The Reformed Witness Hour: Still Proclaiming the Truth of God’s Sovereignty
This article celebrates the Reformed Witness Hour radio ministry and its seventy-three-year commitment to proclaiming God's sovereignty as the central theme of all Christian preaching, drawing on Rev. Hoeksema's foundational vision. It highlights how this broadcast program, closely associated with the Protestant Reformed Churches, maintains the core Reformed emphasis that God's absolute sovereignty must undergird every doctrinal discussion, whether addressing salvation, sin, grace, or ecclesiology.
"The supreme and, in a sense, the only task of the Church is to preach the Word of God. But if there is a Word of God to be proclaimed by the Church, it must needs be a Word which God Himself speaks, and which He speaks concerning Himself. And if God speaks concerning Himself, the basic and all-pervading note of that speech must inevitably be: I am God! Unless the Church proclaims this truth in all its implications, in all its purity and without compromise, she cannot preach, she has nothing to...
Full article available on sb.rfpa.org
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