by Gareth | Feb 24, 2020 | Blog
This week marks the beginning of the season of Lent. Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, and tomorrow is “Fat Tuesday” (Mardi Gras makes it sound nicer, but translated it still means the same). I never really understood (and likely never will) the whole practice of “Fat...
by Gareth | Feb 10, 2020 | Blog
I concluded my previous post with the same question I opened it: how does Calvary CRC become a church of disciple-makers? I felt it was necessary to dive into the history (of sorts) of disciple-making before addressing the question for our own context. There is always...
by Gareth | Feb 3, 2020 | Blog
I’ve mentioned before that the origin of the English word disciple shares similar etymology to the Greek word mathetes (ma-they-tays). Disciple is the Latin translation of the Greek word, and both mean, essentially ‘pupil’ or ‘learner’. It has the same root as the...
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