
Fruitful Death
Verily, verily, I say unto you.” “Verily, verily!” Here Christ would instruct His disciples, but the matter is hard. The mind does not understand it when the heart does not receive it. However, the truth does not change. “Verily, verily, I say unto you.”“Except a corn ...

The Hearer of Prayer
Thou that hearest prayer”—this is the title David gives unto the LORD by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. David knew the LORD as “Thou that hearest prayer” by his own blessed experience. Is this not a blessed knowledge? Is this not a most honorable title? The LORD is so worthy of it ...

Refuge-Taking Faith
In Psalm 48:3 we read, “God is known in her palaces for a refuge.” These palaces were those of Mount Zion, “Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth…on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.” Mount Zion was not so beautiful, of course, in the eyes of the Lord’s ...

A Poor Man’s Thanksgiving
What is more fitting to a poor man than thanksgiving? What is more touching for every beholder to observe? A poor man, who has received a gift, a blessing, a stipend, bathed in tears, humbly acknowledging his benefactor. Here is beauty in the midst of misery. Here the heart of a benefa ...

Naaman’s Little Maid
Rev. H.D. den Hollander, Fort Macleod, AB It is a very special child that is spoken of in these verses. As the school year begins, our teachers will be working with children every day. How precious is a child. The carpenter works with wood, ...

Naaman’s Little Maid
Rev. H.D. den Hollander, Fort Macleod, AB It is a very special child that is spoken of in these verses. As the school year begins, our teachers will be working with children every day. How precious is a child. The carpenter works with wood, ...

Funeral Services of Student G. Bron
After a short period of suffering, Student G.E. Bron (1961-2017) exchanged time for eternity on April 1, 2017. He is mourned by his dear wife and seven children as well as a large extended family. Student Bron served the churches of the Netherlands Reformed Congregations sin ...

Weep Not
Fort Macleod, AB This world is a vale of tears—tears of sorrow, tears of pain, tears of sickness, tears of oppression, tears of disappointments, tears of all kinds of miseries. None know not what it means to weep. Great and small, rich and p ...

The Ungodly Justified
Rev. H.D. den Hollander, Fort Macleod, AB Paul wrote to the Romans about justification. “Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, ...