July – Aug 2026 | Reformed Herald
“In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence” (Ephesians 1:7-8). In Ephesians 1:3-6, the Apostle Paul focuses our attention on God’s everlasting love, which is manifest in our adoption into his family as
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Man of God and Preacher of the Gospel It was the New England tour of the evangelist George Whitefield. He had proclaimed the gospel on the Boston Common to 23,000 people, the largest crowd that had ever gathered in America. It was now October of 1740, and Whitefield was riding horseback to Northampton, Massachusetts, having
How did a German church find its way to American shores at a time when Germans were hardly allies of the English? To answer that question, we must return to the shifting religious landscape of sixteenth-century Europe and to the court of the Palatinate. When Frederick II became Elector of the Palatinate, he inherited a
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Philip of Hesse, “along with other German and Swiss princes and rulers, faced three enemies: France, from the West; the Islamic forces or ‘Turks,’ from the East; and the Pope, ubiquitously [everywhere]. The princes could not afford to be divided; their lives and the survival of their provinces demanded a united front among the splintered
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In the inaugural issue of the Reformed Herald (August 1956), Editor Rev. Norman C. Hoeflinger wrote, “The preacher says ‘there is no new thing under the sun.’ Then why start a new paper? Our contribution to the world of religious literature is not an attempt at newness or novelty. We hope to say what has
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