God has always been faithful to his church by guiding and preserving her. How does he do that? He does it through the preaching of doctrine. How can true doctrine be preached? This article explains that the preaching of the Heidelberg Catechism has been a means that God used to guide in church. Catechism preaching is important to the life of the church.

What is sin? When does a person sin? Who defines what is sinful? This article engages these three questions.

What is the place of singing in the Christian life? Singing is commanded by God. This article explains what this means for the Christian family, individual believer, and congregation.

Sorrow is not foreign to us. According to 2 Corinthians 7:10, there are two types of sorrow: godly sorrow and worldly sorrow. This article explains these types, as well as the results of these sorrows.

What is Christian hope? This article explains the nature and essence of this hope.

God is concerned with not only your actions but also your thoughts. What does the Bible say about your mind and thinking? What should shape Christian thinking? This article answers this question.

How should a visit to the sick be done? Be ready to listen, have the right attitude, and share a relevant message with prayer.

From Matthew 25, this article explains that Christians are those who live with true expectation of the coming of the Lord.

In Romans 8:28 we read that all things work together for good. Can divine desertion, spiritual affliction, and sin work together for your spiritual growth? This article explains how divine desertion works for your spiritual welfare.

In Romans 8:28 we read that all things work together for good. Can divine desertion, spiritual affliction, and sin work together for your spiritual growth? This article explains how divine affliction works for your spiritual welfare.

In Romans 8:28 we read that all things work together for good. Can divine desertion, spiritual affliction, and sin work together for your spiritual growth? This article explains how sin works for your spiritual welfare.

Whose responsibility is catechizing? This article explains that the responsibility to catechize lies with parents. It gives biblical grounds to the call to parents to fulfil this task in their parenting.

What is election? Clarifying what election is not can help to understand what it is.

Blasphemy against God’s Name and mocking His Name are popular. As young people how do you defend God’s Name when people blaspheme against it in public? The article engages this question.

What is the difference between godly sorrow and selfish sorrow? Do unbelievers have sorrow over sin? This article answers this question based on 2 Corinthians 7:10.

Should the church care for the poor? This article discusses the different views between Martin Luther and John Calvin on the deacons and their role and the office of deacons.

How should you prepare for the Lord’s Supper? Lord’s Day 30 of the Heidelberg Catechism points to three areas of self-examination in preparation for the Holy Communion.

Should the government be allowed to care for the poor in the church? This article discusses the relationship between the diaconate ministry and the government. It explains that deacons are called to work independent of the government’s help.

Exodus 25-Exodus 40 provides instructions for the building of the tabernacle. This article explains in three points the message of the tabernacle.

The essence of the Christian life is having one's eyes fixed on Jesus. This article explains how this is so from Hebrews 12:2.

How should Christians understand the meaning of salvation? It helps to understand what salvation is by knowing what things the Lord has saved us from. This article explains salvation from the guilt of sin, power of sin, and pollution of sin.

What is the forgiveness of sins? This article explains the necessity of being forgiven by God, the object of this forgiveness, and the fruit of being forgiven.

What is the character of the subjective Christian experience? This article explains how the experience of grace can be viewed.

When it comes to Bible reading, where do you start and how should you read the Bible? This article considers the issue.

Young people as they grow the will have to make choices. How do you go about making choices? From the life of Lot this article discusses four crucial areas for choice-making in the life of Christian youth.

How do you live for Christ as young people? One area which you must work on is on the choices you make. This article looks at Hebrews 11:24-26, showing from the life of Moses the importance of making right choices.

One of the means God used to advance the cause of the Reformation was the insistence of the Reformers in calling Christians to exercise private judgment, or to test everything. From 1 Thessalonians 5:21 this article explains the right, duty, and necessity of private judgment. It calls Christians to the duty and necessity of upholding the truth.

This article identifies three responses to preaching in Acts 17:32-34.

Christian education can progress when there is a true commitment from parents and teachers. This commitment calls for sacrifices too. The article explains the commitment needed from parents and teachers for the progress of Christian schools.

This article gives nine reasons for the necessity of the Catechism (whether the Heidelberg Catechism, the Westminster Shorter Catechism or Westminster Larger Catechism, or otherwise).

Repentance is present only when there is true sorrow over sin. From 2 Corinthians 7:10 this article explains the difference between godly sorrow for sin and worldly sorrow.

Covenant children are those whom God has claimed for himself. This article explains the importance of covenant education.

This article explores the necessity, possibility, and content of conversion.

Language is a very important aspect of being human. This article explains the place of language in Christian education.

This article is a biography of Gisbertus Voetius, with attention given to his fight for the defence of the truth.

The church is described as the body of Christ. How should church members live out this truth of many being one? This article explains the manner in which church unity is achieved by the many members.

This article considers what John 3:16 means, especially the word "world" (kosmos), and how does this relate to the doctrine of election.

How do you discern the guidance of the Lord in seeking a vocation or career? This article points to three things that will help you: God’s Word, your talents, and advice.

Central to knowing the will of God is knowing the Bible. There are three ways God gives us for knowing his will: his commandments, principles, and illustrations. This article explains the importance of these in the search for God’s guidance.

In Hebrews 12:15 we read that one can fail of the grace of God. What does that mean? This article explains that it is a lack of spiritual growth and a life void of fellowship with God.

This article explains that following Christ or imitating Christ is living a life of communion with Christ and union with Christ and bearing fruits of faith.

How can Christians fight against the sin of pride? This article answers this question by defining pride, pointing to its dangers, showing its source, and making a call to fight it.

From Deuteronomy 6:6-7 this article explains that child-rearing is best achieved through the working together of family, church, and school. The author explains how the three work together with the family as a foundation for raising children.

What should Christians think about hypnotism? The article engages this question.

