Defence of the Truth

In the preaching we like to hear about God’s promises to us. And within reason we would expect some exhortations. But threats? Where’s God’s love and grace in that, someone might say? And yet, in the Canons of Dort we confess that it is an element of God’s work...

You are in a hurry and the traffic lights turn red. Does it frustrate you or do you reflect Christian patience knowing that this, too, comes from God’s fatherly hand? Things are not going so well in your marriage. Do you ignore the promises you made, change your view of...

What would you do if the government said: Your schools may no longer employ only church members; they must be open to hiring people who don’t subscribe to your faith views and who reflect this in their lifestyle? That’s the direction in which reformed Christian schools are being pushed....

I expect you’ve read the account of the woman and the dragon. There’s the woman, clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and with a garland of twelve stars adorning her head. She’s pregnant, in labour pains and about to give birth. Standing before her, ready to...

It’s a parents’ worst nightmare. Your teenage daughter comes home and says she’s a boy in a girl’s body. She gives a boy’s name that she wants to be called by in future and expects that you will refer to her using he/him pronouns instead of she/her. She requests...

In the preamble to the theme of a New Year’s Eve sermon held in the FRC Kelmscott, Rev A Souman referred to Byron and Keira Hordyk who’d been in the news again recently. I say ‘again’ because a couple of years ago, when they sought to foster a child...

“… scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” For this they wilfully forget: that by the word...

“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel” (Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23). (This article is largely based on a ‘Christmas sermon’ on Matthew 1:22,23 by Rev R Bredenhof.) There’s such wonderful comfort in knowing that God is with us. For there's nothing worse...

Recently in America there was a hearing for the nomination of Chief Justice-designate Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. During such a hearing 22 delegates of the Senate are allowed to put the Chief Justice-designate to the test. The Republican senator Marsha Blackburn asked the following question: “Can...

At a recent school association meeting someone said that the School Board should focus less on the covenant and instead stress more that the school belongs to the parents. That might sound okay, since parents are the ones who make the vows at baptism; they promise to instruct their...