Do you love God’s law? The Psalms (especially Psalm 119) are full of expressions of love and delight for the law of God. The psalmist in Psalm 119:97 writes, “O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.” David writes in Psalm 40:8, “I delight to do thy will, O my […]
Our brothers and sisters in the Lord are being hunted down! No news this past month has been more heartbreaking than the news coming out of Afghanistan. The Taliban has seized control of Kabul and of the entire country. What this exactly means in the long term relating to stability in the Middle East is […]
The most dangerous man to the Roman Catholic Church stood alone. It was the morning of July 6, 1415. Everyone who was anyone—the highest ranking Catholic clergy and even Emperor Sigismund himself—gathered in the towering German cathedral, the site of the Council of Constance. Their goal was finally to rid the Catholic church of the […]
For most readers, the title of this editorial probably rings a bell. If it sounds familiar to you, that’s because it is a prominent phrase in one of the documents that most Protestant Reformed churches read on a regular basis. That document is the form for public confession of faith, which lists three questions that […]
John Wycliffe was born into a “dry and thirsty land, where no water is” (Ps. 63:1). England, as well as all of Europe, was very much in the “Dark Ages” in the early fourteenth century of Wycliffe’s childhood. During his lifetime, he watched as one-third of Europe’s population died of the Black Death. He saw […]
The Great Reformation of the sixteenth century is a lesson in God’s providence. This is certainly true of all history when seen through the eyes of faith, but it becomes especially clear when we consider the striking renewal of the church that God worked through men like Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, and John Calvin. Most […]
By the early 800s, the Roman Catholic Church had become a corrupted institution and was constantly moving further from God’s word. Corruption among the leaders of the church was already rampant and would continue to worsen in the centuries following. Most significantly, the doctrine of salvation was false. Although it was not yet the church’s […]
Many scholars consider Jacques LeFèvre (Jacob Faber) a pre-reformer. In fact, he was not, as will become plain. Who was he? LeFèvre was a Frenchman, born in Etaples, in the province of Picardy, about 1455. So he was in fact born before the Reformation began. Significant is that he was a humanist. Humanists were […]
The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the Lord. – Proverbs 21:31 The horse charges into battle. His hooves drum against the ground, vibrating the earth and filling the air with the thunder of hoofbeats. The horse’s nostrils flare wide as he heaves deep breaths. His neck muscles […]