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Not the sound of fireworks after church service
In the newspapers here in the USA we read much about a new controversy in the business world. In the past the people in the stores greeted their customers with a "Merry Christmas" or perhaps even a "Blessed Christmas". However, in a time in which everyone is so afraid to discriminate other parts ...
Your Questions Answered
A question was received regarding certain texts in the Old Testament: In several places we read the words “own land,” such as in Exodus 18:27, Numbers 10:30, 2 Kings 19:7, etc. Does this have the same meaning in all these texts? In Exodus 18:27 it says, “An ...
War and Peace
Rev. C. Vogelaar, Zwolle, the Netherlands The month of May is a time of commemoration of some special events in the history of our country and of other Western European nations. It was seventy years ago, on May 10, 1940, that the German army ...
Your Questions Answered
We received a question asking us to write a few things about games for the family: “I’m inquiring about games with numbers either on cards or tiles. I figure your answer will be no games whatsoever. Please tell the young people what we can do. Please give instruction what to ...
Confession of Faith: Article XXIV
This article speaks about man’s sanctification and about good works. We have seen previously in Article XXII that there is a justification by, or through, faith in Jesus Christ. In Article XXIII we have seen wherein that justification consists. That faith is no more than a gift. It is a hand, not ...
Your Questions Answered
We received the question: How does a person know for sure that something was from the Lord? Our hearts are so deceitful. We can fool ourselves with our emotions and give ourselves comfort. Life is too serious and short to deceive ourselves. I know we have to see what c ...
In vrijheid gesteld
Met veel blijmoedigheid en vrijmoedigheid mag de apostel spreken tot hen van wie openbaar geworden is, dat ze een brief van Christus zijn.Paulus mocht het middel, een instrument zijn, maar het is de Geest van de levende God Die deze brief schreef, niet in stenen tafel ...
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 ...
Confession of Faith: Article XXXVII (2)
The Lord has warned His church to give heed to the signs of the times. He says to the hypocrites, “When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face ...
Rev. E. van het Loo (5)
My own funeral sermon When the seventy-one-year-old Rev. Van het Loo mounted the pulpit on Sunday morning, November 5, 1905, he could look back upon many years of service in the Lord's vineyard. He had proclaimed God's Word countless times, yet this morning he woul ...
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