Four years ago, at right about this time, I started the blog with T.S. Eliot's observation that “midwinter spring is…

Our beliefs about our dead family and friends are both tender and explosive. We don’t want them trifled with.

That network has eroded for three reasons The CRC is far more multiethnic than it used to be. Second, thorough…

This is but the beginning of the birth pangs.

Though shadows did their best to hide it, a small section looked to be open, as if someone left off…

When my mother died, she was born into glory. And something else happened.

Leave it to Jesus to pack a punch in a sermon of just seven words. (Alright, technically it’s 41 words…

The truth is that the churches of Paul and Peter are gone, but the Church of Jesus Christ remains.

As I have noted here on the RJ Blog before, my Center for Excellence in Preaching at Calvin Theological Seminary…

This idea of scratching someone’s back usually comes with the intention that they’d do the same for me.