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How to Build His Church (2) and Notes of Interest

A discerning minister colleague tells me that I must get rid of the idea that the Christian Reformed Church will ever return to what it was once upon a time. To indulge in such wishful thinking, he insists, is futile and fails to recognize the lesson of church history that should be as clear to […]

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Oh no! You and I even worse than Ebenezer Scrooge? That detestable old skinflint, a curmudgeon if ever there was one, all but demonic in being a stingy, miserable old miser—even worse than him? That just can’t be! Our secular Christmas observance with all its happiness, hubbub, anti hilarity is once again rising to its […]

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A Dream, a Response, and a Request

“The church,” Calvin says in his Institutes, “is called ‘catholic’, or ‘universal’, because there could not be two or three churches unless Christ be torn asunder—which cannot happen!” But where is the visible manifestation of this? The lack of this is a cause for deep sorrow. And to be comfortably unconcerned is sin. Of course, this […]

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