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Responding Appropriately to Chastisement (1): Lifting Up Drooping Hands

By : Reformed Free Publishing Association

May 20, 2024

Responding Appropriately to Chastisement (1): Lifting Up Drooping Hands

Responding Appropriately to Chastisement (Hebrews 12:12–17) Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees: and make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. (Heb. 12:12–13) In Hebrews 12, the subject is God’s chastisement. Many Christians view chastisement only as painful consequences for specific sins. But chastisement is wider than that. Chastisement is any suffering inflicted by God in love upon his...

"Biblical Obscurities": Author Mike Velthouse Interviews with Hope RWC

By : Reformed Free Publishing Association

May 17, 2024

"Biblical Obscurities": Author Mike Velthouse Interviews with Hope RWC

This weekend, spend a few hours with author Mike Velthouse and the Hope RWC podcast! Below, find links to a series of interviews with Mike, in which he discusses four "Biblical Obscurities." Readers may recognize hints of these and other Obscurities articles in his upcoming book, Journey Through the Psalms, a devotional for ages 9–13. Read More

In Memoriam – Herman C. Hanko (1930–2024)

By : Reformed Free Publishing Association

May 15, 2024

In Memoriam – Herman C. Hanko (1930–2024)

Rarely does God give to his church a ministry of one of his servants like that of Herman C. Hanko. This includes the length of a ministry. Ordained into the gospel ministry in the Protestant Reformed Churches (PRC) in 1955, Hanko was declared emeritus (retired) in 2001. God gave him 46 years of official, active labor in his church. Read More

Canons of Dordt Quizzes Study Guide NOW AVAILABLE!

By : Reformed Free Publishing Association

May 13, 2024

Canons of Dordt Quizzes Study Guide NOW AVAILABLE!

Now available on the Grace and Assurance webpage is a compilation of the last few months' Canons of Dordt quizzes, in a downloadable PDF. Read More

Quiz Your Knowledge of the Canons of Dordt (15)

By : Reformed Free Publishing Association

April 22, 2024

Quiz Your Knowledge of the Canons of Dordt (15)

Today in our Canons of Dordt quizzes, we conclude Head Five. (Head Five, Questions 54 to 79) Read More

Book Review - I Believe: Sermons on the Apostles' Creed

By : Reformed Free Publishing Association

April 19, 2024

Book Review - I Believe: Sermons on the Apostles' Creed

The following review was written January 25, 2024, by John Tipton on the book I Believe: Sermons on the Apostles' Creed by Herman Hoeksema (Jenison, MI: Reformed Free Publishing, 2023). Read More