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September 14, 2017
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Why I Homeschool

by Dawn Berkelaar
…r the needed quality of a homeschool alternative. Especially if the church comes through in communal style and in keeping with it’s side of the baptismal covenant vows, “economic reasons” should not factor into the decision at all IMHO. Dr. Douglas De Boer Here is one more factor to consider in the decision to homeschool: Christian parents who baptize their children usually vow to, “instruct these children by word and example, with the help of the…
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January 31, 2017
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Our Call to Welcome the Stranger

by Kate Kooyman
…lieve that we are a people who, like Abraham, are called to extravagant welcome as our primary identity. We serve a God who points us to an abundant life. And maybe that’s not a safe life, or a comfortable life, or a life that makes no demands on us. But if we have learned anything from Scripture, it’s that this God loves to hide the good news of that abundant life in the face of a stranger. In the face of an “angel,” though we are unaware. In the…
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October 2, 2015
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Objectivity, Story, and the Bible

by Neal DeRoo
…e will never resonate with both equally at once. Nevertheless, both remain completely true at one time.” This idea that two interpretations of the Bible can be both different and simultaneously true is very common. We aren’t really surprised to read such things about (at least some) Biblical stories, despite the fact that there are a lot of things in our lives that don’t work that way. Normally, we do not expect things to be both different and sim…
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November 10, 2015
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Playing God

by Jeff Ploegstra
…isms. Horizontal gene transfer is a well-documented phenomenon. It is most common among bacteria, but examples are found between plants and bacteria, protists and insects, and plants and insects. Often this occurs in situations where the two organisms live together in a close symbiotic relationship.1 In many respects, these organisms together represent a genetic system, and it doesn’t matter which organism has the genes. There is a whole discussio…
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October 31, 2016
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Voting in the United States

by JP Sundararajan
…my relative had admonished me, I had done my best to thrive here. I had accomplished, and overcome, and risen up. In the moment, I was particularly exhilarated by the thought that I would now be able to stand together with my family in the immigration line every time we entered the USA. This simple thought pointed to the reality of my success here, and the rightness of my new citizenship. And here we are, a nation that is torn apart and worried a…
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September 1, 2020
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How Can the Church Today Uplift the Family Without Worshipping It?

by Aaron Baart
…f church history, and of the persecuted church. Lift up people in your own community as examples of those who sacrifice for others, giving themselves to more than mere material gain, people who are actively seeking the Kingdom in daily tangible decisions. Children are indeed a gift from the Lord. And family is good. Very good. But, like every other element of the Kingdom of God, it only works when we give it away. Let’s teach our kids to know the…
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June 11, 2015
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My iPhone Made Me Do it

by Kevin Timmer
…al currents are eroding our closest relationships and with them, Christian community, including our families. It is now rare for families to find time to eat together because it is “normal” to be too busy. So while our iPhones and other technologies are not, in themselves, destroying our relationships, it is critical to remember that they come with biases that are, in concert with the surrounding cultural patterns, trying to pull us away from each…
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May 19, 2020
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Zoomed In, Zoomed Out

by Chandra Crane
…them. Believers had to be “of one heart and soul” and have “everything in common” to survive (Acts 4:32). The technology that allowed the church to have communion one with another may seem primitive to us today: ink and parchment, Roman roads and delivery systems. But, these advances were the backbone of early church communion. Now we find ourselves—approximately 2,000 years later—sending emails, meeting in online spaces, and worshiping together-…
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March 30, 2016
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How to Talk to Your Kids About Divorce

by Erin Olson
…ening. Present a united front. Both parents should be on the same page and communicate the same message to the children. Co-parenting will be your main priority for a while and your kids need to see, right away, that you can put aside your differences to communicate as their parents. This is not a time for blaming or pointing fingers. Answer questions as honestly as possible. If you’re not sure what the future holds, tell them that. Don’t make pro…
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May 2, 2016
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Prince, Common Grace, and What is Within Us

by Shelbi Gesch
…not convinced that Kuyper was right with his idea of a common grace of God opening the gates to free exploration of the dark cultural expressions of fallen man in general. Kuyper warns against the dangers of his idea at the end of his first volume of “Common Grace”. A door gives the Christian “new” felt access to the world, but world pushes back and gains access as well. The term “grace,” is misleading and gives the believer a false sense of secur…
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March 20, 2016
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Devotions

The Homer Hanky

by Valorie Zonnefeld
…palm wasn’t used for its beauty. It was a symbol of victory. So when Jesus entered Jerusalem on a donkey and believers lined the streets waving palm branches, it was a celebration similar to welcoming the Twins back to Minneapolis after securing a bid to the championship playoffs. I imagine it as a spontaneous party celebrating our Lord. Today is Palm Sunday, and many churches will include palm branches in their worship. When you see palm branches…
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May 5, 2016
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To Tell a Story

by Amy Vander Haag
…as young adults and teenagers is amazingly sweet and at times painful. My commitment to prayer has become increasingly vital and, frankly, desperately necessary from day to day. If Brandon Stanton, the creator of Humans of New York, were to bump into one of my sons or daughters on the streets, what would their story reveal? I hope with all my heart that their love and commitment to Jesus Christ would shine clear, and they would stand for the trut…
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February 19, 2017
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Devotions

In Defense of Peace

by Ashley Huizinga
…allowed to stand with the weak, to defend the defenseless. In fact, we are commanded to do so: in Psalm 82:3, “Defend” and “do justice” are not passive verbs. Jesus does not tell His followers to stand back and watch as pain is inflicted on those who cannot fight for themselves. He demands sacrifice, not the toleration of wickedness in the hope that things will get better and the scars will fade. Sometimes, things do get better. Sometimes, scars a…
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April 4, 2016
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God Loveth Adverbs: Teaching (and Living) “Christianly”

by Dave Mulder
…ly learning to bend my will more to the will of Christ, and this–I hope!--comes out in my teaching practice as well. I am grateful that I have the opportunity to continue to wrestle with these challenging questions along with you all! Marion D.+Van+Soelen Thanks for “stirring” the pot Dave! I like all the comments submitted by you and others and would add another. We continue to need Christian teachers in our government schools, however they are…
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July 18, 2016
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Is Consumerism Consuming Us?

by Howard Schaap
…means to be human. Like any distortion of humanity, “consumer” as metaphor comes with a host of bad side effects. We become dazzled by packaging, fixated on the glitzy glossy surface and misled about the true value of things. Many authors have written about how consumerism paradoxically does not result in a high value of material things—consumerism is not materialism. Rather, consumerism creates a kind of abstract relationship with things so that…
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