It was Sunday morning, and the members of Laodicea Reformed Church found their way to the pews. Eyelids were heavy and rested themselves, and many people were unable to subdue their yawns. Some, having consumed a few too many drinks the night before, quietly lamented the piercing headaches to which they had awakened. After […]
As a prospective teacher, my thoughts extend far beyond things like how I might arrange my classroom or how I might balance friendship and authority in the classroom. While these are some factors that are crucial to bring into consideration, an even greater concern of mine is the possibility of my own students becoming prey […]
The Christian church has been fighting for nearly two thousand years: battling heresy, writing canons, forming creeds. What more could the devil throw at us? It may not seem like it here in the United States of America, but we are under a severe attack, an attack crafted ever so slyly by our adversary the […]
Thank you, Bob. Several times this evening I have heard comments that rather worried me. Someone told me that the first speaker said he was thankful to be the first so that no one would steal his thunder. That is alright for the first and maybe the second and the third speaker, but for the […]
In name and confession, we of the Protestant Reformed Church are very Christian. Our confessions are wholly Reformed and as a denomination we subscribe to beautiful declarations of faith. Even our name, Protestant Reformed, is antithetical. But as a young member of our church, I see the illness in it. What we say we believe […]
What is Dead Orthodoxy? What are the historical conditions that give rise to the phenomenon that we call dead orthodoxy. Dead orthodoxy rises in a church that has been engaged in a fierce struggle for the truth after she has been forced to make a sharp distinction between truth and error. From one point of […]
I have a group of questions from a reader that I herewith answer in the order in which I received them. The first question reads: “Is there such a thing as dead orthodoxy?” Answer: First the term “orthodoxy”. The word is from the Greek and means, “right opinion or doctrine.” I take it then, […]
There still exists in our circles a calamitous underestimation of the gravity of the problem with which our churches are now contending as regards the confessional standards upon which our churches are grounded and in which lies the future of the true church of Christ upon this earth. Just now, without a doubt, our churches […]