“Sacrificed on the Cross” by T L Bruinius
Recently, at the end of 2014, an interesting book arrived on the market about the significance of Jesus’ crucifixion. Its title is CRUCIAL, the...
Choose or Lose (1) by D J Bolt
At the end of last season (June 2014) we asked a number of pressing and related questions which in our opinion need to be...
Religionless Christianity
This title may, at first, seem like a contradiction in terms to many. Generally Christianity is considered to be one of the large world...
Three RCN ministers abroad
According to Nederlands Dagblad (6th Feb 2015) Rev G Pruijssen is the third minister of the Reformed Churches of the Netherlands (RCN or GKv)...
Bible Study
Bible Study We are about to begin another year of Bible study activity. Depending on our age, this includes studying the Bible at school, catechism...
Christmas – Star to Scripture to the Word-become-flesh
The superficiality of Christmas is all around – in the Christmas shopping, the giving of gifts to one another, the focus on Santa, the...
Prof. J Douma leaves GKv
Professor Dr J Douma has left the Reformed Churches (liberated).
That was the news headline on 15 November 2014. It was also unexpected news, because...
“About Entry and Sola Scriptura: reply to a rebuttal” by A Capellen
After a long wait it has finally happened. At the request of Deputies for Relations with Foreign Churches and of the Canadian Subcommittee for...
Is Douma Overreacting?
Chairman of the latest RCN synod, Rev P Voorberg, says he laments Douma’s departure from the RCN, finding it ‘unnecessary’. He doesn’t consider attempts to...
Dr J Douma leaves the Reformed Churches of the Netherlands (Liberated)
According to Nederlands Dagblad (ND) 15-11-2014, emeritus professor Dr Jochem Douma (82) has left the Reformed Churches of the Netherlands (RCN). He made this...
“Women in GKv Pulpits” by D J Bolt
Women in GKv pulpits (instalment 13) 18-10-14There is a well-known joke about a church minister who receives a call to another congregation. Someone asks the minister’s...
Dutch politics: reducing the confession to gain numbers
According to Nederlands Dagblad (ND) 23-9-2014 there are moves afoot in the ChristianUnion to adopt a new foundation. A discussion paper has been distributed...
“Schilder’s Struggle for the Unity of the Church” by Rudolf van Reest
This book provides the most comprehensive coverage of the events leading up to and including the Liberation I know of in the English language....
Seventy years ago – the Church Liberation of 11 August 1944
We praise the Lord for the Liberation of 1944. Thereby He continued, on this historic occasion seventy years ago, His church gathering work in...
On the Unity and Disunity of Churches
What follows is a paper Dr W G deVries presented in the Free Reformed Church building in Armadale, 5 February 2002, on behalf of the...