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Watching Daily At My Gates

January 10 Read Ezekiel 43 After showing to Ezekiel the expanse of the new temple that was symbolic of Christ’s church, the angel now shows Ezekiel the worship that must be performed there. The church of the old dispensation had to worship through the priests and with only the Shekinah cloud. The church of the […]

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The World

Dear Schuyler: In 1 John 2:15 we read: “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” Who/what is the world? If I live the antithesis, does the world become bigger to me? If we may not […]

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The Lord Makes Good Wine

Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed. Jeremiah 48:11   The word of God has a fair amount to say […]

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The Covenant Request of the Honorable Jabez

“And Jabez was more honorable than his brethren:  and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow. “And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep […]

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Federation Board Update

Greetings from the Federation Board!  It is our duty to report to you, young people of the PRC, regarding who we are and what we do.   Federation Board: Who Are We? The Federation Board is a 10-member group that works for the Protestant Reformed Young People’s Societies.  The president, Brian Feenstra, leads the monthly […]

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Engineering Program Management

What exactly is engineering?  That was a question I had asked myself during my junior and senior years of high school.  I generally understood engineering to be designing products, and I knew that engineering required a solid grasp of mathematics as well as science.  Those areas seemed to align with my general interests and academic […]

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Editor’s Notes

Some months ago Prof. David Engelsma preached a sermon in a number of the Grand Rapids area congregations on two verses buried in the genealogies in 1 Chronicles. This obscure passage formed the basis of an eminently practical sermon for all the hearers, but particularly for the covenant young people. Beacon Lights requested that he […]

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Called to the Ministry

The task set to me is to explain briefly something of my life and call to the ministry for the purpose of the recognition of the glory of God who calls and sends, and for the benefit of young men whom the Lord may be calling to the ministry. I grew up in Loveland Protestant […]

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