Some years ago I received a questionnaire from the Christian academy I attended while a teenager in northern California. Like many schools, my alma mater was interested in maintaining contact with its alumni and ascertaining what they were doing in life, especially whether their alumni were putting their Christian education to good use. As I […]
In Six Days God Created: Refuting the Framework and Figurative Views of the Days of Creation. By Paulin Bédard Xulon Press, 2013 Paperback, 252 pages ISBN 9781625092991 We often hear of our sister churches in Quebec, the Eglise Reformee du Quebec, but now we have an opportunity to read a volume produced by one of […]
While Reformed Christians from the Netherlands came to America and brought their faith with them beginning in the later seventeenth century, there was also a great influx of Reformed Christians immigrating from Germany in the early eighteenth century. These immigrants settled primarily in Pennsylvania and New York. In 1776, Benjamin Franklin noted that a third […]
The Presbyterian Reformed Church might easily be confused with the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America because of some similarity in name. The Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (RPCNA) will be featured at a later time. The Presbyterian Reformed Church was founded in Ontario, Canada, on November 17, 1965, and presently consists of only […]
Do you plan to go to college? If you’re in high school, your search for the place to continue your education has likely already begun. Maybe you’ve already visited a few campuses and experienced the typical sales pitches from tour guides and admissions counselors. Maybe your mailbox is starting to sag with the weight of shiny brochures […]
Introduction It all started when I was an eighteen-year-old freshman at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia. I was on the soccer team, which meant frequent bus trips and food courts. On one such Saturday, as we traveled deeper into the South, we stopped at a mall to grab a bite to eat. And there […]
How do you deal with rejection? In our fallen world that’s an important question. One of the major themes in Mark 6:1–29 is that those who live and die in the joy of heavenly comfort still face huge disappointments. In this passage the church’s cornerstone and the most significant men of the apostolic church all […]
In each of the stories in our text Jesus responds to a problem. This problem-response motif tells us something about ourselves and about Jesus. It tells us that after our fall into sin, “man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward” (Job 5:7). Man’s manifold problems can be traced back to Genesis 3:6. […]
There is no direct reference to the angel of the Lord by that name or title in the book of Joshua. However, there is a record of “a man . . . with a drawn sword in his hand” who confronts Joshua as he contemplates his attack on the city of Jericho. The man identifies […]
The Ottoman Empire was the most powerful country in the world in the sixteenth century. The Ottoman state began in the fourteenth century, ever expanding, conquering by holy war in the name of Allah. It crushed the Byzantine Empire, capturing Constantinople in 1453. The Ottomans reached the apex of their power under Sultan Suleyman, who […]