2 Timothy 2:2: And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also. Note: The first article, about preparing for and entering the seminary, can be found in the September issue of Beacon Lights. Questions about the […]
Note: The following is from a speech given for the Young People’s Mass Meeting in December 2019 at Trinity PRC. Young people, your Lord calls each of you to witness to him and to the glad tidings concerning salvation from sin and death by him; and he calls you to do that, not simply […]
Being a Student in the Theological School of the Protestant Reformed Church in the Philippines Jeremiah Pascual Dear Readers of Beacon Lights, As many of you probably have heard by now, the Protestant Reformed Churches in the Philippines have received by the grace of God their own seminary for the training of men […]
The Call to the Ministry Rev. Stephan Regnerus Our churches need more ministers. Synod 2019 expressed an urgent need for more seminary students; pastors regularly pray for more ministers; godly fathers encourage their sons to consider whether God has called them to become a preacher. The need for more ministers has been well documented, […]
Throughout my grade school, high school and college years, the word, “Every young man should consider the ministry,” or some variation thereof, penetrated my heart as the sower’s seed the hard path. That word never received even a momentary or passing consideration. I never considered why the ministry was not for me because I never […]
If it had not been for the Lord’s gracious work of salvation in the lives of my parents and me, my life would be very different right now. I can imagine what life would be like. I would be living in Singapore along with most of my extended family, Indian on my father’s side and […]
I did not grow up in the Protestant Reformed Churches, but in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (PCI), a liberal Presbyterian denomination. My mother instilled into me a love for the scriptures from childhood, and I cannot remember a time when I haven’t read God’s word. I suppose there must have been some true preaching […]
A couple weeks prior to writing this article, I had the privilege of giving a chapel speech at Covenant Christian High School in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The topic on which I spoke was the same as that of this article, namely, God’s work in my life to lead me into the ministry of the gospel. […]
“Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit: And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel” (Amos 7:14-15). If you would […]
I was once told that ministers tend to be the oldest children in their families. As the third of four children and second son, I do not fit that profile. The Lord added me on February 21, 1978 to the Spronk family while my dad, Delmar, served as an optometrist in the US Navy in […]