Address of Australian Deputies to Reformed Churches Netherlands Synod Ede March 2014
Esteemed delegates of Synod and honoured guests,
On behalf of the Free Reformed Churches of Australia, we may extend greetings in the Name of our...
RCN Adrift and the Lesson for Us
Twenty years ago, in 1994, the 50th anniversary of the Liberation was celebrated in our Dutch sister churches—the Reformed Churches of the Netherlands (RCN)—as...
A Letter to the Apostle Paul
From time to time one reads in the Christian press attempts to downplay doctrinal differences. Such attempts work to close the mouths and stop...
1500 Conscientious Objectors Write to RCN Synod
An appeal by 1500 concerned church members was declared inadmissible by synod of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (RCN – Dutch sister...
The Church Service – Part 4 (Final)
The Church Service(part four - final)
In previous instalments attention has been given to what a church service is all about and how this is...
“Has sin not been abolished?” by S de Marie
Under the heading ‘Pope has not abolished sin' an article taken from the Church News magazine was published in a number of newspapers earlier this month....
Hermeneutics Conference, Hamilton, January 2014
Why all this sudden interest in hermeneutics? It’s because our Dutch sister churches, the Reformed Churches of the Netherlands (RCN), are reinterpreting Scripture in order...
“Read what it says” by T L Bruinius (about the new hermeneutics)
Read what it says, leave alone what you read! This is the old reformed starting point for how we should read the Bible. It is the...
Man Up – We are to serve
As another year is closing and the time of Christmas is on hand, most people would be preparing for that end of year function,...
Rachel’s Grief
Matthew 2: 17, 18: “Then was fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah: Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted.”The...
Churchism in Kampen – liberty above all things
Prof. A. de Bruijne, in his column in N(ederlands) D(agblad) of November 9, 2013 under the title “Delen in de gescheurde kerk” (Sharing in the torn church), calls on readers...
Press Review
Is the church institute or organism, visible or invisible?
Reformed Perspective of 1 November 2013 placed a couple of articles by Rev W Bredenhof about...
Proposed new Subscription Form in the GKv is less binding
Nederlands Dagblad (ND), recently published an article about a work group of GKv synod deputies appointed to look at revising the Church Order. As...
The Church Service – Part 3
The Church Service
(Part 3)
In the church service the Lord meets with His covenant people. It is a continuation of how the LORD met with...
Solution to a problem?
It is now ten years ago that a number of people throughout the Netherlands liberated themselves from unscriptural teachings in the Gereformeerde Kerken -...