The Church as a Lampstand
25. January 2017
A pressing need of our generation is to reclaim a right understanding of the church. We are susceptible to making the church far more complicated than ...
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The One Way to Church Success
30. November 2016
On a recent trip to the U.S., I had the opportunity to visit a friend. He’s someone I’ve only known a few years, but every time I’m in his ...
A Good Soldier
14. September 2016
Picture two occasions: first, a sunny Lord’s Day morning as people file into church; second, a blood-drenched battlefield in a warzone. It’s hard ...
Imitating God
15. July 2016
Imagine a young boy ambling happily about his house when something startling happens, stopping him in his tracks. His eyes widen, his face contorts ...
Are We Called God’s Flock in Error?
13. May 2016
Perhaps the most historically memorable verse describing God’s people as His flock is Psalm 100:3. Psalters for centuries read, “We are His flock; ...
The Body of Christ
04. January 2016
Your body is a conglomeration of trillions of cells working to keep you alive. There are over a hundred distinct types of cells that are coordinated ...
A Church Full of Priests
02. November 2015
The metaphor of priesthood is a metaphor for privilege, access, and witness on behalf of God. Whether we say the “priesthood of all believers” or ...
The Church as the New Israel
11. September 2015
Of all the metaphors the Bible uses to describe the Church, perhaps the richest is that of the Church as the new, or spiritual, Israel. Sadly, ...
Your Mother the Church
15. July 2015
Many readers have heard Augustine’s adage, “He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.” By these words he ...
‘A Very Vocal but Simple Publication’
06. May 2015
In 1979, Dr. J.G. Vos wrote: “When I returned from missionary service in the Far East in 1941, I found the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North ...
J.G. Vos’ Work of Theological Renewal in the RPCNA
06. March 2015
In the flow of denominational history, periods occur where the church can be threatened and even overrun by liberalism. A look at the ecclesiastical ...
Implanting the Covenanter’s Witness in the American DNA
05. January 2015
We have Abraham Lincoln to thank that each American knows that “all men…are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.” But, in ...
J.G. Vos’s Temperate View on Temperance
05. November 2014
Beginning in the late 1930s, the RPCNA Synod began a debate regarding the relationship between the Christian and alcohol, a debate that led to a ...
J.G. Vos: Instrument of Biblical-Theology Revival
17. September 2014
A hermeneutic that has captivated many in the Reformed community is often called Vosian biblical theology. Its fount has its source in the writings of ...
Dr. Vos at Geneva
01. August 2014
God’s covenant promise to parents results in amazing fruitfulness and blessing to His kingdom people. God used the heritage of Dr. J. G. Vos’ ...
The Original RP Blog
01. February 2014
The church continually needs men and women committed to a gentle reformation, and I am encouraged to pursue the same by considering examples of saints ...
The Spiritual Gift of Discouragement?
01. October 2013
Some people in the church seem to have the spiritual gift of discouragement. It seems that all they ever do is discourage others. Truthfully, we are ...
Improving Congregational Singing
01. July 2013
According to Psalm 47, we are to sing the praise of the Lord “with skillfulness.” I will leave the musical instruction side of that commandment, ...
Training the Internet Generation
01. March 2013
As a freshman at Purdue University in fall 1995, I experienced the internet for the first time. The university had just installed Netscape browsers in ...
Gentle Reformation “Speed Limit for Cyber Speech”
01. November 2012
Do the following sentences make sense to you? “I found a BFF on FB with my Droid App. His blog made me LOL so hard I had to tweet.”1 If so, you ...