Be Sober
“Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to...
80 years liberation from a self-proclaimed saviour and from Nazi tyranny
The war with Germany officially ended 8 May 1945, 80 years ago (the war with Japan would continue a little longer). This cataclysmic war...
The Papacy and the Death of Pope Francis
According to an editorial in The West Australian newspaper 22/4, Pope Francis was “a reformer”. We, reformed people, have always understood the term ‘reformer’...
Hearing is more than, and comes before, seeing.
“But their eyes were restrained, so that they did not know Him.” Luke 24:16.
Consider this: A mother has a wonderful gift to give to...
Harmony and Variety in Reformed Confessions
The International Conference of Reformed Churches (ICRC) was constituted in 1982 and was the brainchild of the Free Reformed Churches of Australia (FRCA). The...
Heavenly citizenship
“For our citizenship is in heaven” (Phil. 3:20)
Paul says to the Philippian Christians: "For our citizenship is in heaven”. Commentators agree that accent should...
The other 16 hours
Before the schools opened their doors to commence the 2025 school year, John Calvin School teachers and teachers’ aides gathered to hear Rev. C....
The patient haste of our Lord – 2025
“But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as...
Anti-Semitism and Christians
Anti-Semitism, defined as “hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people”, has reared its ugly head in Australia through graffiti on Jews’ cars and buildings,...
Some Roman Catholic teachings in brief
A few days ago, I stopped to chat to an elderly man who lives a few doors along from me. He told me that...
The Reformation, the Mass and Unity
The Great Reformation of the 16th Century, which we tend to commemorate each 31st October in thankfulness to the Lord, involved reformers making a...
Abram’s entry into Canaan
"Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, as far as the terebinth tree of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in...
Apostolic curse-prose
I could wish that those who trouble you would even cut themselves off! (Galatians 5:12)
(What follows is an approximate translation of a meditation of...
Church unity and the truth
Recently I received an article from G M Boogert, member of the DGK in The Netherlands, titled “Church pluralism and blindness to first sin....
A school skit about the Church Liberation of 1944
The following is a skit between an imaginary primary school boy and his 98-year-old grandmother. I publish it here for the sake of the...