I grew up in the CRC, and am still here, along with my family. I'm married to Daryl, who has a construction business. I had a CPA license for 10 or so years, then I added EX to the front, and MOM to the back, so now I'm an EX CPA, MOM =). I am MOM to Duncan, Ian and Samantha. Our family also owns a raspberry farm, and in the summers we get to work out there together.
I would encourage you to contact Pastor Scott Roberts at Hope in Christ (CRC) in Bellingham, Washington. They have recently partnered with a house of prayer type ministry, Light of the World Prayer Center (LOWPC). I am on the board of this ministry with several other CRC (Dr. Alvin Vander Griend, author of Love to Pray, the Joy of Prayer, and Praying the Father's Heart, is another CRC member on this board) and non-CRC members. I cannot tell you how encouraged and blessed I was/we were when God orchestrated moving this inter-denominational prayer ministry onto a CRC campus, not through any effort, other than prayer, of the CRC board members - that's a whole testimony in itself. This ministry goes beyond our CRC denomination with a beautiful blend of the diverse body of Christ from all different streams - mixing of all things ;) ...reformed and pentecostal!! PRAISE GOD!! and I think is evidence of God honoring the CRC when we reach out beyond the traditional Reformed walls to His greater Kingdom (and embracing His Holy Spirit more fully). It's about so much more than our denomination...It's about His Body, His Bride, the Church! and as much as I love the CRC, been a part of it all my life, we have much to learn from other streams, and, they hopefully can learn from us!
The church I attend - 2nd CRC in Lynden, participates in 24/7 prayer, taking one day a month to cover that day with relay type prayer, along with 30-40 other churches in the county that all take a day each month, so that there is continual prayer. One particular scripture where this is mentioned is Luke 18:7; the story of the reluctant judge and the persistent widow...Jesus states..."....and will not God bring about justice for His chosen ones, who cry out to Him day and night? Will He keep putting them off? I tell you, He will see that they get justice, and quickly." There are more scriptural references to 24/7 prayer, but that's one powerful example. (Also research the Moravians, who prayed continually for over 100 years)!
The prayer center is working on 24/7 worship and prayer on-site, and has 7-10 prayer missionaries - several in their 20's - that are supported similar to "traditional" missionaries that go out and serve in the "field" but the prayer missionaries spend 20-40 plus hours each week in worship, prayer and service! This is based on the concept of the tabernacle of David being restored (Acts 15:16-17), where David assigned and financed 4000 Levites as musicians to worship before the Ark of the LORD, night and day! (1 Chron 23:5; 1 Chron 9:33) Can you imagine, if this level of worship and prayer is going on all over our nation? Think "Days of Elijah"...and these are the days of Your servant, David, rebuilding the temple of praise... I go crazy just thinking about it because it is SO exciting!
I could write on this a long time, in fact I have pages and many Biblical references if interested in more on the tabernacle of David...and other prayer related concepts from scripture, like the 24/7 prayer. These are just some concepts that we believe are a bit of what is on God's heart, we don't claim they are the best or the only way, but several of many ways to get in step with King Jesus, the Great Intercessor. We still have a long ways to go, before I would say we are a house of prayer...but that is our prayer
Oh, LORD, pour out Your Spirit of prayer and supplication upon us, stir our hearts to spend time with You! May we hunger for Your Presence as David did, as Moses did! Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, for what You are doing among Your people! May we be faithful, may we be obedient...May we glorify You in all we do...because it is all about You!
haha... you can always challenge the congregation to double their giving!! really! on 1.1.11 we were so challenged at a non crc worship gathering, and after the first gasp for air, like "Really LORD? cash flow already sucks!". But we had been praying into God's economy and know that giving is a significant key to His economy, and so my husband and I prayed about it, and the LORD gave us a strategic plan of increasing our giving 1% per month, so it wasn't quite such a shock all at once. Just a week ago, I was making some year end up adjustments for his business and happened to look at our net income for the year, and it was up SIGNIFICANTLY! and he's in construction, so we know the economy hasn't changed that much. and that's just one of the blessings we've experienced!!
What a beautiful family =) and testimony.. (and name!!) . Praise God...thank you so much for sharing... isn't it crazy how the Word becomes much more living and active when you're listening to Him?
