FRCA’s 2015 Synod decision on the RCNZ
Synod Baldivis 2015 of the Free Reformed Churches of Australia (FRCA) decided to offer a sister church relationship to the Reformed Churches of New...
Sola Scriptura (4) by Rev R M Retief
The Bible is God’s WordThere are still many theologians who will acknowledge, at least in a first encounter, that the Bible is God’s Word. ...
The President Killed My Son (or How Spanking Saved Him) by Rev Ken Wieske
Under Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff children now have a “right to be educated without the use of corporal punishment.” That means no spanking. Our...
Sola Scriptura 3
Hermeneutics and epistemologyThere is such a thing as Reformed epistemology (study of knowledge). We believe that God, who is the truth, has revealed the...
Observations on FRCA Synod Baldivis in Coming to a Decision on the RCN
In their report to Synod Baldivis 2015, Deputies for Sister Relations submitted two alternative recommendations in relation to the Reformed Churches of the Netherlands...
“In Loco Parentis – Covenantal Schools in Action” by Russel Dijkstra
Parents who send their children to schools providing reformed education have, over the decades, understood that teachers at these schools operate “in loco parentis”...
“Covenantal Education” by Rev Clarence Stam
What follows is a speech Rev Clarence Stam held on Professional Development Day to Canadian Reformed principals in Burlington, Canada, 26th January 1979. It...
Sola Scriptura (2) by Rev M Retief
Sola Scriptura
Scripture is the only source and norm for Reformed theology
The whole concept of theology has undergone a metamorphosis in our day, also in...
“Homosexual relations and the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated)” by Rev Wes Bredenhof
I find it difficult to write the following without sounding alarmist. It is so alarming that it’s challenging to say anything about it as...
“When You Don’t Follow Through…” by Rev Wes Bredenhof
There once was a Reformed church federation in the Netherlands. This federation had a long and storied history. Its roots were not only in...
Choose or Lose 4 by D J Bolt & T Bolt (Slager)
Br D J Bolt is the editor of the website www.eeninwaarheid.info which for the last decade has been highlighting and warning about deviations from...
Prof J Douma on Burger’s Criticism in “Cruciaal” (translated from jochemdouma.nl)
Burger’s criticismOne would expect that the article of the liberated Reformed theologian Burger defends the doctrine of atonement – the doctrine which states that Jesus...
Sola Scriptura (1) by Rev M Retief
Without Holy Scripture we have no source of revelation or knowledge by which we are able to rightly know God. Without the Bible we...
‘The Revised Church Order – Urgent Letter to Consistories’ by DJ Bolt
In 1944 the Lord liberated His people from synodical hierarchy. Now, it appears, the Reformed Churches of the Netherlands (RCN) have reintroduced synodical hierarchy...
“Reconciliation through Satisfaction” by N van Dijk
This article provides further information about recent changes in thinking by some professors within the RCN about Christ’s work of atonement. We’ve always learnt...