It used to be just four letters: LGBT. Now there are seven. And a symbol. The latest rendering of the ever-growing acronym of the sexual revolution is LGBTQIA+. You are probably familiar with the first part of the acronym, but maybe not the last part. In full, it stands for: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, […]
“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” Proverbs 3:5–6 Imagine opening your eyes to begin a brand new day. It takes a minute for your eyes to adjust to the bright sunlight pouring through the […]
This summer, I went to China to do evangelism on a university campus with a group of college students from the Great Lakes region. For six weeks, I was immersed into a culture entirely different from anything I had ever experienced. The smells, food, cleanliness standards, language, and tremendous number of people reminded me daily […]
Higher education is a mess right now. We are watching colleges and universities strangle themselves as they discover what education looks like when the oxygen of objective truth is pulled out of the room. Because the basis for such action is found in the philosophies and theories of some of their own radical professors, they […]
Education is very important in any Christian’s life, and especially in a Reformed Christian’s life. God reveals himself in many ways through creation and in his word, and we have many Protestant Reformed grade schools and high schools to instruct our children in a Reformed Christian world view. The churches and families go to great […]
From the moment a seventeen-year-old enters the doors of his high school on that last year as a senior, he is faced with the question of what he will do when he graduates. And looming above the head of every twelfth grade student is whether or not he will pursue a higher level of education. […]
Last month we looked at the history of the church as a part of our inheritance and how we must value and study that history. In the next two months we will look at some ways in which we might despise or give up our inheritance and in turn despise the giver of our inheritance. […]
Parents and young people, we are engaged in a fierce battle. I am not talking about the battle against drunkenness, laziness, or the movies and music of this world, or even about the church’s fight against false doctrine, although we war against those things. The enemy we face lurks in the colleges and universities, the […]
Ahhh Summer! Time for a break from all the study. No more early morning treks to school, no more long days at school, no more homework. Catechism and society are finished. Finally, some time for myself; some time to relax, spend hours at the beach or pool to soak up the rays. Now I can […]
Alicia is a member of Grandville Protestant Reformed Church in Grandville, Michigan. She wrote this article as a 2002 Protestant Reformed Scholarship Essay. As my high school career began, I started receiving tons of information about different colleges. I weighed the pros and cons of attending a Christian college as opposed to a public university. […]