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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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 […]
Read moreSubmission 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 […]
Read moreChallenges 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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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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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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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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