Book Review: Veith, Gene Edward. God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2011. A tired ear bends to yet another wail from the bassinet, the dryer buzzes, the full sink beckons to be emptied, boiling water awaits added ingredients, bedspreads lay wrinkled and forlorn, the phone rings, […]
“Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.” Proverbs 27:18 Proverbs 27:18 reveals the wisdom of God in Jesus Christ with regard to our relationships to our employers. The wisdom of God is infinitely deeper than our own, and this text is evidence […]
A Christian school is not an elite institution where only the best, most successful students are accepted, nor is it a place populated by saints whose lives are untouched by the effects of sin. A Christian school is a place full of sinners, who are perfectly designed by God and covered by the blood of […]
Normally when we think of fruit, we think of apples, oranges, bananas, or grapes. These are things that we eat in our daily lives. They are sweet and usually a very refreshing treat. Fruit doesn’t always mean the refreshing foods that we eat though. Another definition of fruit is the result or reward of work […]
A Christian schoolteacher is called by the Lord to this very special vocation of teaching the covenant children. This individual must have a love for the children of the church and want to help them grow not only academically, but spiritually and mentally as well. This is not an occupation that is a last resort […]
2 Timothy 2:2: And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also. Note: The first article, about preparing for and entering the seminary, can be found in the September issue of Beacon Lights. Questions about the […]
Note: The following is from a speech given for the Young People’s Mass Meeting in December 2019 at Trinity PRC. Young people, your Lord calls each of you to witness to him and to the glad tidings concerning salvation from sin and death by him; and he calls you to do that, not simply […]
2 Timothy 2:2: And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also. Note: In early November 2019, Mr. Jim Regnerus, principal of Trinity Christian High School in Hull, Iowa, asked me to give a chapel speech to […]
Being a Student in the Theological School of the Protestant Reformed Church in the Philippines Jeremiah Pascual Dear Readers of Beacon Lights, As many of you probably have heard by now, the Protestant Reformed Churches in the Philippines have received by the grace of God their own seminary for the training of men […]
We use the term “gift” in many ways today. We may say that a high school student is “gifted” at playing basketball. What we mean to say is that he plays basketball well. Or we may say that a musician is “gifted” at playing his instrument when we mean to say that a person has […]
