Hitting Close to Home
By : Reformed Free Publishing Association
Many readers of the RFPA blog live in West Michigan. What follows is a news item from the Grand Rapids area that illustrates the growing anti-Christian spirit of the world in which we live and how believing a basic biblical truth can quickly get one in trouble with the federal government of the United States. Donald and Ellen Vander Boon own West Michigan Beef Company Co., LLC , a meatpacking plant in...
Read More"A New Front"
By : Reformed Free Publishing Association
There is a new front on which the church must stand opposed to the armies of the sexual revolution. The battle is still the same: an unholy war against marriage and the God who instituted it. But there is a new front in that battle. Last year the revolutionaries were marshalled on the issue of homosexuality and same-sex marriages. This year the battle has been waged on the front of transgenderism. But an assault is now being made on another front:...
Read More“Pastoral Guidance or Misguided Advice?”
By : Reformed Free Publishing Association
In the February 2016 issue of The Banner, the official magazine of the Christian Reformed Church (CRC), there is a preview of an extensive report coming to their Synod this summer. The report addresses the issue of so-called “same-sex marriages” in light of the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling (Gayla Postma, “Pastoral Guidance for Churches Regarding Same-Sex Marriage,” pp. 14-15). This report is not a change in the official CRC position on homosexuality. That position, adopted in 1973, states that “same-sex...
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