“Worship me!” our God commands. “Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters,” Revelation 14:7. Worship me, says the God of our salvation, “For the Lord is great, and greatly to be […]
Friends. This is a term we hear about a lot today. We hear songs about them, see pictures of them, and there is even a popular sitcom with that as its title. Friends are everywhere! Who comes to mind when you think of friends? Is it the Three Stooges, Charlie Brown and Snoopy, Batman and […]
Question We read in Numbers about Balaam prophesying and in I Samuel about Saul prophesying also. In Matthew 7:22, apparently the non-elect are claiming they performed miracles and prophesying during their lives. It seems that Judas also performed miracles along with the other Apostles. On the other hand, I Corinthians seems to be telling us […]
In Judges 7:25-32, we learn of the next important stage of the history of Gideon as the God appointed deliverer of His people. Immediately, one naturally wonders whether Gideon was ready for his work as deliverer. Would Gideon, as so many did in that time, do what was right in his own eyes, or would […]
What happens when we die, Mom? Where do we really go? Do we climb up a mountain? Or where it always snows? “God takes us.,, “takes us where, Mom? Into a deep, dark cave Or to a lonely desert? Don’t worry, I’ll be brave! Do we go to a forest Where we cannot […]
Wait a minute! There’s something wrong with that title! The Bible declares, “For with God nothing shall be impossible” (Luke 1:37). Who would ever be so arrogant as to claim that “with man, nothing is impossible”? Well, this is the exact statement I heard when I visited NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in November! […]
A Psalter-Psalm Devotional of Praise to Our Sovereign Covenant God March 1 Read Psalm 89:1-7 Psalm 89:1 This Psalm contains many of God’s attributes. The first one is His mercy. God’s mercy is worth singing about. By His mercy He has taken a poor wretched sinner and made Him fit for heaven. Without His mercy […]
O sing ye Hallelujah!! We are again called to praise our God in this versification of Psalm 147. We raise our voices to God in thanksgiving for all that He has done for us. This is good and pleasant. God builds up His church and gathers in His elect people. For this we raise our […]
We as Reformed believers ought to be very discriminating in our selection of music that we sing and allow ourselves to listen to. The devil is very crafty and many a lie has been promoted through the medium of music. We may be able to spot the lie very easily in the things we read […]
The following is the text of a lecture given in the First Protestant Reformed Church, Holland, MI, November 6, 1998. Last month we ended with the following paragraph: “This then is the threefold calling of the Christian with regard to the civil government. We must be subject to the superior authorities, not resist, but obey […]