We as young people in the Church in the year 2017 of our Lord have many temptations to flee and fight against. One major temptation is living a riotous lifestyle. As we look at the world today we see rampant riotousness, especially in the younger generations. The world loves pleasure and will do whatever it […]
Lying on my bunk in Allegan County Jail, I think back to the night of February 6, 2009, a night which has forever changed my life. It was getting late. I finished up my beer, left the party, and started my drive home. That was the last thing I could clearly remember when I regained […]
Daniel Miersma, a 24 year old member of Hope Protestant Reformed Church in Redlands, was a busy student studying mechanical engineering with many exciting opportunities available for him, when God, in his inscrutable wisdom suddenly and very violently with heart wrenching anguish of soul yanked him from that life, and brought him (and brings us) […]
Who are we known as? While taking classes at Michigan State, I got to know a young man my age. I can remember vividly talking with him about church before our class one night. The memory is ingrained in my head. I told him I attended a Protestant Reformed church, and what was the first […]
“And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; But be filled with the Spirit.” Ephesians 5:18. Drunkenness is sin. This is not only my idea; God says so. Not only that, but it leads to more sin; in drunkenness is “excess.” As we noted in our last article, this means that one who is […]
Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? Who hath babbling? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.… Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that […]
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. Proverbs 20:1 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: …drunkenness… Of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit […]
Drunkenness is a sin against which the people of God are warned. This is a sin which is increasingly prevalent in our day. It is a sin into which both young and old fall. But it is the godly young people of the church who must especially be warned against drunkenness, for there are many […]
Young Christians, you are in a tumultuous stage of your life. You are growing up, maturing, and taking on greater responsibilities. In this time of your life it is appropriate to pay attention to some of the proverbs in the Bible that speak to your situation. As you become older it becomes clear that your […]
This country in which we live has many problems facing it. And many of these problems are not simple, but rather, very complex. It was not too long ago that I came across an article which stated that “there is no clearer gauge of a society’s frustration than the extent to which it throws simplistic […]