Author Interview: Brian Huizinga on Crowning His Gifts

Author Interview: Brian Huizinga on Crowning His Gifts

The following Q&A with author Brian Huizinga is on the book Crowning His Gifts: Gracious Rewards in the Reformed Tradition (Jenison, MI: Reformed Free Publishing, 2024). This review was originally published in the Grandville Gleaner, the newsletter of Prof. Huizinga's home congregation.
Looking back: Which books have we released this FY?

Looking back: Which books have we released this FY?

As the RFPA nears the end of our fiscal year, we look back on another year of Standard BearerIgnited by the Word, and Reformed books for young and old. Did you miss any of the releases (or upcoming releases) below?
Doctrine

Doctrine

This article was written by Rev. Dale Kuiper in the 12/15/1992 issue of the Standard Bearer. _______________ The...

Coming in 1 month!

Coming in 1 month!

IN ONE MONTH volume two of The Belgic Confession commentary will be printed, completing the two-volume set written by Professor David J. Engelsma.

We provide you with an excerpt from Chapter 17: Justification as Experience.

Justification by faith alone, without works, not only excludes works from God’s justifying act, but also from the believer’s knowledge and certainty of righteousness with God. If this were not the case, “we should always be in doubt, tossed to and fro without any certainty, and our poor consciences would be continually vexed.”

Therefore, to teach that in the end the experience and assurance of righteousness with God are realized by the sinner’s good works, or are somehow dependent upon the good works of the sinner, is the denial of justification by faith alone. In that case, faith would need the help of the sinner’s works to give the blessing of justification. Union with Christ and his work would not be enough.

The Royal Sufferer

The Royal Sufferer

Christ is and was the king…

…whose kingdom is not of this world, and who rejected all the glory that this world offers.
…who refused to allow the Jews to crown him king, though he was the King of the Jews.
…who fought alone, without an army.
…who was arrested by his own people, and mocked by the representatives of the Roman Empire, the great earthly kingdom of that day.
…who was crucified because he was King, and remained King when he died.
…who, being risen and ascended, is the King of kings and Lord of lords.

To this divinely anointed King, this book is witness. Behold your King, and worship him!

Full author interview with Rev. Nathan Langerak

Rev. Nathan Langerak was interviewed on his 2-volume series on 1 Corinthians, Walking in the Way of...