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A Martyr’s Last Letter to His Mother

Among the Reformation martyrs was the author of the Belgic Confession, Guido de Brès.  He served as a pastor in […]

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5 April 2022

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The Protests Which Divided Reformed Churches

We might think we’re the first ones in history to encounter questions about how Christians should respond to perceived or […]

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14 February 2022

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Reformed = Anti-Revolutionary

My Dad was a pilot in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and, as a boy, I was so proud of […]

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1 February 2022

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You Say You Want a Revolution?

It used to be that the left had a monopoly on talk of revolution.  You could count on leftists to […]

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25 October 2021

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The First Mark and Mission

Of the Belgic Confession’s articles on the doctrine of the church, article 29 is probably the most well-known amongst Reformed […]

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7 June 2021

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Five Ways You’re Probably Not A Calvinist

What’s a Calvinist?  That can be a tough question to answer.  It’s fair to say there are Reformed people who […]

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4 February 2020

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De Brès, the Belgic Confession, and Persecution

Did you know the Belgic Confession is the only officially adopted Reformed confession written by a martyr?  True, other confessions […]

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25 October 2019

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The Reformation and Doxology

Five hundred years!  Today is the day we mark a half millennia since God brought Reformation to his church.  Over […]

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31 October 2017

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The Reformation and Martyrdom

In parts of Europe, the Reformation was marked with the spilling of blood.  In the first half of the sixteenth […]

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27 October 2017

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The Reformation of Purgatory

One of the most important Reformers in the Low Countries was Guido (or Guy) de Brès.  Martyred in 1567, we […]

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25 October 2017

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The Reformation and the Apocrypha

Did you know that the first editions of the Belgic Confession included two proof-texts from the apocrypha?  Did you know […]

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24 October 2017

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De Brès vs. Richardot: A Reformation Debate

If there’s one Reformation figure who deserves more attention, I would argue that it’s Guido de Brès.  Since I wrote […]

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12 October 2017

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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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Women in Office = False Church?

It could happen later this year that the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands decide at their synod to officially allow […]

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9 March 2017

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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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