November 1 Jeremiah 46:1-12 Israel had to arm herself for war and go and fight against Egypt. This was during a time when they were not very strong., The church today has the same calling. We do not fight physically, but we must arm ourselves with the weapons of faith and fight against spiritual Egypt […]
When we talk about doing “personal evangelism’ what should we really be doing? What precisely is our calling as Christians? That is the question we want to address in this installment. Personal evangelism is not giving little sermons, little talks about Christianity to people. We leave preaching sermons to the official ministry of the church. […]
Question: Only the elect are saved. But does article 3 of the Canons of Dordt, Head II mean that Christ’s death and suffering paid for the sins of all the people in the world? If it does, then why are not all people saved? If it does not, then what was the necessity in Christ […]
We, the children of God have all undergone a radical change. We have been regenerated. And to be regenerated is to be born again, born from above; it is to be resurrected from the dead and to be changed into a new creature. Could any change be more radical than this? Only God, the omnipotent […]
We will be speaking of ‘work’ from a limited perspective this evening, namely, ‘work’ as a job or occupation for which you get a wage and are earning your keep to some degree or other. Now, I am well aware that that is not the only kind of ‘work’ there is. For many here, though […]
Bill and Jane have a boarder in their home. He’s been with them for many years now. In fact, he joined their family soon after they got married. Now I could never understand why a young married couple would want to take a third party into their home, but Jane assured me that he was […]
Narrator: It is a cloudy day in West Michigan. Two college students are preparing to walk through a game preserve and are discussing their classes. Both are students at Calvin College and they are walking through the preserve directly across the East Beltline from the college campus. The name of the first student is Sapientia, […]
You Young People are aware, are you not, that in some of the verses in the Bible God is speaking directly to you, rather than to your parents? There are many verses in Scripture wherein He speaks about you. But there is a verse wherein He clearly is speaking directly to you, rather than to […]
I Samuel 22:2: And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him (David), and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred. It was a strange band of men that gathered about David at […]