Sermon Profile: God’s Vine (1978)

“God’s Vine” is a sermon by the late Rev. Marinus Schipper preached in 1978.* He preached it with special thought for “our covenant young people.” The message is timeless, the homiletics masterful, and the doctrine distinctively Protestant Reformed. Every reader would do well to listen to it. The sermon takes as its text John 15:1-2. Rev. Schipper’s introduction describes this passage as containing “a very solemn and important truth.” In the same breath, he mentions that this truth is “hidden”...