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March 9, 2016
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Essays

Sacred Ground

by Edie Lenz
…ave all been there or we will all be there someday; this reminder gives me compassion for those who walk through the valley and a curiosity about where God is in the midst of loss. If we know and believe that God is there, then we only need eyes and hearts open to hear and see. When I was 16, my dad decided that he could no longer deal with the pain of living. Dad kept secrets from the world, the biggest of which was his hatred for himself and his…
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January 20, 2016
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Creative Consumption

by Sara Alsum-Wassenaar
…ore with less. When your focus is more on giving than taking, you are more open to focusing on your community and being stewards of what God has given us. Consumption and wholeness Consumerism is driven by a mentality that a product will satisfy a desire. For example, if you want to be beautiful, then you should use this facial moisturizer, or if you want to have lots of friends, then you should drink this beverage. Once you accumulate enough of t…
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May 27, 2017
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Devotions

The Voice of His Word

by James Calvin Schaap
…igan, I mean I grew up close enough to hear its continuous roar through my open bedroom window, close enough to ride my J.C. Higgins down to the beach and go skinny-dipping, one fairly comfortable mile from the steeple of the Dutch Calvinist church where I went to catechism on Saturday mornings. I grew up on Lake Michigan the way some people grow up on meat and potatoes. In high school we’d pair off, snuggle up in our cars at the end of the lake r…
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July 27, 2015
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Devotions

Family, Dirt-Bikes, and Education

by Liz Moss
…f providing an opportunity for literacy and education to children from the community in partnership with Ethiopia Reads’ “Horse-Powered Literacy” initiative. Ethiopia Reads collaborates with communities to build schools, plant libraries, train educators, boost literacy, and provide youth and families with the tools to improve their lives. And, the Horse-Powered Literacy program works with deep-rural communities to give young students a beginning i…
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June 3, 2022
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Culture

Top 5: Classic Movies For Summer Vacation

by Josh Matthews
…sic still worth watching. To Be or Not To Be (1942) This mid-war screwball comedy is about an acting company staging “Hamlet” while being embroiled in an espionage saga. Directed by Hollywood great Ernst Lubistch, the second half of the film is both insane and potent, as one of the actors repeatedly pretends to be Hitler in front of Nazi officers. (In general, the great screwball comedies are among the great films. For more in this vein, check out…
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June 13, 2023
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A Journey Toward Humanity: A Review of Recovering Racists

by Lexi Schnaser
…nited States, and currently lives in Canada. This range of experiences has opened her eyes to injustices committed against Black, Indigenous, and People of Color across the world, writing how she is “deeply aware that racism is a pandemic.”3 McVicker says that many white people aim to prove how not racist they are, that they are “a good white person.”4 Real recovery, she writes, can only happen when we hit rock bottom. When we see ourselves in the…
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December 7, 2015
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Advent: Lessons in Waiting

by Barb Hoekstra
…ssively, helplessly, anxiously, and angrily. Waiting is so pervasive and encompassing it moves beyond being a mental act, causing bodily responses such as thumb twiddling, hand wringing, nail biting, and fist pounding. I can remember 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…
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December 27, 2017
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Taking Off Our Armor

by Dawn Berkelaar
…oundaries, and engagement.”5 Toward that end, consider the following: Self-compassion combats perfectionism. Brown comments, “…if we want freedom from perfectionism, we have to make the long journey from ‘What will people think?’ to ‘I am enough.’”6 One way to do this is to cultivate self-compassion: be kind to yourself; recognize that others struggle, too, and be mindful—acknowledge painful feelings without letting them take over. Accepting that…
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May 18, 2022
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Glory in Ordinary Living

by Mariellen Van Nieuwenhuyzen
…h our very cells, muscles, tissues, and teeth.”5. Even more so, this was a command given to the early church. When Paul wrote to the Corinthians, he told them that even our eating and drinking should be done to the glory of God.6 “There is no task too small or too routine to reflect God’s glory and worth.” Tish Harrison Warren It is understandable that you, in all the beautiful complexity God has created you in, want more for this life than your b…
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July 28, 2017
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Devotions

Longing for God

by Ashley Bloemhof
…ple display themselves in verse 131 as the psalmist professes to “long for commandments” so profoundly that “I open my mouth and pant.” “Pant” may strike one as a rather mammal-like term. After all, dogs pant in need of water on a hot day, and horses pant in need of rest after a strenuous ride. In both cases, these animal are in need and their bodies are desperate for relief—and they know it. Turning to the condition of the soul, then, how thirsty…
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January 19, 2017
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Beers and Carols

by Caleb Schut
…I want to see them. I want to be a part of them. I want to be expecting them like Simeon and Anna sitting on the temple steps, never giving up hope that the incarnation of God’s Spirit would yet come. I want to jog people’s memories so that they stand with their eyes open in the midst of the church, remembering a forgotten God who has never forgotten them….
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July 27, 2017
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Tourism with Worldview

by Derek Buteyn
…ssful “tourism” is to live into the feelings of discomfort; to learn to be comfortable with the uncomfortable. I get the sense that in our independent, self-assured American culture, we tend to project even more confidence when we lack control, dominating as if to conform the situation ourselves, rather than letting ourselves be okay with the feeling of uncertainty. What do we desire to experience in travel? Is it a version of our destination that…
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October 6, 2015
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Heart of Stone and Heart of Flesh

