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March 20, 2017
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Essays

The Best Sandbox

by Tom Clark
…many different ways can you make, 0, 1, or 7 using just four 4s? There is freedom to imagine within a structure of rules. Just when you start feeling comfortable, you might change the rules: allow more operations, exponents, square roots, logarithms. In fact, Paul Dirac figured out a clever way of writing any number using just four 4’s! Sometimes, mathematics shows up inside other games. One really interesting example is the children’s game Spot…
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October 29, 2014
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Spotlights

Education as Formation

by Dave Mulder
…sense of judging teachers seems widely held in our culture; take note, for example, of how often people quote George Bernard Shaw’s zinger: “Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.” We need to reconsider this cultural perception so often held of educators. Scripture clearly demonstrates that teaching is a spiritual gift.2 And as such, education must be viewed in a different light. Oftentimes, formal education is viewed as transmission of inform…
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April 26, 2016
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How Do I Know What to Do With my Life?

by Mark Verbruggen
…ce and faith, identity and Kingdom calling, and so forth. However, when it comes to the real world of career and choices, we can easily forget it all. Younger people often feel obliged to chase for the trophies, awards, GPA, and scholarships by which they think they and their futures are defined and determined. Sadly, for many of them, they also feel that this is the means by which to win their parents’ approval. How do you know what to do with yo…
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May 24, 2018
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Essays

Parenting, Attachment Theory, and God

by Erin Olson
…strong relationships with God and see their relationship with Him as being compensatory to failed relationships with earthly parents. God becomes the parental figure these individuals didn’t have during their childhood. In the mental model hypothesis, the opposite happens and the earthly representation of a father/mother/caregiver becomes the mental model for God as Heavenly Father (Reinert & Edwards, 2014). The model of relationships formed with…
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May 14, 2017
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Devotions

In God’s Hands

by Daniel Vos
…salm 31, faith is both desperately needy and tenaciously hopeful. Both are commended as necessary to the anatomy of the soul. John Calvin, Commentary on the Book of the Psalms (trans. James Anderson; Edinburgh: Calvin Translation Society, 1845), I:xxxvii. â†© While the phrase is typically rendered “Into your hands I commit my spirit,” the Hebrew term describes one’s breath. â†© Patrick Miller, Interpreting the Psalms (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 198…
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March 20, 2017
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Devotions

God of Compassion

by Marcy Rudins
…God suffers with and for us, we might experience an even closer glimpse of communion. In God’s compassion, there is communion and connection. Like the faithful parents and the child crying together in unison, so much so that their tears are blurred together, so is God’s suffering with us. When we open ourselves up, and let ourselves experience our suffering with the deep trust that God is with us, we are invited to a deeper union with our Triune G…
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October 8, 2015
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Essays

Why Give?

by John Baas
…bs team to win a championship in over a century… In the ultimate cosmic contest, we already know the outcome. Christ wins! The championship trophy already has his name on it. But the contest is still being played out, and Christ has offered us the opportunity to be part of the team. Not just watching from afar. Not just a spectator in the stadium. On the field — in uniform! As Christ redeems this world from the effects of sin, our giving is one im…
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February 2, 2017
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Devotions

Delight

by Jill Heynen
…l didn’t need to go out to a fancy restaurant with her dad to revel in his company. He didn’t need to be dressed in a suit and tie. Just being with him was enough. So often in our busy lives, spending time in God’s Word and talking to him through prayer can seem like another thing to check off our to-do list. It becomes a burden. Like the little girl, we need to enjoy the time we have to spend with our Father. Like much instruction in the Bible, t…
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November 30, 2015
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Devotions

Preparing, Advent and Psalm 51

by Shirley Folkerts
…over when or how, but with the stark realization that we need this Christ-coming-again, Christ-restoring-completely, Christ-reigning-forever event. We can’t make this event happen any more than we made creation happen. But we are a busy people and most days our frantic waiting drowns out the echo of our cries from deep within, “Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice.” (Psalm 51:8) During this season of Advent we paus…
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July 11, 2017
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Friendship Through Citizenship

by
…fferent ways. Here are a few ideas for how to build relationships around a common cause, impact your community, and be a more effective citizen. Get to know your elected officials. It’s easier than you think. I’ve personally met every person I’ve ever voted for (and many who I didn’t vote for), and the opportunity is available for anyone to do the same. It’s provided me with a unique perspective on their ideas that influence our laws. It’s valuabl…
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December 25, 2016
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Devotions

A Call to Gladness

by Aaron Baart
…was only treated as such by those who had nothing to begin with. Psalm 97 opens with a call to gladness due to the reign of God in the world, and an invitation for distant shores to rejoice because of our God. And yet, the Pharisees weren’t the only ones who had a hard time receiving God on his own terms. Even his closest friends and followers struggled to recognize him as God, let alone get excited about the type of Kingdom he had come to bring….
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November 27, 2019
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Cultivating an Attitude of Gratitude

by Kayt Frisch
…He has already done. As a result, we shifted our prayer practice. I would open our prayers, then welcome our children to voice what they are thankful for. Eventually, we’ve made room for more petitions as well, but the result has been that my children’s spontaneous prayers now start “Dear God, thank you for…” rather than “God, I want….” I was reminded that our children don’t have to be taught to ask for things, but they do have to be taught to sa…
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August 28, 2017
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Strangers to Ourselves: Reading Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees

by Myles Werntz
…uma of many kinds, and there is no ideal refugee, but only strangers to welcomed. But the call to welcome strangers, as The Refugees reminds us, is not because we are those with ample goods and the refugees with nothing, but because we have often become strangers to ourselves, closed off to the world in an attempt to hide from our own pasts. We may attempt to hide from our own pasts, but as in the classic ghost stories, and as Nyguen shows, the pa…
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October 26, 2021
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The Bottom Line: A Christian Perspective on Engineering

by Justin Vander Werff, Sam Walhof
…nt-engineering consultants for a local electrical engineering design-build company, Interstates, based in Sioux Center. This type of summer experience we have coined as an “externship,” because while the experience is similar to an engineering internship, the students actually bring their own outside, external knowledge (and the faculty advisor’s experience) into the work to provide valuable consulting expertise to the company. At the end of the e…
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April 12, 2016
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Are Christian Children Selfish?

