About Me
I grew up in West Michigan in the Christian Reformed Church. I graduated from Calvin College (majors in Classical Languages & Philosophy, 2006) and Calvin Seminary (M.Div., 2009), and was ordained as the pastor of East Palmyra CRC (Palmyra, NY) in October 2009. I am married to Kelly, a Physical Therapist, and we are expecting a baby boy in October! I enjoy ministry in the church, especially when the church connects both with both the tradition of the Reformed confessions and with the world around us.
Interests
My Topics
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Is "Faith Formation" a good phrase/category? October 26, 2010 |
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[Q&A] What's the best way to plan for low and irregular Sunday School attendance? January 3, 2012 |
My Comments
Here are some things we've done: We have repositioned the font so that it is visually in line with the table and the pulpit. (It might sound trivial, but the next week I received a comment...
At Synod, I heard about a competing service being run by a relative of one of the delegates (if I remember right). It sounded like that service might have some advantages over theCommon.org and it...
My hope for the new Psalter would be that one setting for each Psalm would be as close as possible to the text -- that is, an actual (easily singable) musical setting of the Psalm (or of several...
Should we use the church as institute as a platform for telling the truth in political discussions as Mrs. Kooyman suggests? The best wisdom seems to be to affirm:
(1) that the church as...