by John Visser
…onal financial stewardship is much broader than budgeting or tithing: it encompasses marital relationships, educational choices, consumption habits, planning, patience, sexual purity, marital commitment, parent-child interaction, and literally hundreds of other personal life choices. Attitudes like humility and respect or a willingness to learn or admit mistakes build up both organizations and the economy. Truth-telling increases stewardship by en…
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July 9, 2015
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How (and Why) to Give the Gift of Rest

by Leah Zuidema
…y on a need-to-know or need-to-participate basis. This prevents a flood of communications, meetings, and information, and it minimizes long, complex interactions over routine items that could be handled without everyone weighing in. Sometimes informing with a summary after the fact is more helpful than adding numerous people into a meeting or sending constant email cc:’s, forwards, or reply-all messages. Practice the 24-hour rule. In especially ch…
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December 14, 2016
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Devotions

Thirst and Gratitude

by Chelsea Axford Reynhout
…God is my survival. I forget because I have never had to remember. I drink freely, habitually, and ungratefully of God’s presence. So today I sat in a nest of blankets and pillows with my Bible open, holding a tall glass of water. I began reading Psalm 42, and at every verse I lingered and took a long, slow sip from the glass. I noted the temperature, that it seemed to me to be the perfect level of cold. I tasted the sweetness that I imagine can o…
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February 6, 2015
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5 Tips for a Successful Parent and Teacher Relationship

by Gwen Marra
…ill others may not be ready for homework until after your evening meal. Be open to trying different times based on your child’s behavior. Often children come home from school and they are worn out. They have “held it together” for the past seven hours and sometimes they let their frustrations out when they walk in the door. Allow them some space. Allow them some time to unwind. Tip #3: Be available, but don’t badger. If your child wants to share a…
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March 24, 2015
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Welcome the Stranger

by Rikki Heldt
…prayer, and encouragement from my host family, friends, and the Christian community. A community that took me, the alien and stranger, into their open arms. I never in my wildest dreams thought I would be the German citizen teaching Spanish at a Christian Reformed college in Northwest Iowa. It wasn’t my plan to be separated from family, friends, and a language and culture I understood and fit into. But it was God’s plan. God used immigration, fir…
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October 5, 2018
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Culture

Movie Review “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”

by Josh Matthews
…ed his show. A short scene in the movie claims that he believed in a “wide-open Christianity” that infused a “spiritual vision” into the show. His core theological doctrine was a twist on the Second Great Commandment: love your neighbor and love yourself. The “love yourself” part resembles the feel-good, power-of-positive-thinking dogmas of Presbyterian pastors of the mid-twentieth-century era, such as Norman Vincent Peale and Robert Schuller. So…
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September 13, 2016
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What a Teacher Can Add that Google Can’t

by Al Bandstra
…t morning and looked up—escapes me now. But I can still see her mouth drop open and her face break into a smile. It was people like her who opened my eyes to the dazzlements of creation. To them, subject matter was more than information; it called for a response. And teachers’ reactions, when sincere, are often contagious—like that tree on the corner that seems to ignite the ones around it. Miss Arends could take on any jock on the basketball cour…
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April 18, 2016
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Can Christians Really Do All Things?

by Neal DeRoo
…d for the good of others, doesn’t mean that nobody can. After all, my shortcomings are not everyone else’s shortcomings, just like not everyone shares my strengths. And so, the fact that I would be led into temptation by something need not mean that other people would be if they were to do the same thing. We are not carbon copies of the same model, but unique members of the body of Christ. We cannot all do the same things with the same skill or wi…
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March 30, 2017
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Culture

“Beauty and the Beast”

by Josh Matthews
…rue Alpha Male and will get the girl: the noble Beast, who just needs some companionship and feminine refinement to become a true gentleman, or Gaston, who is too nasty to reproduce with. (I kid not; the movie makes overt reference to Belle having children with Gaston multiple times.) Belle, meanwhile, realizes that she couldn’t care less if she lives in a big city or not. As a serious reader of all books, she’ll trade her dreams of adventures in…
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January 7, 2017
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Devotions

The Voice of God

by Erin Olson
…only be heard when we’re sitting quietly still. Sometimes the Lord’s voice comes booming in loudly like thunder. This week I was speaking with an elderly woman in our community who spent much of her life serving as a nurse in different parts of Africa. When someone asked her how she knew she was being called to serve in that way, she went on to explain how she was sitting in church and her pastor was preaching from Isaiah that says “Who will go fo…
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July 25, 2022
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The Rocks Cry Out: A Review of The Storyteller

by Jason Lief
…her God speaking to us through the poetic utterances that echo with divine compassion and empathy. It’s no longer the moral gatekeepers who build their walls to create division and foster guilt and shame who speak for God; it’s the prophetic voices that enact reconciliation, restoration, and the joy of resurrection. If the church doesn’t want to proclaim the good news, the rocks will cry out. In The Storyteller, we hear their voices. Luke 19:39-40…
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June 20, 2017
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Practicing Prayerful Communication

by Gwen Marra
…l-knowing and all-powerful? Why does he need me to pray? I find it easy to come to God with my prayers when I am in great need. When someone I know is hurting, I pray to God asking for help for them. I pray before meals and when I have my devotions. Lately, I have been challenging myself not only to make prayer more than just a routine or a habit, but also to interweave it in my day. I have been praying to God to open my eyes to see him throughout…
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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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