
The Future of Israel
Address given at 2003 Youth Day in Rock Valley, Iowa Much of the news in the papers is about the Middle East and the conflict among the nations there. Many Arabs consider the state of Israel as the cause of all these troubles. There is increasing anti- Semitism, ...

Confession of Faith: Article XXVI
This impressive article speaks of the glory of the exalted Mediator. It is about Christ’s intercession. It begins with the words, “We believe that we have no access unto God.” This becomes reality in the life of a sinner who has learned to know God and himself, and who has learned to know that fr ...

Belgic Confession of Faith: Article XVIII
The Incarnation of Jesus Christ Our confession speaks here of the fulfillment of the promise which the Lord had given unto the fathers. He came already to Adam and Eve with the promise of the seed of the woman. He spoke to Abram that in him all t ...

Confession of Faith — Article XIX
Article XIX of our Confession of Faith speaks about the mystery of “the union and distinction of the two natures in the person of Christ.” One of the old theologians has called this mystery of two natures in one person the greatest mystery which we find revealed in the Word of God. In this articl ...

Confession of Faith: Article XX
This article speaks to us of the atoning work of Christ. It was the substitutionary suffering and death of the Mediator “for us,” as the article says. This is explained under the heading, “That God hath manifested His justice and mercy in Christ.”We have become miserable and fallen creatur ...

Christ Glorified
This is a proclamation of the work of the Spirit. The Lord Jesus spoke these words before His departure. First He said to His disciples in verse 12 that He had many things to say unto them, but they were yet unable to bear them. However, the Lord Jesus would send another Comforter, His Representa ...

Passion: “I Am He”
Rev. C. Vogelaar, Covell Avenue, Grand. Rapids, MI During the Passion months, we may hear the gospel of the bitter suffering of the Lord Jesus Christ. Truly, “He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief!’ ...

Confession of Faith: Article XXIX
— continued —The pure preaching, according to Smytegelt, one of our fathers and a minister for many years in Middelburg in the seventeenth century, has four marks. Some of them will sound very familiar to you, so I do not pretend to give many new thoughts, but will repeat those marks for y ...

Belgic Confession of Faith
Ariticle 15 This is a very striking article. It tells us about the reality of our state by nature in which we are all conceived and born. This article is very much against human pride. It speaks of the corruption which already cleaves to little infants and is sprea ...

Dr. H. F. Kohlbrugge The Language of Canaan (6)
The conversation between Straight-Forward and Ask-Freely has described something of the life of a true pilgrim on his way through the desert to the Promised Land. We heard about the marriage with the first husband, “Do-This.” In this husband Kohlbrugge describes the relationship between the awake ...