor performs the appropriate surgery on a patient in need, there is an argument to be made for doctoring Christianly.   Do you see where this is going?  A doctor who identifies and li…
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December 5, 2019
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None but Not Yet Done: Review of The Twentysomething Soul

by Justin Bailey
…ip attendance is positively correlated “with marriage, employment, college completion, voting, and community engagement” (178). One surprising finding to me was how many twentysomethings expressed a plan to prioritize faith once life settles down. Twentysomethings experience the world “less as sets of institutions prescribing standard life scripts and more as nodes on a network from which they can freely choose cultural symbols, strategies, and in…
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July 17, 2014
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Glossary

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September 30, 2019
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Essays

Dordt Prepares for PPCI

by Jeff Taylor
…od.” A variety of methodologies, both qualitative and quantitative, are welcome at PPCI. We aim to help bridge the gap between theory and practice. Politicians do not read scholarly journals. Few voters and activists read them either. Politics is not just something about which we study and write; it’s something that we do. The keynote speakers we will be hearing from are Emma Green of The Atlantic, Daniel McCarthy of Modern Age, John Inazu of Wash…
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August 3, 2021
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Hope for Harmony: A Review of Women in the Mission of the Church

by Kate Vander Veen
…sing to remain virgins, and others remaining widowed in order to move more freely in society. Accounts of nuns, widows, or “beguines” (women who chose service work without the vow commitment of nuns) described ways in which they cared for the sick and needy. The work of these women grew into what would become known as the women’s religious movement. Dzubinski and Stasson described remarkable personal sacrifices the women made in order to ‘care for…
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June 17, 2017
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Devotions

The Idol of Tradition

by Eric Forseth
…Son of God.”6 Prayer: God, it is so easy in your kingdom to accept present practices and allow these habits to become a form of worship that does not honor you. Please forgive us when we have practiced displaced traditions. Please draw us back to Scripture. Help us recognize that everything we do, including traditions, is a form of worship that should honor you. Thank you for calling us back to Jesus Christ and fellowship with him. Amen. Patterson…
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January 28, 2021
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The Cracks are Everywhere, Thank God: A Review of Prayer in the Night

by Myles Werntz
…nderside of the Christian life and into the vulnerability of the darkness. Compline, the liturgical prayers offered at night, are a Christian practice which invites us to ask for God’s care even while we sleep, and for God’s presence if we are those who must be awake in this time. The prayers of Compline, though offered at the time of physical darkness, illuminate this important dimension of the ordinary Christian life: that in physical light, the…
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August 3, 2015
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Essays

Globally Minded Christ-Centered Education

by Wayne Dykstra
…is at our fingertips” is absolutely true in our schools today. Two recent examples come to mind. A few years ago, our school partnered with a Northrise University in Zambia, donating funds to the start up of a new Agriculture program at Northrise. President Moffit Zimba of that school thanked us for our support and partnership via Skype. This past year, we became a partner school with One Body One Hope (OBOH) in Liberia. Our choice to become a pa…
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December 2, 2015
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Spotlights

Christ, Consumerism, and Christmas

by Aaron Baart
…need a slogan, a campaign, or even a crib. And I don’t think he needs a store-front banner or holiday cup today either. Truth be told, perhaps there are a lot more holiday traditions stuck to the tar baby that has become our cultural practice of Christmas that could use a little shedding if we really desire to put the Christ back in Christmas, allowing us to receive him as he really came, not merely as we’d have him be….
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November 4, 2021
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“Better Than We Found It”: A Review of Struggling with Evangelicalism

by Justin Bailey
…It requires a willingness to listen to those who have left, a shift in our practices and processes, and a commitment to make it a hospitable space for those who remain, one in which true discipleship can continue.” The third stage is repentance. Anytime someone makes a critique of evangelicalism—whether abuse of leadership, misogyny, or racism—one of the first impulses that evangelicals feel is defensiveness, the desire to defend the larger moveme…
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December 5, 2017
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Essays

