Do Children Who Die Young go to Heaven?
We confess that children who die, including those who die in the womb, go straight to heaven if their parents believe the gospel. Others...
Luther’s beautiful break with the age-old error of the church
Today, 31 October 2017, we remember that exactly 500 years ago Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church door at Wittenberg. Those...
RCN schools and the loss of church identity
There are things happening in the Dutch RCN (GKv) that are clear warnings for church schools, such as our FRCA schools here in Western...
No Partiality
A wealthy, well-dressed dignified man in fine clothes and wearing gold rings comes into church. The sexton respectfully ushers him in and gives him...
Two Communities
“No one likes be made an object of ridicule. No one likes to be hated and attacked. People were made by God to live...
The Justification for Female Ministers in our Sister Churches
Synod Meppel of our Dutch sister churches approved the ordination of women to all ecclesiastical offices. We previously considered its arguments for the ordination...
No Coalition in Denial of Antithesis
In 1946, two years after the church Liberation of 1944, Prof Dr Klaas Schilder published the following meditation (here translated). It has a context....
How the Gold has Lost its Lustre!
The following article is about the present situation in the Reformed Churches of the Netherlands – liberated (RCN or GKv).
How the gold has lost...
God’s agenda and the lawless one
It’s no secret that the western world, with its roots in Christianity, is becoming increasingly secular. The recent moves to accept homosexuality and hence...
Screen Entertainment?
Here in Australia the school holidays have arrived again. How will reformed parents keep their children occupied? Will they keep them busy with good...
SSM and Persecution
Hardly a day goes by without the Australian news media relating something about the current voting taking place about whether to allow same sex...
The Son of God hold us in His hands
There are Christians who say or imply that if only we do this or that we can fix the problems in our lives. But...
Christian Alliances?
Although we are not ‘of the world’ we are nevertheless in it. Many of us work together with those who are not of the...
As Image Bearers of God
We know from Genesis 1 that God created everything perfectly. The last to be created were people—Adam and Eve—as the crown on God’s creation...
Dutch Decision on Female Ordination of Elder Weighed and Found Wanting (2)
MiriamThe second reason Synod Meppel gave for admitting women to the office of elder is: “They could be called thereto by God,...