Although it’s been a couple of months since we’ve been immersed in news coming from Japan about the 2020/2021 Olympic games, it’s still worth considering how these events are understood in the modern worldview of our country. The “Top Story of the Day” on Monday, August 9 (at least according to my newsfeed), was how […]
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 […]
Florida led the nation in tragic news and events in the last weeks of June. There were shark attacks, a condo complex collapsing into a pile of twisted metal and rubble, and a truck careening through a parade route killing one, critically injuring another, and almost hitting a convertible that was to drive Congresswoman Debbie […]
In March of 2002, my former colleague Mr. Cal Kalsbeek was approached by a member of the Standard Bearer editorial committee to write a column for their magazine aimed at evaluating current events in our world. The end result, forty-plus articles later, was not only a regular series for subscribers of the Standard Bearer to […]
It’s hard to believe. Can a government this divisive, this wicked, and this disdainful be ordained and controlled by the thrice holy God of heaven and earth? Why would God have anything to do with an institution that seems to have been fully given over to detestable corruption? Does the believer have any hope anymore? […]
“Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.” Psalm 116:15 On October 14, 2020, Dave DeVries was taken to his heavenly home. He passed away due to complications of the coronavirus: Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and pneumonia. The virus was the means by which God brought him home, […]
It has nearly been a year since the first case of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was detected in the United States (Jan. 20, 2020) and more than a year since the first case was diagnosed in the world (Dec. 31, 2019).[1] Governors across the United States have imposed a number of lockdowns, stay-at-home orders, and […]
Not every question can be answered by appealing directly to a text of scripture. The Bible has nothing to say about the modern practice of voting. At the time when the Bible was written, the government was either a theocracy, where God ruled in Israel through a hereditary monarchy and priesthood, or God’s people were […]
Have you had your second tower moment? You need not have a memory of that day to grasp the concept. When the first plane flew into the World Trade Center tower on September 11, 2001, it was thought by many to have been a tragic accident. When the news broke that the second tower had […]
The Institution and Function of the Civil Government The subject we explore in this article is the civil government. A wide range of perspectives on government exists both in the world and in the church. Many are quite negative. It is important for Reformed young people to have a biblically informed perspective on government. To […]