Practicing Presence

by Dawn Berkelaar
…eluge? But, the Game of Minutes provides a way to bring people’s sadness and pain straight to the feet of Jesus. Despite writing about this as a game, Laubach discouraged people from trying to keep a detailed record of how many minutes they “won.” He wrote, “We are practicing a new freedom, not a new bondage. We must not get so tied down to score keeping that we lose the glory of it, and its spontaneity. We fix our eyes upon Jesus, not upon a cloc…
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March 4, 2017
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Doctrine Divides but Ministry Unites: Rethinking the Ecumenical Mantra

by Eric Watkins
…views to Scripture with a willingness to be corrected. But while doing this, we need to remember that true Christian unity is anchored in our confessions of faith and our common mission statement (The Great Commission). That is, truth is not only to be inherited, it is also to be shared….
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June 1, 2023
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Culture

In gratitude for Tim Keller (1950-2023)

by Justin Ariel Bailey
…im say something like, if you just listen to one or two voices, you will become a clone; but if you listen to many voices, you will develop your own voice. At a certain point, I realized that the Lord was not asking me to be another Keller but to learn from Keller how to be more like myself. My guess is I’ve only listened to 20 or so of Keller’s sermons and have only read 4-5 of his books. (That’s probably more than most but less than a true Kelle…
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February 14, 2022
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Confronting Kuyper: A Review of Calvinism for a Secular Age (Chapter Seven: On Race)

by Shaun Stiemsma
…er backgrounds and experiences. To hear those voices, we must make them welcome in our schools, conferences, and churches. To make them welcome, we must acknowledge and alter the ways in which Kuyper’s legacy of racism and ethnocentrism are carried forward in our institutions. To effect this change, we must humble ourselves before our brothers and sisters in Christ from all traditions and repent. In short, we must let God do his work in our hearts…
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October 12, 2015
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Essays

Why Christians Don’t Read the Bible

by Aaron Baart
…in how we approach the Biblical text is critical. It calls for a slow and searching read, one where the primary reader isn’t even our own mind but the Spirit of God inside of us. It is a reading of partnership, a realization that the same Spirit of God who inspired these words so many years ago is the same Spirit of God now alive in me, interpreting them not merely on the paper in front of me, but from deep within my being as well. I have also be…
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September 14, 2015
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Targeting Our Fears

by Tanya De Roo
…ear to us), this provides us with an opportunity to be known first as gracious people who speak with love and “pursue peace with everyone” (Hebrews 12:14). I recommend Richard Mouw’s book, Uncommon Decency, (IVP Books, 2010) for more about this topic. ↩…
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April 25, 2023
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Essays

Measuring Performance: the Economics of Cleaning the Outside of the Cup

by Joshua Hollinger
…forces mostly don’t apply in public education, where there’s often little competition between schools. A compressed pay schedule, where teachers are typically all paid the same except for increases based on experience or an advanced degree, may leave teachers with little incentive to perform well. Around 90% of students attend public schools. Since the government is responsible for running these schools well, a long-standing public policy questio…
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February 16, 2023
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Poetry to Break the Power of Empire: A Review of Touch the Earth

by Howard Schaap
…d it to touch the “upside down kingdom” in both historical and present-day examples.   For example, in the poem “Situation Ethics,” Jackson recounts how deception became a kind of value for slaves by which to undermine slavery itself, illustrated through a story told by Booker T. Washington: In the middle of the night, his mother awakened him to eat a chicken that she had taken from the master.  Jackson ties this anecdote directly to our ideas of…
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October 30, 2019
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Essays

Go Outside and Play!

by Erin Olson
…essential to our well-being or something we simply add on when we have the freedom to do them? Barbara Fredrickson, a social psychologist with a focus on positivity research, found that individuals with high levels of positivity and resiliency are often those that focus on the playful side of life, prioritizing things like “humor, creativity, exploration, relaxation, and optimistic thinking.”1 Fredrickson says we should aim for a 3-to-1 ratio when…
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March 14, 2017
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Essays

Always Reforming and Still Reforming: Why the Reformation is Still Relevant

by Andre Gazal
…Scripture in these post-modern times also applies to the assumed notions, practices, and preferences of our own ecclesiastical communities, and thereby we are prevented from universalizing and canonizing them. Adopting this approach from the Reformation helps to engender a spirit of humility, and enables the Church to be receptive of change as the Holy Spirit directs it through the Word. Continuous willingness to be corrected will most likely lea…
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