March – April 2026 | Reformed Herald

March – April 2026 | Reformed Herald

the two Margarets Covenanter martyrs

The Wigtown Martyrs

Margaret Wilson and Margaret MacLachlan Between the 1660s and 1680s, an era now known as “The Killing Times,” tens of thousands of Scottish Presbyterians were imprisoned, exiled, or even killed for their beliefs. While their descendants visit the graves and recount the stories of many of these martyrs to this day, few are remembered with

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Life and Ministry in Italy

[Editor’s note: An article in the Reformed Herald (“Abundant Life Bible Church in Venezuela” Vol. 80, No. 1: Jan/Feb. 2024, pp. 4-6 introduced the Guillén Rondón family to our readers. What follows is a brief update on them, as well as the church.] For numbers of political prisoners and people eking out a bare subsistence

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biblical counseling for the soul

The Downcast Soul

“Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance. O my God, my soul is cast down within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, and from the heights

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Why Salvation Depends on God’s Mercy

Divine Mercy: Our Only Hope

Paul begins his letter to the Galatians by referring to “this present evil age” in which we now live (Gal. 1:4). In a similar way, he draws the attention of Titus to the dark reality that “there are many rebellious men, empty talkers and deceivers” (Titus 1:10). We who have come to Christ in salvation

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images of Christ Second Commandment

John Murray on Images of Christ

[Editor’s Note: Many of our ministers were personally taught by Professor John Murray of Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He contributed an article to the Reformed Herald, which is here reprinted from the February 1961 issue (Vol. XVI, No.9, pp.65-66. The refusal to use images of Christ is a conviction with deep roots in the

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William Tyndale English Bible

History of the Reformation: Tyndale

Four months after Luther published his theses Erasmus sent them to his English friends John Colet and Sir Thomas More. Thereafter many books were imported into England. Lutheran doctrine invaded the two great English universities of Oxford and Cambridge” (Kuiper, 221). In the town of Cambridge, “there was a pub called the White Horse Inn

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avoiding theological extremes

Editorial: February 2026

People may not recognize it, but when they speak of themselves as “centrists” or disavow extremism, it is likely that in the background of their thought is an idea that has been called the “golden mean” of Aristotle. In writing about the nature of virtue, Aristotle observed, “…virtue has the quality of hitting the mean”

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