So who do you get to "listen" and pray with that have so much experience? That is awesome... would love to hear more about your journey. We are in training... Really excited about the appointment of Moses Chung as director of Home missions...a Spirit led man of prayer...he just spent 3 years in S Korea in "the" praying church... if you have a few minutes (about 18- I know how that can be with little ones=) and haven't already done so... watch his "welcome" speech from synod, he so resonated with my heart for prayer, especially about 12-13 minutes in...
the CRC staff separated his speech out so you can watch it, but you might want to watch the intro as well, which you will have to go to Tues pm1 for...
Hey Rich... welcome... good to see you on here... if you don't remember, I met you a prayer summit @ Cedar Springs a few years back... great thoughts and insight... thx. for sharing...
definitely thought you guys looked young enough that they were yours =)
I re-read my post on the link and realized the "about 12-13 minutes in" could be read 2 different ways.... so when you watch the link, Moses really starts talking about his prayer journey in Korea, that starts at about 12 or 13 minutes in, and this goes through about 17 minutes or so, just in case you are listening for it only between 12-13 minutes... sorry if I caused confusion
That is so interesting and excitiing how God is connecting us in the area of listening prayer... I too, have prayed with others involved in healing prayer ministries (but not CRC or even reformed backgrounds), and went through some training for this. At this point in my life - with little ones (11, 7 and 5), I don't get to go in and pray with them very often, so most of my prayer time is at home... we do pray together as a family every night before bed, and, especially if we need direction with something, take time for listening prayer... my son, who's 11 has several testimonies of scriptures the LORD put on his heart that were beautiful answers to what we were asking.
One testimony is last Christmas, I asked him to sing with me in a combined church Christmas cantata that brought singers from the local CRC's together, since they were organizing a youth choir to participate as well. So I mentioned it to him, and his response was "do I have to?" My response, was, "no, you get to sing, but you have to have a good attitude." So, that night when we had our prayer time together, I said, let's ask God, whether He wants you to sing in this cantata. We were quiet about 5 minutes, I rec'd a scripture, but didn't share it right away, and then I asked him if he had any thoughts or any scriptures came to him... He said "Isaiah 5"... I asked him, "do you know what Is. 5 says?" He responded "no", so we looked it up, and Is. 5 is the "Song of the Vineyard" and starts with... now let me sing to my Well-beloved... So I asked my son, what he thought God was telling him, and he said "Sing!" (can't get any clearer than that!) and for the next half hour, he continued to receive more scripture references about singing...
The scripture that "popped" into my head was "make a joyful noise!" We both sang in the Christmas cantata last year =) !
Now, there's a whole lot more to this story...because when we showed up at the first practice, by the time we started practicing the first song, it was my attitude that was not good (and that's putting it mildly)... and I just realized as I was writing this, that God was going to hold me to the words I said to my son and wanted me to sing it with the right attitude as well... and boy, did He ever "undo" my bad attiude... the first verse, I didn't even know what I was singing I was so mad, in the second verse He melted the hardness in my heart and by the 3rd verse I was a basket case about ready to walk out because I did not know what I was going to do with all the "fluids" flowing from various places of my face... I had NOT "listened" to the prompting of the Holy Spirit as I walked in to practice that "you might want to get some kleenex"...My intellect immediately responsed to that with a snarky thought..."why would I need kleenex for practice?" and dismissed the thought... it was what I call a "terrible, beautiful" experience of being "undone", taking out the ugliness that was in my heart, and replacing it with a beautiful piece of His heart...
I don't mind being more specific about what was going on and why I was mad and how He got my attention, but it gets kind of long for this post... I will work on writing that out, and maybe if the network gets a testimony tab (hint hint moderators;-), I can post it under that some time =)...
I can't wait to hear about your trip...that is way cool... I sensed the Spirit when I read about it, and now again, when I'm thinking about it (I just read it again, and I felt another wave of the Spirit)... If you are blogging on it, let me know where I can find that... would love to hear everything... It's going to be amazing...
