Steve Dykstra

What a fun post!

(1) The song 'I want to fall in love with you' was such a formative piece of music with me. For a good year or so, it was the vessel for my teenage angst, wanting to please...
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Hi Kathryn!

Great to hear from you. Our admin assistant called members who don't have internet access. It's a fairly small number in our context, so it worked well.

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Doug and Dan,

Thanks all for your thoughts. I agree with you that border security, including barriers and monitoring where appropriate, is crucial, and that false asylum-seeking is...
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Hi Marc,

Agree on all these points. Again, my concern is that legitimate asylum claimants are stereotyped as "illegals" or criminals in the current debate. As Christians we're specifically...
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Lloyd,

I agree that asylum seeking is ideally done according to the 'legal' process.

However, asylum-seeking is a universal human right, whether people have crossed a border...
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Dan, you write that

"...people deserve the ability to immigrate legally, in search of finding a better nation than the one they left, one that was founded on Biblical morality, economic...
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yes, interested to know if ordination is a must.

thx,

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Found this thread while searching for this info.

The status test in the Christian Reformed Church (CRC) context is normally met where an individual is ordained for service. The...
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