Note: This article is a modified version of a graduation address delivered for Hope PRCS in Walker, MI, in June 2021. The eighth grade class text was Isaiah 43:2, and the class theme “Preserved by Jehovah.” “When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow […]

I trust that you young people who love the Protestant Reformed churches love the heritage that God has given to you in the doctrine of the covenant.  If we love the Protestant Reformed churches but do not know, love, confess, and defend the biblical doctrine of the covenant that our fathers have taught us, then […]

Some General Fish Facts from the Bible: Last time we looked at boats in the Bible; let’s go beneath the boat this time and look at fish. Can you name some different kinds of fish? I will: salmon, walleye, garibaldi, and bluegill.  The Bible names none.  The Bible names many different kinds of birds (ie., […]

I’d like to use this rubric for a time in exploration and explanation of interesting things – especially tangible objects – that appear in the Bible and often in the historical narrative passages.  Typically in our preaching, teaching and studying of the scriptures in which we are searching for the spiritual, gospel truth of the […]

  Note: The theme of the Young Adults Retreat, held March 16, 2016 in Loveland, CO, was “Our Lives of Joy.”  The theme text was Psalm 118:24. The content of this speech, now adapted for the reader, is taken largely from Psalm 118:22–24, “The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of […]

The Battle We Fight Because the whole of the new dispensation constitutes the “last days,” there was a battle for the Christians to whom Paul wrote in Thessalonica, and there is today, and there will be until the end a battle for the young people of the church.  In these latter days, the days grow […]

Throughout my grade school, high school and college years, the word, “Every young man should consider the ministry,” or some variation thereof, penetrated my heart as the sower’s seed the hard path.  That word never received even a momentary or passing consideration.  I never considered why the ministry was not for me because I never […]

For those of us who live in the United States of America, our president is Barack Obama, the forty-fourth president of the United States.  To say our president is a polarizing figure is an understatement.  People have very strong opinions about their president.  Significantly, therefore, children and young people will have very strong opinions about […]

You are being watched.  Remember that. With surveillance cameras nearly omnipresent, including those coursing through the heavens, you are being watched by the government and others.  However, to such watching I do not refer. By the ungodly world you are being watched.  For, “a city that is set on a hill cannot be hid” (Matt. […]

What is true of the life of every young adult, and every child of God of any age for that matter, is that we are all busy, very busy. There are seemingly more things to do than time to do them. Another school year looms before us and promises to demand our time. Strikingly, what […]