The Evangelical Church Blues blog is poking fun of goofy church names, and has even gone so far as to create a suburban church name generator you can use to quickly come up with a name for the megachurch you're founding in the 'burbs.

I had a bit too much fun with his name generator, and started to wonder what a name generator for churches in my own denomination would look like. Like most good Calvinists, I'm a member of the West Michigan-based Christian Reformed denomination. The lists below can be used to name your very own Reformed church in the Midwest--just pick one term at random from List 1, then List 2, and so forth until you have a full name for your church. (All in good fun, of course.) Click below for the lists...

Step 1: Choose an adjective * First * Second * Third * Only * Calvin * Last

Step 2: Choose another adjective * Grace * Dutch * Reformed * Covenant * Covenant Reformed * Grace Reformed Dutch Covenant Christian

Step 3: Choose a church type * Church * Family * Community * Fortress * Kierke * Sermonhaus

Step 4: Choose a closing prepositional phrase * of [your town] * of Grand Rapids, Michigan * of the Reformation * of Calvin * of the Elect * of Total Depravity

Now that you've picked an item from each list, just combine them. For instance, Third + Reformed + Community + of the Elect. See how easy that was? (Anyone else want to poke fun of their own denomination? Surely there's a Baptist or Methodist version waiting to be created...)