July – August 2025 | Reformed Herald

As a retired pastor, my relationship with sermons has undergone a profound shift in recent months. Instead of writing and preaching God’s Word to others (a role I hope to resume in time), now I’m more focused on listening to others preach it. I’ve always said that believers should be active hearers of the Word

God is not bound by time, restricted to the present moment. He is not walled off from the past or the future. The past, present, and future are equally present to him. We as creatures relate to time in a much different way. We are embedded in time: coming into existence at conception, entering the

How did you come to believe the Gospel? I was raised in Roman Catholicism where I learned the Nicene Creed. Did I really believe at that point? Well, it’s complicated. I don’t remember much of the gospel being preached to me from the pulpit other than the occasional “Jesus loves you” from the lips of

Take these things away! Do not make My Father’s house a house of merchandise. – John 2:13-16 Introduction: We know from our beloved Bible and our helpful Heidelberg Catechism that Jesus is a loving, faithful, self-giving, loyal, forgiving, and gentle person. Can you think of him as having an angry rage that caused him to

The Synod of the RCUS has long affirmed that the purpose of the Foreign Ministries Committee is to train pastors in foreign lands, equipping them to become self-governing, self-perpetuating, and self-supporting. Historically, providing direct financial support to pastors and churches has proven ineffective. Rather than expanding the number of congregations, this approach often led to

When we study the Reformation and later periods, we often have the privilege of learning about Christian women through their own words. The women of the church in the first few centuries, however, are more often a mystery to us, glimpsed primarily through the writings of others. One such woman is the fourth-century deaconess, Olympia

When Martin Luther refused to recant at the Diet of Worms, he sealed “his doom as a heretic. German nobles quickly surrounded him and led him safely from the hall,” and “when it became clear that the German nobles would not hand Luther over to the papal authorities, Charles V placed him under the imperial

When I entered Heidelberg Theological Seminary in Sioux Falls, SD, Dr. Maynard Koerner was my primary professor. At that time, my understanding of God and the gospel was basic. After four years of training, my understanding of both grew exponentially, partly due to studying the Heidelberg Catechism. My appreciation for the Catechism deepened 4–5 years

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures. 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 GOOD FRIDAY is a day when we remember the suffering of

All of us have watched and admired the skill of the potter as he places a lump of clay on his wheel that is driven either by his foot, or now by electrical power, and with his thumbs and fingers draws up the revolving clay into the desired shape. To finish, his work is glazed