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...
“… in order to prevent deviation” by T L Bruinius
How important is the Confession? How important are the Three Forms of Unity? How important is the binding to these Forms?These are critical questions. Questions which in...
Karl Barth, true or false prophet? (2) by Rev S de Marie
Barth on Christ and his atoning suffering
Kamphuis refers to what he has learned from Barth, especially his teaching on the suffering of God and the...
Karl Barth, true or false prophet? (1) by Rev S de Marie
Karl Barth (1886-1968) is widely considered to be the most influential Christian theologian of the 20th century. Reformed writers have, in past decades, pointed...
“I will put enmity…”
Genesis 3:15 has often been called the protoevangel, the first record of the gospel. Or it is called the Mother Promise, the promise that...
“Office-bearers giving leadership in Christ’s Church” by Rev PKA de Boer
The following speech by Rev PKA de Boer was held at an annual office bearers' conference in the Free Reformed Church of Mt Nasura...
Press review – criticism expressed by overseas delegates to RCN’s Synod Ede
Reformatorisch Dagblad, 29th March 2014, reported that representatives of churches abroad gathered at Synod Ede of the Reformed Churches of the Netherlands (RCN, aka...
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...