Articles from the Faculty

Growth, Challenges, and the Road Ahead for the URCNA

The URCNA faces questions that will define its future: Can it plant churches beyond its ethnic roots? Will younger generations value hard-won confessional commitments? And what does missions look like for a federation that prizes local church autonomy?

What Makes a Church Confessionally Reformed? The Theological Identity of the URCNA

From examining ministers on 16th-century confessions to requiring systematic preaching through the Heidelberg Catechism, the URCNA's commitments reveal how doctrine shapes everything from Sunday worship to ecclesiastical accountability.

Why Pastors Should Encourage Young Men to Relocate for Seminary

The young man who could shepherd churches for the next forty years might be sitting in your congregation right now, waiting for someone to see what he cannot see in himself. Will you be the pastor who speaks up?

From Crisis to Federation: The Birth of the URCNA

What began with a single letter from an Illinois consistory in 1986 became a decade-long journey through conferences, controversies, and careful deliberation, culminating in a moment when roughly 40 churches took the unprecedented step of forming an entirely new federation.

The Theological Crisis in the CRC: Understanding the Roots of the URCNA

The debate over women's ordination didn't split the Christian Reformed Church; it was just the symptom that exposed a decades-long erosion of biblical authority that had been quietly unraveling in the late 20th century.

Catechism Preaching: Faithful Exposition for the Church Today

The church is never strong when it's doctrinally dumb—but too often, catechism preaching has been reduced to cold lectures or five-minute decorations tacked onto unrelated sermons. What if there's a better way to help your congregation confess with God what God's Word actually says?

Articles from the Faculty

MAIN PAGES

SEMINARY HOURS