Note to the reader: Before reading what follows, please read the Form Of Excommunication found in the hack of The Psalter. As stated in the Form Of Excommunication, excommunication is the “last remedy” for those under discipline who show no “true repentance.” Excommunication is the final step that the Church takes when the biblical method […]
Many churches today are introducing into their worship services all sorts of elements which are foreign to the Scriptures. In this paper we will see what proper worship is, as well as what the elements of worship ought to be. We will then look at contemporary trends of worship and compare them to proper worship, […]
These are Jesus words to the Pharisees in Matthew 9:12, 13: “They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. But go and learn what that means. I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” (Parallel texts are Mark […]
Charles van Zevenaar stared in front of him. Next to him stood his daughter, Christine. In front of them stood the castle Vinkenstein, reflecting in the water of the moat. In the grass at their feet waddled a couple of chattering ducks. The day before they had come home from a long journey overseas, where […]
A young man ’round the age of sweet sixteen Is the strangest beast you ever have seen. For although much diminished by age’s lack, He has far more brains than a miser’s sack. He knows so much more than his pastor and others— Whether mum, dad, grand-folks, sister or brothers. ‘The Church is a place […]
A tiny seed is launched through the air and tumbles to earth where it bounces a few times and falls into a crack in the dry ground. There it nestles in among some particles of dirt where even the sharp eye of a hungry bird can not distinguish it from the dirt. The days go […]
A Psalter-Psalm Devotional of Praise to Our Sovereign Covenant God. June 1-9 Devotionals from Psalter #157 “A Cry for Help” June 1 Read Psalm 59, noting verses 1 and 2; Read and sing Psalter 157:1 This psalm and song versify David’s thoughts when Saul sent men to watch his house to kill him. Notice […]
Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.” Psalm 56:1. We as God’s people are hated by the wicked world. They use the evils and sinful distractions of this world to tempt us into sinning with them. The wicked despise to see God’s children striving to […]
Question I know it has been long debated as to whether those who take their own lives go to hell or not. I could understand that if the person was an unbeliever his/her entire life, but what if the person was at one time or another experiencing a strong faith in God? Answer I will […]
The text for our convention this year is Ephesians 5:8, “For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of the light.” Here we are taught that naturally we are darkness. We are lost in the darkness of sin and death. We are under the dominion of the […]