During the last of the final year of our ministry in Covenant, in the providence of God, we came into contact with several young people from Singapore. We made the decision to sponsor one of these young people as a foreign exchange student. Johnson See stayed in our home for three months, and we learned […]
I have probably lived in more places during my life time than most people. This has made my life exciting. Most of all, I am thankful to the Lord for His providence and the many things I have learned and experienced in all of these places. I was born in the Netherlands in a small […]
How do we begin to talk to someone about the gospel of Jesus Christ? Where do we find the courage to do this? How do we overcome the fear of being ridiculed when we do this? What do we do when people are immediately “turned off when we begin to talk about Christianity? Let’s try […]
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. […]
Recently in our congregation in Redlands we had a series of three meetings to focus on the above-named subject. News of this somehow came to one of the members of the Beacon Lights staff and he asked me to reproduce the messages used in these meetings for the Beacon Lights. I humbly submit these messages […]
It is inevitable that the people we daily come in contact with will have a great influence on our lives. This is true more than we perhaps even realize or often care to admit. We will pattern our lives sometimes even unconsciously after those we admire, those who are our heroes. We will sometimes dream […]
It is inevitable that we in our Christian life will come into contact with people from churches other than those of our own denomination. We will meet such people at school and at work and in the course of social interaction with the world. How we act towards such people is a very important aspect […]
Protestant Reformed Young People, beloved in our Lord Jesus Christ. Let me begin by expressing to you my appreciation for inviting me to speak to you this evening and to join you in your convention this year. This has been the first opportunity I have ever had to be part of a Protestant Reformed Young […]
“But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Galatians 6:14 On Good Friday, we commemorate again in a special way the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Indeed it is fitting that Christian young people should set aside a day for such special celebration of this great […]