Well, I have been to a number of prayer retreats. several were pastor/prayer leader summits. Some were 3 days, some are 1/2 day, about 4 hours, and some are 1-2 days, some included some teaching. Some were facilitated by Dennis Fuqua, who uses a wonderful, fresh approach to prayer, and focuses a lot on worship based prayer. I think having someone like Dennis come for a weekend to teach, preach and pray with a church or several churches would be very helpful in expanding/growing a church's/community's prayer life. It opens the door to praying differently then we have traditionally prayed in our reformed tradition. It's not wild and crazy, but beautiful and sweet, with everything directed by the Holy Spirit, and straight out of scripture... something our conservative inclinations can be ok with. Dennis is a very down to earth man of prayer, and we've appreciated his leading through his sensitivity to the Holy Spirit in growing the level of prayer in our area. let me find the link to his ministry, International Renewal:
I also get together regularly with Dr. Alvin Vander Griend, Author of love to pray, and a founder of the Harvest Prayer Ministries. I know he has amazing and powerful teachings on prayer, with very practical guides to help the church grow a "culture of prayer."
The board for the prayer center i help serve on, tries to have a quarterly prayer retreat. So far, these have been 9-4ish on a Friday or Sat. We will spend time confessing and praying for each other (James 5:16). We will pray about different ministries connected to the prayer center, we will pray for prayer events, we will pray for our prayer missionaries, etc. ...let's see how does that translate into a church... confessing is same, praying for ministries would be sunday school, cadet/gem programs, catechism classes, bible studies, nursery, music, youth group, whatever you guys have going on, and then also maybe praying for para church ministries that your members are involved with like feeding homeless and poor, schools, supporting single moms, or whatever it might be. You can also pray for denominational leaders (ie Board of Trustees, Executive Director, Home Missions Director and their staff) and issues, which we generally don't get to spend very much corporate prayer time on.
and then just pray for the Holy Spirit to pour out through prayer...
I've had extended times of prayer together from 2+ plus hours to 3 days, some were held at church, some were at a retreat facility. I will say, most people, including most pastors, are not ready for 3 days for various reasons, but hopefully that day is coming to the crc =)
Steve, there are lots of options, and I think you get to pray into what God wants it to look like for your church. some questions: What are the funds available for it? How busy people are might limit it to an evening or an evening and part of the next day, but a prayer retreat is far better than meeting the Pres. of the US. You would drop everything you have going on for that opportunity =), right? We get to meet with this amazing God of the universe, our Creator, the One Who loves us beyond our wildest imagination!
Hope and pray you have a powerful and profound prayer retreat where you encounter God in fresh and beautiful ways!
I wish we did have some experience with this Tim... I will pass this on to Alvin VG, if he has any insight for you, we are on a prayer board together, and our meeting is tomorrow...
Thanks Colin...good to hear from you... I got to attend a summit with you in 2009 =), I missed 2010, and missed you this year, but I got to meet Mike VanderKwaak sp? and his Mennonite office partner...fyi Dennis is coming Oct. 3 to B'ham - not sure if it's a full day or 4 hr, but you can get that on your schedule and share the word...
Bless your heart Amanda, and welcome to the team... thank you for sharing a bit of how these concerns were put on your heart over the years...
praying for wisdom, compassion and a forehead of flint when needed, for you and all those who deal with an area that still too many in the church respond to with a willful blindness...
and as thankful as I am for the progress that has been made over the last 30 years... there is still much work to be done...
I see this post by Colin Watson originally posted in 2020 is currently being featured under the Spiritual formations tab...
We desire to be churches and communities that cultivate practices of prayer and spiritual discipline, transforming our lives and communities by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Hmmmm... One of the things that I have realized over the last number of years is that traditionally we (reformed) have had a tendency to focus on a transactional more than a relational faith.
That tendency has carried over into our structures and systems as well. We have emphasized a hierarchical authority and power of leadership over others/power differentials, instead of a mutual, relational LOVING and SERVING ONE ANOTHER! (let alone the other 40+ ONE ANOTHER commands). That is one of the transformations needed in our lives, communities and denomination with the help of the Holy Spirit.
Posted in: Do you know of specific CRC churches that would be considered "houses of prayer?"
