The Song of Zion “A Psalter–Psalm Devotional of Praise to Our Sovereign Covenant God” June 18 Read Psalm 61 Have you ever been far away from home where everything and everyone around you is strange and unfamiliar? The loneliness quickly turns to panic when trouble arises and there is no one around to help. It […]
June has arrived, and for most of our readers, so has the beginning of the summer season. Many of us are looking forward to vacations and having more time to relax. Those of us who are students are looking forward to having more opportunities to earn money. While we enjoy the opportunities to labor and […]
In the southwestern part of the Dutch province of Friesland you find the old State Reformed Church of Oudemirdum (see picture). In the newspapers of the region, De Balkster Courant and It Pompeblêd, this church building is very much in the news, because it has been discovered that all the woodwork is under the attack of gnawing beetles […]
Halfway through the main road from Heerenveen to Donkerbroek (in the Dutch province of Friesland) you find the village of Oudehorne. Here stands this Synodole Reformed Church, now part of the “Samen Op Beg” (Together On Our Way) movement in The Netherlands. It is a simple small church, well looked after, about 75 years old. […]
Editor’s Notes—As the story continues in this chapter, the reader will get a sense that as the pastor’s family had come to maturity, so had the churches. The churches started their first foreign mission field on the island of Jamaica. And while the churches mourned the deaths of their two leaders, Rev. Hoeksema and Rev. […]
The 2007 Protestant Reformed Young People’s Convention will be the 67th such convention in the history of our Protestant Reformed Churches. With God’s blessing, this convention will be for the great spiritual benefit of the young people who attend, just as the past 66 conventions have been. The 67th Young People’s Convention! Could anyone at […]
Simon Peter, James and John Were fishermen by trade. Jesus called them: Follow Me, And promptly they obeyed. Jesus taught them many things: About His Father’s will, About the heav’nly kingdom, And what He must fulfill. For three years their instruction Was given by the Lord And they were thus preparing To speak their Master’s […]
Fellow believers, walking the way through life with its trials and joys to our final resting place with God; when was the last time you enjoyed a heart to heart conversation with someone who “strengthened [your] hand in God” (1 Sam. 23:16)? Do you, like the apostle Paul, bring your friends before God in every […]
At the Young People’s convention every summer, two delegates from each Young People’s Soci-ety meet to elect new officers to serve on the Fed Board. These officers are elected from those who have been nominated by the current Fed Board. At the end of each summer, newly elected members take the place of those members […]
What kind of life are you living? Are you living the Christian life? Can you say that? Can you say that before the face of God? Can you say that in all honesty before your own conscience? Do you want to live the Christian life? Is that really the desire of your heart? Do you pray to […]