Not so long ago, I had a discussion with an individual who claimed: “Satan is at the helm and is now pushing all of humanity into an immorality and darkness that will lead to our total destruction.” I am so thankful that his assertion is wrong. We have Christ’s ascension as proof. Jesus is at […]

“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this is not from yourselves, it is a gift of God – not by works, so that no one can boast.” (Ephesians 2:8, 9) The score was seven to five in the bottom of the final inning. The team sponsored by the […]

Rightly, we individually and corporately confess what Scripture teaches after a careful, exegetical study and elucidation of the text of Scripture, not because it is the view of our Reformed forebears. Having reflected upon the text of Scripture, we may or may not agree with the teachings of historic, confessional Reformed dogmatics. It is the […]

Learning about God’s providence over my entire life, from before the foundation of the earth, through birth, to second birth, and throughout my life turned my world upside down. When I first became a Calvinist (believing the “Five Points”) my world no longer fit together nice and neat. My future career choice went from accountant […]

From the first coming of Christ until the day of His return, the kingdom of Satan grows in strength and number. The hostility, opposition, persecution, and hatred of Satan against the Christ and His church grows increasingly horrific in nature. Satan knows that he cannot defeat Christ, and so all of his efforts are directed […]

Q. How are you righteous before God? A. Only by a true faith in Jesus Christ; that is, though my conscience accuse me that I have grievously sinned against all the commandments of God and kept none of them, and am still inclined to all evil, yet God, without any merit of mine, of mere […]

Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, “I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?” (Jeremiah 32:26, 27) In Jeremiah 32, God says, “I am Jehovah, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for Me?” In this verse, the fact of God’s almighty power […]

January 1984 “If ecclesiastical assemblies make decisions which are contrary to the Word of God or the Church Order and still consider such decisions settled and binding, they become dictatorships! This may never be allowed in the Church of Christ. Settled and Binding Henry Vander Kam February 1984 “What the church needs today is a […]