Guido de Brès & Communion for the Sick
The sacraments were designed by God to strengthen our faith in Jesus Christ. As we go through life, we experience […]
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    The sacraments were designed by God to strengthen our faith in Jesus Christ. As we go through life, we experience […]
Read moreIt was a time of war. The opposing forces were lined up against one another across a valley. On the […]
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    Now this looks like a fun airport! This is in the French Alps.
Read moreAs mentioned on Monday, I just came back from four weeks of vacation. That was preceded by a week of […]
Read moreI’m continuing to read through the first volume of Francis Pieper’s Christian Dogmatics. His cavils against Calvinism can be frustrating […]
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    “Remember that pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul’s peace and […]
Read moreToday is my first day back after a few weeks of summer vacation — and it was a good one. […]
Read moreIt’s summer time and that means it’s time for a blog-cation. Next week my consistory has graciously given me time […]
Read moreA couple of weeks ago we had a Classis Ontario West where a number of recent seminary grads were being […]
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    In his little work on Spiritual Desertion, Gisbertus Voetius mentioned the case of Francis Spira as an example of those […]
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    I came across this quote yesterday in two books. It’s in Volume 1 of Pieper’s Christian Dogmatics (190). Then I […]
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    I’m currently reading Spiritual Desertion by Gisbertus Voetius and Johannes Hoornbeeck. This seventeenth-century work includes a helpful historical introduction by […]
Read more“Angels are deployed by God particularly for the rescue and protection of believers. Calvin has no problem in admitting this, […]
Read moreBack in the 1920s, R. B. Kuiper observed that many people in the Reformed Church in America rejected the Reformed […]
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