The 46th annual Protestant Reformed Young People’s Convention sponsored by our South Holland church in Illinois was one with many good and lasting memories. It’s always hard to say good-bye to friends, new and old, who live thousands of miles away, but when I think back upon the good times we had and the things […]

I’m very pleased that I have the opportunity to speak with you at this 1986 convention. I like conventions. I think they are one of the greatest opportunities that our young people can take advantage of. I’ve always said that if one young man and young girl of the same faith meet at a convention […]

When asked to write about whether or not I thought it was a good idea for the 1986 Convention to have separate activities for the older young people, I wasn’t so sure I was the person to ask. Yes, I agreed to go to the Convention, but, to be honest with you, I didn’t have […]

The topic of friendship was introduced by Rev. Van Overloop in the 3rd discussion group of the 1986 Convention. He used David and Jonathan as examples of an ideal relationship. In I Sam. 20:16ff we read of the covenant of friendship that was established between them, and later in the same chapter, verses 41 & […]

OUR NEED FOR COMFORT Tonight we will speak about comfort. You may ask, “Why speak about comfort at a Young People’s Convention?’’ When we think of those who need to be comforted we usually think of old people who are feeble, sickly, suffering pain and perhaps facing death. We think of families who have lost […]

To be Reformed means that we have to live our faith in truth and godliness. A person can not have the comfort of the Gospel unless he has the truth. What is Reformed faith? The Reformed faith is expressed in our Reformed creeds which are the three forms of unity, The Heidelberg Catechism, The Belgic […]

Knowing that you were about to spend a week with hundreds of people you did not even know, might have discouraged you from coming to this year’s Protestant Reformed Young People’s Convention. But that did not discourage me. I was coming from the mission in Pennsylvania (which has only two people in its “Young People’s […]

Let me express my joy to you about two realities this evening. Of course, there are many things about which I could be happy in regard to our convention. We have a large audience. Besides the audience is not composed of old people who have lived their lives, but of young people who have yet […]