I would encourage you to contact Pastor Scott Roberts at Hope in Christ (CRC) in Bellingham, Washington. They have recently partnered with a house of prayer type ministry, Light of the World Prayer Center (LOWPC). I am on the board of this ministry with several other CRC (Dr. Alvin Vander Griend, author of Love to Pray, the Joy of Prayer, and Praying the Father's Heart, is another CRC member on this board) and non-CRC members. I cannot tell you how encouraged and blessed I was/we were when God orchestrated moving this inter-denominational prayer ministry onto a CRC campus, not through any effort, other than prayer, of the CRC board members - that's a whole testimony in itself. This ministry goes beyond our CRC denomination with a beautiful blend of the diverse body of Christ from all different streams - mixing of all things ;) ...reformed and pentecostal!! PRAISE GOD!! and I think is evidence of God honoring the CRC when we reach out beyond the traditional Reformed walls to His greater Kingdom (and embracing His Holy Spirit more fully). It's about so much more than our denomination...It's about His Body, His Bride, the Church! and as much as I love the CRC, been a part of it all my life, we have much to learn from other streams, and, they hopefully can learn from us!
The church I attend - 2nd CRC in Lynden, participates in 24/7 prayer, taking one day a month to cover that day with relay type prayer, along with 30-40 other churches in the county that all take a day each month, so that there is continual prayer. One particular scripture where this is mentioned is Luke 18:7; the story of the reluctant judge and the persistent widow...Jesus states..."....and will not God bring about justice for His chosen ones, who cry out to Him day and night? Will He keep putting them off? I tell you, He will see that they get justice, and quickly." There are more scriptural references to 24/7 prayer, but that's one powerful example. (Also research the Moravians, who prayed continually for over 100 years)!
The prayer center is working on 24/7 worship and prayer on-site, and has 7-10 prayer missionaries - several in their 20's - that are supported similar to "traditional" missionaries that go out and serve in the "field" but the prayer missionaries spend 20-40 plus hours each week in worship, prayer and service! This is based on the concept of the tabernacle of David being restored (Acts 15:16-17), where David assigned and financed 4000 Levites as musicians to worship before the Ark of the LORD, night and day! (1 Chron 23:5; 1 Chron 9:33) Can you imagine, if this level of worship and prayer is going on all over our nation? Think "Days of Elijah"...and these are the days of Your servant, David, rebuilding the temple of praise... I go crazy just thinking about it because it is SO exciting!
I could write on this a long time, in fact I have pages and many Biblical references if interested in more on the tabernacle of David...and other prayer related concepts from scripture, like the 24/7 prayer. These are just some concepts that we believe are a bit of what is on God's heart, we don't claim they are the best or the only way, but several of many ways to get in step with King Jesus, the Great Intercessor. We still have a long ways to go, before I would say we are a house of prayer...but that is our prayer
Oh, LORD, pour out Your Spirit of prayer and supplication upon us, stir our hearts to spend time with You! May we hunger for Your Presence as David did, as Moses did! Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, for what You are doing among Your people! May we be faithful, may we be obedient...May we glorify You in all we do...because it is all about You!
May we exalt King Jesus, 24/7!
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haha... you can always challenge the congregation to double their giving!! really! on 1.1.11 we were so challenged at a non crc worship gathering, and after the first gasp for air, like "Really LORD? cash flow already sucks!". But we had been praying into God's economy and know that giving is a significant key to His economy, and so my husband and I prayed about it, and the LORD gave us a strategic plan of increasing our giving 1% per month, so it wasn't quite such a shock all at once. Just a week ago, I was making some year end up adjustments for his business and happened to look at our net income for the year, and it was up SIGNIFICANTLY! and he's in construction, so we know the economy hasn't changed that much. and that's just one of the blessings we've experienced!!
Posted in: What is listening prayer?
What a beautiful family =) and testimony.. (and name!!) . Praise God...thank you so much for sharing... isn't it crazy how the Word becomes much more living and active when you're listening to Him?
So who do you get to "listen" and pray with that have so much experience? That is awesome... would love to hear more about your journey. We are in training... Really excited about the appointment of Moses Chung as director of Home missions...a Spirit led man of prayer...he just spent 3 years in S Korea in "the" praying church... if you have a few minutes (about 18- I know how that can be with little ones=) and haven't already done so... watch his "welcome" speech from synod, he so resonated with my heart for prayer, especially about 12-13 minutes in...
the CRC staff separated his speech out so you can watch it, but you might want to watch the intro as well, which you will have to go to Tues pm1 for...
http://www.crcna.org/pages/synod_webcast_archive.cfm
bless your heart sister... with (spiritual) ears and eyes wide open
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Hey Rich... welcome... good to see you on here... if you don't remember, I met you a prayer summit @ Cedar Springs a few years back... great thoughts and insight... thx. for sharing...
