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Through the power of his marvelous grace, let his love dominate all the manifestation of your life as a co-worker with God. Unto that end fight the good fight. For you are still in the world, and in the world you still have the operations of sin and death in your members, while you have but a small
In this issue, we celebrate the 500th anniversary of the great Reformation begun in 1517. We acknowledge that we must not be guilty of garnishing the sepulchers of the prophets, while despising the Word of God that they brought. We must not arrogantly imagine that we are the only ones who rightly ce
As often happens in the history of the church on earth, God uses the events of the past to teach His people in the present time, even though these historical events may have happened hundreds of years ago. One of these events in church history which we Americans still celebrate had its beginning acr
It is some four hundred and fifty years ago (447 to be exact) that Luther nailed his ninety-five theses to the door of the church at Wittenberg thus beginning what is known in history as the Protestant Reformation. Perhaps a brief review of the events which led to this memorable and earth shaking ac
In the course of the next few weeks you can expect to; hear that the consistories of the Protestant Reformed churches in various areas will hold a formal observance of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of our churches. This is indeed fitting and proper and we look for the interest of th
November 2013 67 Comfort for Living and Dying of 1563. Not all celebrated the Heidelberger when it first appeared. Some criticized it, criticized it sharply. The Catechism met with “a storm of protest from Lutherans,” especially from Gnesio-Lutherans, the strict Lutherans who opposed the Philippist
Four hundred years ago, theologians -- pastors and professors -- from Reformed churches all over Europe were wending their way to the town of Dordrecht, in the province of Utrecht, in the Lowlands. They were coming by invitation of the Reformed churches and the States General, the governing politica
The year was 1562. The land was in chaos over lack of direction concerning the Lord’s Supper as well as some other points of doctrine. The light of the Reformation had dawned nearly fifty years earlier when Luther nailed his theses to the door in Wittenberg, but that light had scattered in many diff