Beacon Lights is excited to announce that we will be sponsoring a writing contest this year! This contest is for anyone in seventh grade or older, and there will be a prize for the top three entries in each of the four age groups. The four categories and the writing prompts for each category are […]
I’d like to use this rubric for a time in exploration and explanation of interesting things – especially tangible objects – that appear in the Bible and often in the historical narrative passages. Typically in our preaching, teaching and studying of the scriptures in which we are searching for the spiritual, gospel truth of the […]
The work that God has given to the Georgetown PRC congregation is a great blessing for us as we seek to help the saints in Vellore, India grow in the Reformed faith and spread the gospel in a land that is over 95% Hindu and Muslim. Our congregation was given this wonderful work by Rev. […]
January 8–Read Genesis 8 I may not be the most patient person in the world. I remember that when we bought our house, I just couldn’t understand why the homeowner was unable to provide us with an instantaneous response. The waiting was awful! Noah knew how to wait. I can’t even fathom how antsy I […]
Danny tromped through the snow, poking at the drifts with a stick. When he got cold, he shuffled inside and shrugged out of his boots, coat, and snow pants. His mom had a mug of hot chocolate waiting for him. Becky already sipped at hers, stirring in another marshmallow. Danny wrapped his cold fingers around […]
“What do you believe is the proper way to deal with brothers or sisters who have left our Protestant Reformed churches for another, and in our view lesser Reformed church? I believe that they have sinned by going to a lesser church, but if they are still attending church faithfully and seem to walk a […]
It will be helpful to read the July 2016 editorial if you still have a copy of this issue. The present editorial is in some ways a continuation of this earlier article. When it was written, the election had not yet been held and was being hotly contested. Now the election is past, and we […]
MHH: And at that point you became… AL: The principal until 1997. And I had the problems of being a principal. MHH: For example. AL: For example. There were people who felt that I was too severe. There were people who felt that I wasn’t severe enough on certain things. There were kids who lied […]
As regular readers of Beacon Lights know, 2016 marked the 75th anniversary of the publication of the magazine. We celebrated this milestone by reprinting a number of articles from the magazine’s history, beginning with a goodly number from the 1940s and continuing throughout the decades that followed. From readers’ comments it is evident that this […]
Greetings again from the Fed Board! As your Executive Board, it is our duty to keep you informed on what we are doing and what we plan to do this year, as well as provide a reminder of who we are. This year, the Board consists of 11 members. Each member is nominated by the […]