Dear Reader, Reformed theology supports the believer in being exquisitely grateful for the ordinary ingredients of life. From one point of view, of course, “ordinary” is not exactly the right language. What is ordinary about existence? It wasn’t necessary for God to create, and so all of creation has a staggeringly free quality about [...]
In 2 Corinthians 5:17, the Apostle Paul said, Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. What sets the Christian apart from the world is that he is a new creation, reborn by the working of the Holy Spirit in regeneration, [...]
The United Reformed Churches in North America began on November 14-15, 1995. The spirit of the URCNA began earlier. Concerns about biblical and confessional faithfulness in the Christian Reformed Church had been poking up like prairie dogs in June in South Dakota since the mid-1950s. Major synodical decisions in 1972 and 1973 gravely impacted biblical [...]
