The life of the child of God is a life of obedience to God. Not an external obedience, but an obedience that proceeds from the heart and affects the thoughts, words, and actions. This obedience, a result of the work of God’s grace in our hearts, is part of the life of thankfulness which we […]
We as Protestant Reformed young people have a blessed heritage. Will we sell our birthright as Esau for a mess of Pottage? Ask yourself how much your birthright as a child of God and inheritance as an heir of the promise mean to you. Are you willing to content for the faith once delivered to […]
Jonathan Rabone was a lonely, poor man, in a former farmhouse, at the outskirts of the village. It was cold that Saturday afternoon and the first snow of the season came whirling down from the dark winter sky. He had cut some more wood from a dead pine tree, behind the stable. In a corner […]
Angels through the scriptures tell the heavenly plan, Bring the messages of God down to earthy man. Angel with a message of judgment or of woe; Angel with a message of victory o’er the foe. Angels were sent to bar Edens door; A grim reminder that perfection was no more. When Hagar fled to […]
There in his chair the old saint sat His body weak, his face forlorn. The mind that once was bright, alert Was now so dull, its memory torn. His days of Spring and Summer gone; The Fall of life—it too had flown. And deep in Winter’s drab he sat With sightless eyes and soul’s […]
Me? A little child? Having read the title, perhaps you may conclude already that this article does not apply since you’re are not a little child anymore. Perhaps you wonder if the author is holding the young people in low esteem by calling them “little children.” Before we in haste turn the page, we must […]
What do you say to your teenagers about those difficult, growing years? There is so much information we can share with our teenagers from the experiences we had while growing up. But, we must seek God’s guidance in how we share these experiences with them. I would like to share some of my thoughts about […]
The winds die down, a hard coldness settles in, the naked trees begin to pop and creak, bright moonlight spills across the white sparkling blanket of snow. From inside the warm house the furnace labors to keep out the probing fingers of the bitter cold. Somewhere between the outside and inside windowpane, the cold meets […]
A Psalter-Psalm Devotional of Praise to Our Sovereign Covenant God Devotions on Psalm 79 by Keven Moelker * Calvin’s Commentaries on the Psalms January 1 Read Psalm 79:1-4, Psalter 216:1-4. [The heathen Assyrians inhabit Jerusalem, giving way to a bloody physical slaughter of the saints of God, causing God’s people to pray for the destruction […]
Reprint from the Standard Bearer vol. 29, pp. 277-278. By the addition of only one letter to the word “heave” we get the entirely different “heaven.” What a tremendous difference in meaning there is between those two words! And by adding the three short words, “unto the Lord,” to our theme of the last installment […]