This is part two of our very brief look at prayer. It will also be the last blog of 2025. I will return to this space in January of 2026. [Don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss a blog.] In my previous blog I outlined a brief theology of prayer and what we can expect when we pray. In this blog I want to draw a few conclusions based on what we learned. There are a lot of conclusions we could draw but I will only make a few here. The first conclusion I need to draw is base

The men have just finished discussing the Reformation Triangle for spiritual formation in our Men’s Theology book, A Heart Aflame for God: A Reformed Approach to Spiritual Formation by Matthew Bingham. I’ll spare you the details (ask a man in the church for them if you like) but the triangle includes Scripture, meditation, and prayer. The topic of prayer has been on my mind for some time and our discussion of Tuesday night got me thinking that I should write about it. [I wil

NOTE:  I have invited the contributions of Stu Reimer to write in this space on the issues of marriage and family. If you follow CRC at all you will know Stu to be my frequent substitute in the pulpit and I am looking forward to his work as my substitute from time to time in this space. Expect his blogs to appear every 6 weeks or so. Stu is no expert on the things on which I have asked him to write (Just ask his wife and children), but he is a committed reformed Christian and

CRT forces us to choose between the witness of Scripture and the cultural observations and philosophies upon which they are built.