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RFPA Update - Summer 2024
IN THIS ISSUE: —Feature article: Coming this summer: Finding My Vocation—New Releases & Coming Soon!—Association...
Following Peace and Holiness
Chastisement must be distinguished from punishment. Punishment is vengeance of the judge upon the wicked aimed at their destruction. Chastisement is the correction of a father to his child, aimed at his improvement. In verses 5–6, the writer to the Hebrews reminds his readers of what they had forgotten: “And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him; for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.” They had forgotten that chastisement is a token of God’s love.
Lifting Up Drooping Hands
Many Christians view chastisement only as painful consequences for specific sins. But chastisement is wider than that. Chastisement is any suffering inflicted by God in love upon his children to teach and to correct them. Even Jesus, God’s perfect Son, was chastised, although not corrected: “he learned obedience by the things which he suffered” (Heb. 5:8). Many of the circumstances of our personal lives, our ecclesiastical lives, and the events in our nation and in the world are sent upon us as chastisement (and upon the wicked world as judgment), not necessarily because we have sinned in some particular way (although we ought not too quickly rule it out), but in order to teach us.
"Biblical Obscurities": Author Mike Velthouse Interviews with Hope RWC
This weekend, spend a few hours with author Mike Velthouse and the Hope RWC podcast! Below, find links to a series of interviews with Mike, in which he discusses four "Biblical Obscurities." Readers may recognize hints of these and other Obscurities articles in his upcoming book, Journey Through the Psalms, a devotional for ages 9–13.
In Memoriam – Herman C. Hanko (1930–2024)
Rarely does God give to his church a ministry of one of his servants like that of Herman C. Hanko. This includes the length of a ministry. Ordained into the gospel ministry in the Protestant Reformed Churches (PRC) in 1955, Hanko was declared emeritus (retired) in 2001. God gave him 46 years of official, active labor in his church.Recent Posts
