Jan – Feb 2025 | Reformed Herald

Moisés and Jade Alpuche, from Valle de Gracia Reformed Church in Shafter, CA traveled to Baja California in 2024.  Under the auspices of Reformed Mission Services, the two spent a week of service at Mount of Olives orphanage in Baja California, Mexico.  This report is drawn from their experiences. Moisés: We heard about this opportunity

This past September, I had the privilege of attending a conference hosted by the Barnabas Foundation in Tinley Park, Illinois. The conference focused on planned giving strategies from a Christian perspective. As a pastor, I admit that teaching or preaching on the topic of giving is not my favorite subject. However, it is undeniably biblical

The United Reformed Churches in North America began on November 14-15, 1995. The spirit of the URCNA began earlier. Concerns about biblical and confessional faithfulness in the Christian Reformed Church had been poking up like prairie dogs in June in South Dakota since the mid-1950s. Major synodical decisions in 1972 and 1973 gravely impacted biblical

In 2 Corinthians 5:17, the Apostle Paul said, Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. What sets the Christian apart from the world is that he is a new creation, reborn by the working of the Holy Spirit in regeneration,

Dear Reader, Reformed theology supports the believer in being exquisitely grateful for the ordinary ingredients of life.   From one point of view, of course, “ordinary” is not exactly the right language.  What is ordinary about existence?  It wasn’t necessary for God to create, and so all of creation has a staggeringly free quality about