The century from the early 1400’s until the early 1500’s (which I will call the fifteenth century) in western Europe was a period of many sweeping changes. The Middle Ages transformed into the Renaissance. The feudal system ended, and the invention of the printing press allowed changes in society that led up to the Reformation. […]

In Genesis 1 we see how God created the heavens and the earth and all that’s in it. The big picture is that God created order out of chaos, and after doing that, he gave everything a name so as to know and define each new element, and to give it a place in the […]

This article is about the Dutch Reformed Protestants who emigrated to North America and took their faith and churches with them. They came in three waves: the first was during the 1840s after the Secession of 1834; the second was during the 1890s, after a second break with the Dutch state church took place; and […]

In several of my previous articles I alluded to the fact that feelings have become of the utmost importance in our society. This is at the cost of reason and common sense, but supposedly supported by science. In this article I would like to search for God’s opinion about feelings and reason, so we can […]

In everyday life we take words and language for granted. Every baby learns the language from his or her parents, and we use it to communicate with others throughout our lives. Even when a person becomes handicapped, we all will try to communicate with some kind of language, like Braille or sign language or even […]

The Right Kind of Strong: Surprisingly Simple Benefits of a Spiritual Strong Woman Mary A. Kassian. Nashville: Nelson Books, 2019. Paperback. 224 pages. Publisher’s list price: $17.99 In this book, Mary Kassian explains seven habits that can make a woman spiritually strong. Using 2 Timothy 3:6–7 as the starting point, she sets forth in a […]

When I told my son, who is twenty-two, I was going to write an article with this title, he asked how I could do that, as I never worked. What did you feel or think when you read this title? How has culture, your upbringing, and/or Scripture influenced your thinking about work? In this article […]

Losing a loved one will happen to most us. Although many of the points made will be applicable to all people who grieve the loss of a loved one, this article was written with widows in mind who are in middle life. Those who are widowed at an early age or still have young children, […]

The word “mentor” or the verb “mentoring” is not in the Bible, but the concept certainly is. In Titus 2, Paul gives a good explanation what mentoring is, both for men and women. In this article I would like to focus on women. I have encountered many misconceptions about the whole idea of mentoring. This […]

Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and […]