Anger over sin
READ: Joshua 7:1-12
So the LORD said to Joshua: ‘Get up! Why do you lie thus on your face? Israel has sinned, and they have...
The Child with the Two Names
"And you shall call His name Jesus... And you shall give Him the name Immanuel" (Matt. 1:21,23).
The Child, whose birth we commemorate coming Monday...
KLAAS SCHILDER – THE EARLY YEARS
Today 133 years ago a child was born into a poor Christian family who was to be used by God for great things. He...
Response to a minister’s questions
A few months ago, I published an article in Una Sancta (1 July 2023) titled “Blurring the Boundaries”. In it I said that while...
SOLA SCRIPTURA, SOLA FIDE, SOLA GRATIA
October 31 is again Reformation Day. I assume you are all familiar with the history of the Great Reformation, an event that set in...
Being Reformed – What it is not
Concluding a recent series of 12 articles on “Being Reformed”, Rev. S. de Marie writes about what is not being reformed. In the last...
Stay? Or leave? The ‘concerned’ prophet who stayed in the false church.
At every church reformation there are those who share concerns about the way things are going in the church but when the critical decision...
NO NAPPING NOW!
The last number of years have left me with an unsettled feeling. Feelings, I know, do not always accurately reflect reality. That said, allow...
Whose honour has priority: the LORD’s, or man’s?
A glance through Church History reveals a series of crisis situations which the LORD has graciously used to reform His church, to bring about...
Why object to ‘pluriformity of the church’?
Pluriformity of the church is a view of the church that has been promoted particularly by Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920), a gifted theologian who later...
An urgent letter to those who plan to marry outside the church from one who did.
The late Prof. J Geertsema once published the following heartrending letter from a young woman who had married outside the church. She had written...
Do what’s right and don’t look at the consequences
During the World War 2, while Prof. Klaas Schilder was in hiding from the Nazis seeking to arrest him, a synod was in the...
Baptism with the Spirit and with fire
“He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire” (Luke 3:16).
One morning, some years ago, I was sitting in my study when...
Ascension … and the Marks of the Church
It is important that we do not overlook the great significance of the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ. First, the Ascension was important...
Of Snakes and Doves
On 10 May 1940 German troops invaded The Netherlands. Four days later German bombers, in what came to be known as Blitzkrieg (lightning war),...