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,...
Dutch Decision on Female Ordination of Elder Weighed and Found Wanting (1)
The grounds which Synod Meppel used to justify their decision to allow churches to ordain women to all ecclesiastical offices were given on July...
Temples of the Holy Spirit
The 7th commandment teaches us that one of the most beautiful things given by God – the bedroom embrace between husband and wife –...
Luther and Schools
Luther appealed for schooling for all children – boys and girls. How modern for his time! He sought this because he was convinced that...
Saved by the Atom Bomb
Tomorrow, 6th August, 72 years ago, on a clear sunny day, three US B29 bombers approached the Japanese industrial city Hiroshima. One flew high...
Luther and bringing up children
The purpose of bringing up childrenThe central purpose of nurturing and educating children is that they serve God. And to serve God is to...
Not Equality, but Respect for Office Bearers
We live at a time when there is constant emphasis on equality – particularly by the ideologues, such as the gender brigade: there must...