Holiness in a World of Violence

This editorial is based on a speech from the Hope (Redlands) PRC Young Adults retreat held in July 2023.    Man’s heart, and therefore our world, is filled with violence. This is Scripture’s description of the world before God destroyed it with the flood: “The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence” (Gen. 6:11). Violence increasingly fills our world today, making it ripe for judgment in the day of Christ. God hates all this violence and even the lovers of it:...