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What is Escapism? What does Jesus have to say about it?

Editors note: Today we welcome City Chapel to the Luminex Blog!  City Chapel is a new Luminex-supported church plant emerging in downtown Grand Rapids, under the leadership of the Rev.’s Ron and Anna Radcliffe!  Check out this cool video about their latest preview worship service here. You can also go to citychapel.org for all the information about this exciting ministry.  Today’s …

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Growth Through Grafting

In the Parable of the Sower, Jesus talks about sowing the Word of God. How can church leaders best do this in the context of their congregation? On this week’s Whiteboard Wednesday, Mike Gafa, Luminex Coordinator, talks with us about something called growth through grafting. This idea is based on Jesus’ Parable of the Sower. In this parable, the seed …

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A Letter from our President

A Note from Luminex: The following is a letter from Branson Parler, President of the Synod of the Great Lakes (Reformed Church in America). A Pastoral Letter to the churches of the Great Lakes Regional Synod, RCA. Friends, In the last few weeks, informal trackers and tabulators of the RCA amendment votes are reporting that the two amendments (one addressing the …