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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 XXII
We now come to the benefits of faith, which are contained in the Articles XXII to XXVI. Articles XXII and XXIII deal with the free justification of the sinner before God; Article XXIV deals with sanctification; Article XXV with the ceremonial law; and Article XXVI with Christ’s intercession. Thes ...
God’s House
The prophet speaks of the glory of God’s house. It will be a house of prayer for all people. The Lord Himself will bring them to His holy mountain, the place where the temple, God’s house, was built. Their sacrifices would be accepted by the Lord, and they would serve Him in the fear of His Name. ...
Your Questions Answered
Again a question was received, and we will try to give an answer: In Mark 1:8 we read of the “baptism of John” in contrast to “baptism of Jesus.” In Acts 19:2-5 twelve disciples at Ephesus were baptized unto John’s baptism — the baptism of repentance. After hearing Pau ...
Confession of Faith: Article XXII
— continued —Faith consists of three things: a) of knowledge; b) of assent; and c) of trust, or confidence. We see that the whole man is involved in it.When we speak about knowledge, then we think of the mind, o ...
Where Are the Nine?
In this history we read of ten lepers. It is difficult to conceive any condition more miserable than that of men who were afflicted with this leprosy. They were cast out from society and cut off from all communion with their fellow-beings. The destroying power of the disease affected every member ...
Confession of Faith: Article XXVII
We are now to discuss the first article of the last part of our Confession. The Articles XXVII-XXXVII deal with the doctrine of the church, and each of those eleven articles deals with a different aspect. Article XXVII speaks about the essence of the church; Article XXVIII ...
Confession of Faith: Article XXVII The Catholic Christian Church
— continued —The Westminster Catechism says of this church, “The church invisible consists of the whole number of the elect that have been, are, or shall be gathered into one under Christ, the Head thereof; and is the spouse, the body, the fulness of Him who filleth all in all.” Here we re ...
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 ...
Report on the Continuation of the General Synod of the Gereformeerde Gemeenten
Utrecht, the Netherlands January 10-11, 1996 A continuation of the meeting of the General Synod, held in September of 1995, was needed, since many committee reports and the points from the various Particular Synods had not yet been discussed. The ...
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