The significance of human beings over all other species resides in the image of God stamped on each person.

Areas of concern regarding “The Confessional Conference” of 1993 are expressed.

A defense of Presbyterian polity.

Too often we have trouble placing such a high evaluation on preaching because it does not seem to correspond to our experience.  Many Christians today believe that they came to faith through the witness of family or friends or through a small group Bible study.  They may have heard relatively poor preaching and find it hard to attribute such importance to preaching in general or in their own spiritual development.

The offering clearly has a vital function in the financial life of the congregation, but how does it function spiritually in the worship of the church?

As Christians, we must keep biblical words and categories of thought as foundational to our own.

How Christians are to thoughtfully engage with pop culture.

The importance of the blessings pronounced in our worship is a significant teaching of Scripture that ministers need to insure that the people of God understand its meaning and value.

The ancient worship of the church, which focused on the Psalms and sung without musical accompaniment, was simple, spiritual, and reverent.

The action of Synod 1990 in the Christian Reformed Church was tyrannical, judged purely from the perspective of Church Order Article 31. In 1990 as in 1944, Article 31 is at the center of our church struggles. 

A brief study of the life and work of the German reformer Philip Melanchton.

A brief biographical sketch of the eastern church father John Chrysostom.

There is a day that belongs to Jesus in a special way. Revelation 1:10 is a key to knowing that Sunday is the Lord's Day.

The power of Calvin's spiritual counsel was in the fine balance that he maintained between his insistence on militant faithfulness in the real battles of the Christian life and his constant reminders of the assurance of victory that the Christian has in Christ. 

As we seek to reform the music of the church, we must try to do that – as Calvin did – in a biblical way.

An examination of the Apostle Paul's teaching in 1 Corinthians 9:22.

To understand the truth, to be protected from error, to testify clearly to the world creeds and confessions are an invaluable resource for Christians.

The necessity of discerning and confronting error in the church.

Who was the founder of Arminianism and what did he teach that had everyone talking?

A reflection on the divisions that were present in the Christian Reformed Church in the 1980's.