https://network.crcna.org/ The Network en Tue, 23 Apr 2024 06:22:24 +0000 Thu, 12 Apr 2018 13:35:53 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/justice-inclusion/racial-reconciliation/what-i-learned-spring-break-1968 The night Dr. Martin Luther King was shot, four of us—small-town, small-college, white boys—were following the Gulf’s eastern shore on an all-night trek from south Florida to New Orleans. It was spring break, 1968, only a few months from the summer that seemed to change all of our lives. James Schaap https://network.crcna.org/topic/justice-inclusion/racial-reconciliation/what-i-learned-spring-break-1968 Thu, 12 Apr 2018 13:35:53 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/spiritual-formation/faith-nurture/god-shield “For the Lord God is a sun and a shield.” Psalm 84:11 A marriage is breaking up. It’s not pretty, but then none of them are. This one involves a good friend about whom my wife and I have worried for several years. James Schaap https://network.crcna.org/topic/spiritual-formation/faith-nurture/god-shield Mon, 27 Jun 2016 17:54:14 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/children-youth/parenting/groaning “I remembered you, O God, and I groaned; I mused, and my spirit grew faint.” Psalm 77:3 James Schaap https://network.crcna.org/topic/children-youth/parenting/groaning Wed, 13 Jan 2016 16:11:53 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/defining-awesome “You answer us with awesome deeds of righteousness, O God our Savior. . .”  Psalm 65:5 James Schaap https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/defining-awesome Tue, 03 Nov 2015 13:21:03 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/pastors/bishop-whipple-takes-heart In his first charge after becoming a pastor, Henry Benjamin Whipple, who would become Bishop of Minnesota in the state's earliest years, got a note from a distressed woman who asked him to please come and visit her dying husband. James Schaap https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/pastors/bishop-whipple-takes-heart Thu, 29 Aug 2013 10:18:53 +0000