by Abby Foreman
…as that they do not yet fully understand, which results in them being less open and generous towards others. Teaching right from wrong is a foundational task for parents and is an important part of moral development. Let us not forget that as recipients of undeserved grace, we should also be teaching and modeling the central role of grace in our understanding of the world and in our treatment of people, all of whom bear the image of our Creator. P…
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November 20, 2017
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Thankful in Unexpected Places

by Carlye Gomes
…of West Africa, of Southeast Asia… yet the only door God allowed to remain open was the one I stepped through on June 22, 2017. My experience of God has been that He is the great re-director of plans. When I asked for adventure, it was quite intentional of Him to lead me just 58.6 miles north-and-west of my childhood home. I know I’m not alone in this ache for a story filled with wild adventure and moments that steal the very breath from our chest…
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August 15, 2022
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Learning to Disagree in a Cancel Culture

by Elizabeth Hall
…are expanded, you learn more deeply about your own perspective, and you become a more nuanced, complex thinker. But if professors and classmates don’t express diverse perspectives because of the fear of being shamed, ostracized, or called out, everybody loses.  “…this polarized, hostile climate doesn’t just affect interactions on social media and politics; it also undermines these purposes of education.” Where do you see yourself in this situatio…
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November 21, 2017
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Why I’m Thankful for Failure

by Donald Roth
…hat looked to be the potential implosion of my legal career in a time when competition was only set to become more fierce, and a man referred to by the other associates in tones of reverence was about to tear me a new one. But, that’s not what happened. In what I can only take to be the voice of providence, this man went on to praise the quality of my writing, acknowledging that it differed from the norm, but praising its character and later encou…
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April 10, 2020
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Discovering the Good in Good Friday

by Allison Wordes
…s to live in this absence of busyness, I came to the passage of Matthew 5. Opening up my Bible to this chapter, I was struck by the relevance to my situation. I have rarely spent time with this sermon because it always seemed rather over-preached and felt a little dry to me. However, this time it was like the lens of my viewpoint had focused, becoming sharper than before. In giving his sermon on the mount, Jesus is talking to his disciples. Well-k…
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April 20, 2017
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Devotions

A Lasting Promise

by Ed Starkenburg
…ost of every opportunity” to be imitators of Christ and praying for God to open doors for the gospel message. When we live as God intends, people notice the difference and are interested in why we’re watchful, thankful, and filled with peace and love. In the midst of people living for the selfish joy of the moment, that type of life stands out. We have opportunities to be wise, watchful, and thankful. Make the most of those opportunities rather th…
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September 25, 2018
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Vulnerability and Fauxnerability: Learning the Difference is Essential for a Leader

by Chuck DeGroat
…the courageous waters of vulnerability, risking just a bit more each day, opening themselves in a way that opens others, sharing their stories in a way that opens us up to see our participation in The Story. Ultimately, fauxnerability is as old as Genesis 3, and a path of ultimate vulnerability has been paved by one who did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but emptied himself, becoming a servant. The vulnerable one is a ser…
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December 7, 2015
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Advent: Lessons in Waiting

by Barb Hoekstra
…er feeling physically sick as my husband and I waited for our son, Max, to come to our family from an orphanage in China. Thirteen months felt like an awful endlessness. During this very uncomfortable wait for Max, I was driven to consider waiting in better ways. I was led to two Advent readings, one by Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt, titled Action in Waiting (1998) and another by Henri Nouwen, titled Waiting for God (1993). Blumhardt, introduced m…
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April 14, 2016
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Ministry on the Edges of Neo-Pagan North America

by Brian and Betsy Turnbull
…and spiritual transformation (loving God). By getting started, a missional community becomes a closely-knit group of people on a mission together. As individuals of the group engage their own personal transformation and the transformation of those around them, they begin to see glimpses of a spiritual transformation taking hold in the larger community around them. Feder, Michelle, “Are we Losing Our Religion? Searching for Spirituality in Seattle,…
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July 21, 2016
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Consuming Rightly: The Task of Christian Higher Education

by Jason Lief
…for all to share. Or it is a wedding banquet in which the doors are thrown open, the poor are welcomed, and the sick are healed. It is a way of life shaped by an economy of the Eucharist, the gift of grace that is ours as we consume the body and blood of Jesus Christ—a form of consumption that does not require credentials or grades, money or branding, but a gift that brings healing and forgiveness. As Jesus makes very clear, this way of life is at…
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December 1, 2022
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Giving up Busyness for Advent—Peace

by April Fiet
…disciples prior to the crucifixion. In this multi-chapter teaching, Jesus comforts his anxious followers and reminds them that he is giving them his peace. He will not leave them alone. He will send the Holy Spirit to comfort them and remind them of what’s true when the world is telling them a different story. I imagine that the disciples had a hard time receiving this teaching at the time. It’s hard to hear words of comfort and peace when you ar…
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