Denominationalism (3)
Rev Stam, we saw, links denominationalism to the idea of the invisible church made up of all the elect from different types of churches....
Denominationalism (2)
In the previous article we saw that denominationalism originated in America and is the belief that the church of the Lord Jesus Christ consists...
Denominationalism (1)
It’s amazing really: every Sunday we hear and confess the Apostles’ Creed and say in our hearts that we believe in God the Father,...
Everyone Created in God’s Image?
Are all children created in God’s image? Many people who want to serve the LORD say yes. Various books on Christian education use this...
in God’s house
“…it was too painful for me – until I went into the sanctuary of God” (Psalm 73:16b, 17a)
Read Psalm 73 and you can picture...
President Trump’s Declaration on Abortion
Today I want to pass on President Trump’s “Proclamation on National Sanctity of Human Life Day, 2020”. Issued just a few days ago (January...
GKv – kissing sister relations goodbye?
You may be aware that presently there’s a GKv (RCN) synod taking place at Goes in the Netherlands and that, despite the FRCA having...
The unchanging Christ in a changing world
“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever” (Hebrews 13:8).
The changing world
The Lord has ushered in a new year and, as Rev R...
May we ask the Lord to forgive others?
We have a family ‘Whatsap’ and the day after Christmas one family member posted a “thought for the day … Job 1:5”. This text...
The Magi from the East and the Word of God
East and west are relative terms. Hence, when we read that the wise men, those magi, came from the east they came from east...
75 years Liberation
75 years Liberation: back to the firm ground of God’s covenant
The Act of Liberation or Return was read out 75 years ago (11 August...
Mixed Courtship
Ministers of the Word and elders have, over the years, stressed that young church members should not court boys and girls outside their church...
Open the School Doors?
The early migrants who instituted the Free Reformed Churches of Australia (FRCA) and the Canadian Reformed Churches (CanRC) saw the great importance of establishing...
Ongoing Reformation
Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; ...Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD, though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be...
A Power of Delusion
Considered to be one of the most difficult passages in the Bible, 2 Thessalonians 2 deals with the coming of the man of lawlessness....