Posted in: Can you recommend any good books about rural church ministry?
That is awesome!!! Thank You Jesus...
Posted in: What is listening prayer?
definitely thought you guys looked young enough that they were yours =)
I re-read my post on the link and realized the "about 12-13 minutes in" could be read 2 different ways.... so when you watch the link, Moses really starts talking about his prayer journey in Korea, that starts at about 12 or 13 minutes in, and this goes through about 17 minutes or so, just in case you are listening for it only between 12-13 minutes... sorry if I caused confusion
That is so interesting and excitiing how God is connecting us in the area of listening prayer... I too, have prayed with others involved in healing prayer ministries (but not CRC or even reformed backgrounds), and went through some training for this. At this point in my life - with little ones (11, 7 and 5), I don't get to go in and pray with them very often, so most of my prayer time is at home... we do pray together as a family every night before bed, and, especially if we need direction with something, take time for listening prayer... my son, who's 11 has several testimonies of scriptures the LORD put on his heart that were beautiful answers to what we were asking.
One testimony is last Christmas, I asked him to sing with me in a combined church Christmas cantata that brought singers from the local CRC's together, since they were organizing a youth choir to participate as well. So I mentioned it to him, and his response was "do I have to?" My response, was, "no, you get to sing, but you have to have a good attitude." So, that night when we had our prayer time together, I said, let's ask God, whether He wants you to sing in this cantata. We were quiet about 5 minutes, I rec'd a scripture, but didn't share it right away, and then I asked him if he had any thoughts or any scriptures came to him... He said "Isaiah 5"... I asked him, "do you know what Is. 5 says?" He responded "no", so we looked it up, and Is. 5 is the "Song of the Vineyard" and starts with... now let me sing to my Well-beloved... So I asked my son, what he thought God was telling him, and he said "Sing!" (can't get any clearer than that!) and for the next half hour, he continued to receive more scripture references about singing...
The scripture that "popped" into my head was "make a joyful noise!" We both sang in the Christmas cantata last year =) !
Now, there's a whole lot more to this story...because when we showed up at the first practice, by the time we started practicing the first song, it was my attitude that was not good (and that's putting it mildly)... and I just realized as I was writing this, that God was going to hold me to the words I said to my son and wanted me to sing it with the right attitude as well... and boy, did He ever "undo" my bad attiude... the first verse, I didn't even know what I was singing I was so mad, in the second verse He melted the hardness in my heart and by the 3rd verse I was a basket case about ready to walk out because I did not know what I was going to do with all the "fluids" flowing from various places of my face... I had NOT "listened" to the prompting of the Holy Spirit as I walked in to practice that "you might want to get some kleenex"...My intellect immediately responsed to that with a snarky thought..."why would I need kleenex for practice?" and dismissed the thought... it was what I call a "terrible, beautiful" experience of being "undone", taking out the ugliness that was in my heart, and replacing it with a beautiful piece of His heart...
I don't mind being more specific about what was going on and why I was mad and how He got my attention, but it gets kind of long for this post... I will work on writing that out, and maybe if the network gets a testimony tab (hint hint moderators;-), I can post it under that some time =)...
I can't wait to hear about your trip...that is way cool... I sensed the Spirit when I read about it, and now again, when I'm thinking about it (I just read it again, and I felt another wave of the Spirit)... If you are blogging on it, let me know where I can find that... would love to hear everything... It's going to be amazing...
In Him..
Posted in: What suggestions do you have for a church prayer retreat?
