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We Distinguish: Church and State

It gets rather tiresome:  every time a moral issue is debated in society and Christians attempt to contribute, someone will […]

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30 May 2022

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Come and See What God Has Done!

My first experience of the Philippines was ten years ago.  In 2012, I was invited to come and visit a […]

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3 May 2022

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Submission for Tasmania Law Reform Institute

The Tasmania Law Reform Institute (TLRI) recently released an “Issues Paper” addressing “possible reforms to Tasmanian law to respond to […]

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17 December 2020

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Faithful and Fruitful: Essays for Elders and Deacons

I’m just dropping a quick note here about this new book for office bearers published by Reformed Fellowship.  If you’re […]

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13 November 2019

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Laying On of Hands Revisited

A few years ago, I wrote a post about the Belgic Confession article 31 and what it used to say […]

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3 October 2017

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True and False Catholicism

“Swimming the Tiber” is a popular way of saying that a Protestant has defected to Roman Catholicism (the Tiber River […]

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28 March 2017

Reformation 500 Roman Catholicism

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Presbyterianism and Admission to the Lord’s Supper

I’m still working on getting acquainted with my new context here in Australia.  There’s a lot to learn!  I’m keen […]

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27 June 2016

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Reflections on “The Holland I Never Knew”

Anne Bokma and I have some things in common.  We both have Dutch ancestry.  We both belong to the first […]

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17 March 2016

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Vector That Meal!

Many Reformed churches have meal ministries.  You know the sort of thing.  A family in the church has a newborn […]

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1 March 2016

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Reaching Out at the Expense of the Church?

Most believers will agree that the church should be outward looking and care about the lost.  However, for some, it’s […]

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18 February 2016

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Challenges Facing the Canadian Reformed Churches

As most readers know, last September I accepted a call to the Free Reformed Church of Launceston, Tasmania.  We’ve applied […]

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27 April 2015

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Confessional Conferences for Reformed Unity

Back in the early 1990s, a unique effort was made to address several  pressing issues facing Reformed and Presbyterian churches.  […]

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20 April 2015

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Is Your Worship Reformed?

Some years ago, I sat through a worship service of a neighbouring church that wasn’t Reformed.  What struck me most […]

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15 April 2015

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Peter Y. De Jong: There is No Church Insurance Against Apostasy

Today I’d like to go back again to the archives of the Association of Christian Reformed Laymen, published in A […]

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6 April 2015

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Rev. Wes Bredenhof (B.A., M.Div., Th.D.) is pastor of the Free Reformed Church in Launceston, Tasmania. Read More
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Books by Wes Bredenhof

Aiming to Please

Published 2020

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Seven Wondrous Words

Published 2019

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Solus Christus

Published 2018

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