Swish-sh. My sled could race down the hill faster than anybody elses! Well, almost anybody’s. I didn’t even feel the wind bite my face as I slid down. What fun it was! The sun shone brightly and made the snow sparkle. It didn’t make it any warmer though. It was cold! “Hey, Philip, come over […]

As you know, Young People, the day you were born you were not able to walk, or even to crawl. In fact, although you were born with legs and feet, you had to be carried, and have food brought unto you. You could cry for that food, and thereby could express your desire for it. […]

I was asked to review the young people’s mass meeting speech given by Rev. Spriensma on February 14, 1993. The topic of Rev. Spriensma’s speech was “Keeping Our Bodies Pure.” The text used was I Cor. 6:18 “Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth […]

Dear Grandchildren: O.K. children, turn off your radio or television set for a few minutes. I want you to put on your thinking caps – those with the built-in ear plugs to shut out outside sounds which might distract you. I want you to join me in thinking of the words pure, purity and purify. […]

To abbreviate, but also to attract attention and depict symbolically, several different kinds of signs have appeared lately that use the picture of a heart instead of the word love. Thus there are signs that read, “I love my country”. These have the first and the last two words spelled out, but instead of the […]

Young people of the 1982 Protestant Reformed Young People’s Convention, we live in a rapidly changing world. It is not difficult for you and me to see that this is especially true with respect to sin. Not that sin has become any worse today than it has in the past. Sin is sin. But it […]