Well, I have been to a number of prayer retreats. several were pastor/prayer leader summits. Some were 3 days, some are 1/2 day, about 4 hours, and some are 1-2 days, some included some teaching. Some were facilitated by Dennis Fuqua, who uses a wonderful, fresh approach to prayer, and focuses a lot on worship based prayer. I think having someone like Dennis come for a weekend to teach, preach and pray with a church or several churches would be very helpful in expanding/growing a church's/community's prayer life. It opens the door to praying differently then we have traditionally prayed in our reformed tradition. It's not wild and crazy, but beautiful and sweet, with everything directed by the Holy Spirit, and straight out of scripture... something our conservative inclinations can be ok with. Dennis is a very down to earth man of prayer, and we've appreciated his leading through his sensitivity to the Holy Spirit in growing the level of prayer in our area. let me find the link to his ministry, International Renewal:
http://irm.livewebsitebuilder.com/
and this is another link for Dennis
http://livingprayerbook.web.officelive.com/aboutus.aspx
I also get together regularly with Dr. Alvin Vander Griend, Author of love to pray, and a founder of the Harvest Prayer Ministries. I know he has amazing and powerful teachings on prayer, with very practical guides to help the church grow a "culture of prayer."
The board for the prayer center i help serve on, tries to have a quarterly prayer retreat. So far, these have been 9-4ish on a Friday or Sat. We will spend time confessing and praying for each other (James 5:16). We will pray about different ministries connected to the prayer center, we will pray for prayer events, we will pray for our prayer missionaries, etc. ...let's see how does that translate into a church... confessing is same, praying for ministries would be sunday school, cadet/gem programs, catechism classes, bible studies, nursery, music, youth group, whatever you guys have going on, and then also maybe praying for para church ministries that your members are involved with like feeding homeless and poor, schools, supporting single moms, or whatever it might be. You can also pray for denominational leaders (ie Board of Trustees, Executive Director, Home Missions Director and their staff) and issues, which we generally don't get to spend very much corporate prayer time on.
and then just pray for the Holy Spirit to pour out through prayer...
I've had extended times of prayer together from 2+ plus hours to 3 days, some were held at church, some were at a retreat facility. I will say, most people, including most pastors, are not ready for 3 days for various reasons, but hopefully that day is coming to the crc =)
Steve, there are lots of options, and I think you get to pray into what God wants it to look like for your church. some questions: What are the funds available for it? How busy people are might limit it to an evening or an evening and part of the next day, but a prayer retreat is far better than meeting the Pres. of the US. You would drop everything you have going on for that opportunity =), right? We get to meet with this amazing God of the universe, our Creator, the One Who loves us beyond our wildest imagination!
Hope and pray you have a powerful and profound prayer retreat where you encounter God in fresh and beautiful ways!
Posted in: Can you share your church's experience with "Strategic Prayer Initiative?"
I wish we did have some experience with this Tim... I will pass this on to Alvin VG, if he has any insight for you, we are on a prayer board together, and our meeting is tomorrow...
Posted in: Can you share your church's experience with "Strategic Prayer Initiative?"
wow.. you are quick and thanks for deleting my 2nd save =)
Posted in: What is listening prayer?
Thanks Colin...good to hear from you... I got to attend a summit with you in 2009 =), I missed 2010, and missed you this year, but I got to meet Mike VanderKwaak sp? and his Mennonite office partner...fyi Dennis is coming Oct. 3 to B'ham - not sure if it's a full day or 4 hr, but you can get that on your schedule and share the word...
Posted in: New Director, Amanda Benckhuysen: "Why I Want to Work With Safe Church Ministry"
Bless your heart Amanda, and welcome to the team... thank you for sharing a bit of how these concerns were put on your heart over the years...
praying for wisdom, compassion and a forehead of flint when needed, for you and all those who deal with an area that still too many in the church respond to with a willful blindness...
and as thankful as I am for the progress that has been made over the last 30 years... there is still much work to be done...
be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power.
Posted in: A Denominational Emphasis on Spiritual Practices
I see this post by Colin Watson originally posted in 2020 is currently being featured under the Spiritual formations tab...
We desire to be churches and communities that cultivate practices of prayer and spiritual discipline, transforming our lives and communities by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Hmmmm... One of the things that I have realized over the last number of years is that traditionally we (reformed) have had a tendency to focus on a transactional more than a relational faith.
That tendency has carried over into our structures and systems as well. We have emphasized a hierarchical authority and power of leadership over others/power differentials, instead of a mutual, relational LOVING and SERVING ONE ANOTHER! (let alone the other 40+ ONE ANOTHER commands). That is one of the transformations needed in our lives, communities and denomination with the help of the Holy Spirit.
https://network.crcna.org/topic/spiritual-formation/lets-talk-about/case-one-another-see-these-59-commands-bible