The Burning of the Wooden Shoes 1
The attempt by churches to make themselves more acceptable to the world and to attract more members has led to a decline in those...
Your Calling with respect to the School with the Bible (4)
Finally, we hold on to the School with the Bible because we confess God the Holy Spirit and our sanctification. We persist with it,...
Your Calling with respect to the School with the Bible (3)
Our attitude toward the School with the Bible is also determined by the second Article of our confession: We believe in God the Son...
Your Calling with respect to the School with the Bible (2)
In this second instalment, Prof B Holwerda explains that we have the School with the Bible because we believe in God the Father and...
Your Calling with respect to the School with the Bible (1)
What follows is an address by the late Prof B Holwerda to a school association meeting in 1941. Having lost none of its...
Praying for Christian school teachers
This article by Jack Huizenga of the Canadian Reformed Teachers' College was published in Clarion, April 6 2018, and is republished here with the...
News Items – RCN and China
Some brief news items on events in the GKv (RCN) and in China:Mary on Palm SundayAndré van Aarle, a Roman Catholic deacon, will be...
A Rugby Player’s Bold Witness
I know little about sport and even less about rugby, but a rugby player named Israel Folau has featured prominently in the Australian secular...
Is Xi the new Lord and Saviour of China?
The oppression of Christians in China takes many forms. Now poor Christian villagers are urged to “replace religious artefacts in their homes with posters...
The Good Fight!
Whoever follows the news a little, knows that the war in Syria is developing into a tangle of warring factions. Syrians, Russians, Iranians, Turks,...
He who is unjust …
He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous, let him...
The Gospel of Easter – Christ lives… in me!
Easter - the celebration of Jesus’ resurrection from the dead. If Jesus was just an ordinary man, and if we could accept the miracle...
“You do not answer”
Can you imagine anything worse than crying out to God in distress, in anxiety and fear, and receiving no answer? There is nothing a...
#Metoo?
Sexual abuse of any kind is abhorrent. God hates it and Christians ought to hate it just as much. It is a sin in...
Are We Following the Decline in the RCN (3)
The decline in the RCN (see previous two instalments) leads to the question: What about the Canadian Reformed Churches (CanRC)? Are we being drawn...