by Gareth | Mar 16, 2020 | Blog
COVID-19 has now hit very close to home. World Renew decided that the upgrade of COVID-19 Coronavirus to ‘pandemic’ status by the World Health Organization warranted the cancellation of short-term mission trips, including our CYHonduras team who were due to leave...
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...
by Gareth | Jan 15, 2020 | Blog
We live in a polarized world. And it isn’t getting any easier. But really, we should not be surprised that we are where we are. I first heard the terms ‘pluralism’ and ‘subjective truth’ in High School at youth group in the late 1990s. These were used to describe the...
by Gareth | Jan 6, 2020 | Blog
Both this year and last year, I have been (directly or indirectly) told that we did not sing a particular song on Christmas Day historically sung on Christmas Day here at Calvary: Ere Zij God (A Dutch hymn based upon the words of the heavenly host in Luke chapter 2,...
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