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....
The coming of the Son of man
Over the years there have been many false prophets making predictions about the end of the world. Some are from “Christian” sects, some are...
The secret of the true Reformation
October 31 is Reformation Day when we remember God’s wonderful reformation of His church in the 16th Century. Thereby the Spirit of God brought...
Is the GKv a false church?
A recent ‘Letter to the Editor’ in Clarion asked why Dr A de Visser, in an earlier edition of Clarion, said he would not...
Book Review: “Into the Valley of Death” by I A Morgan
What intrigued me about the front cover of this 150-page paper-back was not just the photo of a Wellington bomber, nor the caption’s promise...
Same-sex Marriage (3)
Because God’s design for marriage has been widely scorned and dismissed in our society, it was a relatively small step to cave in to...
The Weakening of the Institution of Marriage (2)
Recently same-sex “marriage” was centre stage and became a legal form of cohabitation. This distressing state of affairs did not, however, just drop out...
A BIBLICAL VIEW OF MARRIAGE (1)
Marriage is a gift of God to his creation
The Present Confusion
Today’s society is characterized by much confusion about the identity, place, and role of...