If in this anniversary year of the Reformation, you confessed justification by faith alone to a Roman Catholic neighbor, or to an advocate of the heresy of the federal vision, and he responded by quoting to you James 2:21 and 25, could you maintain your confession, or would you be silenced? All opponents of the gospel truth of justification by faith alone, from Rome to the federal vision of today, hang their hat on James 2. At the annual meeting of...
Most readers of the RFPA blog are familiar with Prof. David Engelsma. For sixteen years he was editor of the Standard Bearer and he has written numerous books which the RFPA has published, including two which treat the topic of church membership: Bound to Join and A Defense of the Church Institute. Those who read and profited from these two books will be interested in knowing that the Reformed Witness Committee (RWC) of Hope Protestant Reformed Church of Walker, Michigan has...
Prof. Engelsma once again did a radio interview with Chris Arnzen, the national, religious radio host of Iron Sharpens Iron. The broadcast was an interview on a book that Engelsma co-authored and edited, The Sixteenth-Century Reformation of the Church. This interview was of special significance since this year is the five hundredth anniversary of the Reformation.The interview was broadcast live March 30, from 4-6 pm on Chris Arnzen’s website: (http://www.ironsharpensironradio.com). The following is taken from the "About" page on the "Iron Sharpens...
Prof. Engelsma will once again be doing a radio interview with Chris Arnzen, the national, religious radio host of Iron Sharpens Iron. The broadcast will be an interview on a book that Engelsma co-authored and edited, The Sixteenth-Century Reformation of the Church. The interview is TODAY starting at 4 pm and will be broadcast on Arnzen’s website: (http://www.ironsharpensironradio.com). Be sure to tune in later today! The following is taken from the "About" page on the "Iron Sharpens Iron" website. If you’re...
Prof. Engelsma will once again be doing a radio interview with Chris Arnzen, the national, religious radio host of Iron Sharpens Iron. The broadcast will be an interview on a book that Engelsma co-authored and edited, The Sixteenth-Century Reformation of the Church. The interview is scheduled for this week Thursday, March 30, from 4 to 6 pm and will be broadcast on Arnzen’s website: (http://www.ironsharpensironradio.com). Be sure to tune in tomorrow!
AD 2017 marks the five-hundredth anniversary of the Reformation of the church of Jesus Christ. In 1517 the Reformer Martin Luther affixed the ninety-five theses to the door of the church in Wittenberg, Germany, the act by which Jesus Christ began his reformation of his church. Essential to this Reformation was the gospel-truth of justification by faith alone. This book on justification is intended by the Reformed Free Publishing Association and the author to celebrate that glorious work of Christ.But the...
NOW AVAILABLE: C H R I S T I A N I Z I N G T H E W O R L D This book is a critique of Abraham Kuyper’s cultural theory of a common grace of God and of the grandiose mission of this grace, and of those who confess the theory and evidently intend to promote it so that it accomplishes the end Kuyper claimed. The book exposes Kuyper’s biblical basis for his theory and...
Christianizing the World: Reformed Calling or Ecclesiastical Suicide? This book is a critique of Abraham Kuyper’s cultural theory of a common grace of God and of the grandiose mission of this grace, and of those who confess the theory and evidently intend to promote it so that it accomplishes the end Kuyper claimed. The book exposes Kuyper’s biblical basis for his theory and its practical mission. The first and main part of the book is a much-expanded version of the public lecture given...
A couple weeks ago Prof. Engelsma informed the RFPA about the possibility of a live-stream interview with Chris Arnzen. Arnzen is a national, religious radio host. Chris Arnzen had approached Prof. Engelsma, asking him if he would do a series of live radio interviews on various books he has authored. There is a possibility there could be subsequent interviews on six different books authored by Engelsma. Click the icon to listen to the radio interview. Click the icon to listen to...
A couple weeks ago Prof. Engelsma informed the RFPA about the possibility of a live-stream interview with Chris Arnzen. Arnzen is a national, religious radio host. Chris Arnzen had approached Prof. Engelsma, asking him if he would do a series of live radio interviews on various books he has authored. The first broadcast will be an interview on Prof. Engelsma’s book, The Reformed Faith of John Calvin. It is scheduled for tomorrow, Wednesday, March 2, from 4 to 5PM and will...
Coming late January 2016. This book accomplishes several purposes on behalf of the defense and maintenance of the gospel of grace with its accompanying Christian life of separation from the world of the ungodly. First, the book recalls to the members of the Protestant Reformed Churches their doctrinal and historical origins: “Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn” (Isa. 51:1). Their doctrinal origins were the confession of salvation by sovereign grace, embedded in predestination, and insistence on a holy life...
Southwest Protestant Reformed Church invites you to view a recently completed video of Questions and Answers from the 2014 lecture “Kuyper’s Common Grace ‘Christianizing of Culture’—Reformed Calling or Ecclesiastical Suicide?” In this video Prof. David Engelsma answers important questions that were presented by those who attended or viewed the lecture. This video can be found at www.commongraceandculture.com under the Questions & Answers section. DVDs are also available by requesting a copy at christianandculture@gmail.com. ...
This book critique by Professor David J. Engelsma was printed in the Appendix section of his book Federal Vision: Heresy at the Root. Click the PDF link to read/save in PDF format. * Ian A. Hewitson, Trust and Obey: Norman Shepherd & the Justification Controversy at Westminster Theological Seminary (Minneapolis, MN: NextStep Resources, 2011). ___________________________ The full-throated defense of Norman Shepherd and his theology by Ian A. Hewitson, Trust and Obey, appeared too late for me to take it into account in...
