How to Do Family Worship
It’s one of the most basic things that a Christian family does — or should do. And yet there are […]
Read moreSynod Dunnville 2016 (4)
The Acts of day 5 of the Synod have just been published — but I haven’t yet had the opportunity […]
Read moreReconciling the Regulative Principle with “Feast Days”/”Days of Commemoration”
In its basic form, the regulative principle of worship states that we are only to worship God as he has […]
Read moreFRCA Synod 2015 (4)
By now, many readers are already aware of what took place at Synod Baldivis last Friday. After all, there was […]
Read moreNew Resource Added: Liturgical Helps Version 2.0
For some time I’ve had a resource available here entitled Liturgical Helps. I prepared this document for myself a few […]
Read moreIs Your Worship Reformed?
Some years ago, I sat through a worship service of a neighbouring church that wasn’t Reformed. What struck me most […]
Read moreBook Review: The Nursery of the Holy Spirit
The Nursery of the Holy Spirit: Welcoming Children in Worship, Daniel R. Hyde, Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2014. Paperback, 69 […]
Read moreThe Covenant of Grace and the Style of Reformed Worship
When a Reformed church takes the covenant of grace seriously, what impact does that have on our public worship? That […]
Read moreRaising Covenant Children
What difference does it make if the children of believers belong to the covenant of grace? Chapter four of my […]
Read moreEcclesiology of the New Calvinism
I recently finished reading a book entitled Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church. Authored by Matt Chandler, Josh Patterson, […]
Read moreSynod Carman 2013 (4)
As Phil Robertson would say, “Now we’re cooking with peanut oil.” There are several very interesting items in yesterday’s […]
Read moreSynod Carman 2013 — Prognosis (6)
Nothing gets dyed-in-the-wool Canadian Reformed folk more animated than the Book of Praise. Not animated in the charismatic/Pentecostal sense, but […]
Read moreChrist’s Rules for Worship — Excerpt from The Beautiful Bride of Christ
The following is from chapter 6 of The Beautiful Bride of Christ: The Doctrine of the Church in the Belgic Confession — […]
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