A few days ago, around 5:30pm, I stopped at a gas station with one of my sons to buy a couple of items. We walked into the gas station convenience store, found our items and got in line to pay. The one young lady at the cash register was busy helping a middle-aged woman. Behind her in line was a middle-aged man who had obviously worked hard all day, as was apparent by his dirty uniform and tired appearance. Behind him...
We are excited to announce another writer that is joining the existing pool of writers for the RFPA blog. Aaron Cleveland is a member of Hope Protestant Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In his writing for the blog Aaron will bring a perspective from the pew. This is his first blog post. ______________________ "Churches in the People's Republic of Massachusetts have grave concerns about a new anti-discrimination law that could force congregations to accommodate the transgender community—under the threat of...
Today is the day. After months of political back-and-forth, of campaign ad bombardments, of incessant chatter on television and social media, Election Day 2016 has finally arrived. Either late today or early tomorrow we should know who will be the 45th President of the United States. The day is significant for us. It certainly interests us as citizens of this country. But more importantly, it interests us as citizens of the better country, that is, an heavenly. Over the last eight...
In our last blog post on this topic, we examined the Qur’an’s denial of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ: That they said (in boast). ‘We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah’—but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not—Nay, Allah raised him...
October 31 has come and gone for another year. For some that date will always be associated with Halloween. It calls to mind candy and costumes and cavorting around town. It means mobs of little football players and Disney princesses knocking on doors and squeaking, “Trick or treat.” For others that date is known as Reformation Day. It has less to do with chocolate as it does with the church, less to do with bonbons as it does with the Bible....
Corrupting the Word of God by Herman Hanko & Mark H. Hoeksema Does the eternal, unchangeable, all-powerful, and sovereign God really have a temporal, changeable and weak desire to save those whom he has unconditionally reprobated (Rom. 9:22), for whom the Son did not die (John 12:31) and whom the Holy Spirit will not regenerate, sanctify or glorify (John 3:8)? Pelagianism, semi-Pelagianism, Roman Catholicism, Lutheranism, Anabaptism, Arminianism, Amyraldism, and Marrowism say yes to the well-meant offer of the gospel. The biblical, Augustinian,...
The Reformed Free Publishing Association is hosting an online inventory reduction sale now through the end of the year. This is your opportunity to get distinctive Reformed literature at a discounted price just in time for the holidays. Do the young people on your Christmas list have all these titles? Help us clean out some of our excess inventory today! Book Club members save even more! Log into your online account before you start making your order. 30% OFF!...
While the autumn temperatures continue to drop, it seems as if the number of visits to the doctor climbs. Welcome to the season of runny noses, spiked fevers, and flu bugs. Just yesterday my wife had our twin boys into the office for ear infections. These visits to the physician made me think about the diagnosis that the Great Physician gives when he evaluates us. Especially when he looks into our hearts and sees the pride that dwells there. The diagnosis...
From Crete PRC (Illinois) comes this notice of a special public lecture to be held this week Friday, October 28, 2016. The doctrine of common grace developed by Abraham Kuyper has had radical and far reaching effects in the Reformed and Presbyterian denominations that have embraced it. Crete PRC is hosting a lecture this week Friday, October 28, at 7:30 pm entitled “The Tipping Point: Common Grace, Worldliness, and the Growing Apostasy in the Church.” The speaker will be Prof. R. Cammenga, professor of Dogmatics...
FREE Public Lecture by Rev. Brian Huizinga LIVE STREAM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fizX--cnkNA TIME: Friday, October 28 at 7:30pm - 9:30 pm in PDT PLACE: Hope Protestant Reformed Church 1307 E Brockton Ave, Redlands CA 92374Who is God? Who is the God of the Bible and the Reformed faith? Is not God, God?The irreverent worship, immoral lives, and false doctrines tolerated even within Reformed churches today put God at the footstool and man on the throne. God...
Recently, an atheist skeptic in the local newspaper issued a challenge: produce from the four gospels a "coherent narrative or chronology of events for Easter Sunday." My response, which will have to be drastically reduced for publication in the local press, is as follows. First, Jesus rose from the dead (no one witnessed the actual event, because it happened inside the tomb), which event was accompanied by an earthquake, the descent of the angel, the rolling away of the stone, and the...
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2016 RFPA Annual Meeting "Lord Grant Boldness: The RFPA's Witness in the Sexual Revolution" Rev. Joshua Engelsma Date given: 09-29-2016 Location: Providence Protestant Reformed Church (Hudsonville, MI) NOTE: At 57:12 the audio recording cuts off and goes straight into the secretary's report by Josh Hoekstra. The beginning of the secretary's report starts out like this: The Truth Never Begs: The Necessary Voice of the Reformed Free Publishing Association. In 1953 Herman Hoeksema penned an editorial titled "Why We Should Read the Standard Bearer." He...
“But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness” (I Corinthians 1:23). The message of the gospel—Christ crucified—was a stumbling block to the Jews because they could not accept a crucified Messiah. It is a stumbling block to Muslims for similar reasons. Many Muslims believe that Jesus (Isa) did not die. Instead, He was honored and taken directly into heaven. Therefore, Muslims, in general, deny the crucifixion and death, the burial, and the resurrection...