What distinguishes a Christian from a non-Christian? Among other things, it is their respective attitudes toward sin. This article explains that a believer has experienced deliverance from sin, and a non-believer still lives in sin. This shapes the outflow of their lives.

What makes abortion wrong? This article explains that to realize abortion is murder, one must think on the question: what is life? The author considers this from a biblical perspective.

One of the dangers facing young people is the hardening of the heart. How can you know that you are hardening your heart? This article gives eight ways that can help you discern.

Christian education begins at home. This article explains that it is through parenting that seeds of faith are sown, and God uses this education as means to call children to himself. The article explains both the importance of this education and the manner in which parents should carry out this duty.

Education is a significant means God uses to build his church. This article explains this as the conviction of the Reformers, with focus on Martin Luther, showing that education can be used to build or destroy the church.

This article explains that worldliness is the attachment of the heart to worldly possessions.

This article gives a biography of Wilhelmus à Brakel and his works.

This article gives a biographical overview of Gijsbertus Voetius and the role he played in the Second Reformation or Further Reformation.

This article gives a biographical overview of Hendrick De Cock, with a focus on the role he played in the Secession of 1834 in the Netherlands.

How should you view your children? This article discusses seven things that must shape the way you view the training of children as parents.

The Second Reformation of Further Reformation happened in Holland. This article gives an overview of its history in relation to German Pietism and English Puritanism.

This article explains conversion, including the elements that are essential to conversion: conviction, faith, and repentance.

This article considers what engagement is. Christians must see engagement as an expression of a longing for marriage. The author also explains the absolute importance of being one in the faith.

Matthew 12:31-32 refers to the unpardonable sin. What is it, and do Christians fall into this sin? This article engages these questions.

This article explains the meaning and significance of consistorial prayer and consistorial handshake.

The message of self-esteem preached by pop-psychology is a great threat to the church, since it undermines the gospel.

This article explains the why, when, who, and how of forgiveness.

This article explains that the four Gospels together offer a comprehensive view of the person and work of the Lord Jesus.

Are theistic evolution and the gap theory proper explanations of the creation account in Genesis 1-Genesis 2? This article addresses the question.

This article looks at the relationship between the authority of parents and the authority of the school.

This article explains the past, present, and future work of Jesus in relation to the church and believer.

How should the church think about change? From the Reformation and the Reformers there are three principles that should guide change in the church.

This article gives a biographical overview of Johan Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel and the role they played in Christian music.

Genesis 3:20 records Adam’s confession of faith. This article explains that this faith was rooted in the gospel of God.

The Christian must be characterized by thanksgiving, because God commands it, wills it, and gives it.

Spiritual growth is essential to the Christian life. This article makes clear that Christians are called to it, they must desire it, and they must show the marks of Christian growth.

Religion is the bond that unites a Supreme Being and human being. This article explains that there are four characteristics of religion, and all four find their fulfilment in Christianity.

Growing in godliness happens when believers grow closer to God. The article explains that the church today needs to return to an understanding of the attributes of God.

Advent: What it is? How did we receive it? What is the essence of it? Should we commemorate it? This article answers these questions.

This article explains the nature of Christian unity from Psalm 133.

What is the role of apologetics in the Christian life? This article gives some historical background to the life of Cornelius Van Til and his contribution to the study of Christian apologetics. It discusses three schools in apologetics: presuppositionalism, evidentialism, and experientialism.

How should Christians respond to affliction and suffering? This letter mentions seven ways which suffering and affliction direct you to Christ.

How can you help the unconverted who are in the church? This letter offers three pieces of pastoral advice to the unconverted that may lead them to conversion.

What distinguishes true submission from false submission? This article gives four things that characterize true submission, and three that don't.

The importance of both Christ's ascension and Pentecost is often lost on the church. This article considers these twin blessings for the church of Jesus Christ.

This article draws lessons from Psalm 71 for the elderly on how they can find their righteousness in Christ.

One of the greatest needs of the church is prayer. What is true prayer? This article gives thirty-one thoughts.

This article gives a biography of Martin Luther and the way he was used by God to ignite reformation in the church.

What did the resurrection of Jesus accomplish? This article explains that the resurrection signalled the enemy's defeat, the gaining of victory, and the everlasting lordship of Christ.

Genesis 3:20 records Adam’s confession of faith. This article explains that this faith was rooted in the gospel of God, which led to reconciled relationship between Adam and Eve.

How should Christians think about leisure time or recreational time? Is there a room for entertainment in the Christian life? This article offers eight warnings to heed in relation to the use of leisure time.

How should Christians think about leisure time or recreational time? Is there a room for entertainment in the Christian life? This article offers five principles that must govern Christians as they think about these questions.

What do the Scriptures say about the discipline of the Lord? This article provides nine characteristics of such perfect parental discipline, which parents are also called to follow in the disciplining of their children.

What is special about the Reformation? This article provides a fourfold purpose in our celebrating of our Reformation heritage. Thereafter it considers one of the five pillars of the Reformation: sola scriptura, or Scripture alone.

What should be the Christian’s attitude toward death and dying? This article explains that Christians must learn to see that there is beauty in dying, and that their death is dear to God.

Are you wandering why are you not growing in grace? Is it possible that one or more of these things can be the hindrance to your spiritual growth? Let the article list them for you.

This article introduces the general message and structure of the Beatitudes as recorded in Matthew 5:3-12.

What is true religion? This is religion that is focused on and revolves around God. Anything short of that is false religion.

What is free will and how does it relate to the call to repentance? This article answers this question.

How should Christians observe the Lord’s Day? This article considers the scriptural principles governing the observance of the Lord's Day, the relationship between the Lord’s Day and the ministry of the gospel, the Old Testament punishment for desecrating the Lord’s Day, and the implications for believers.

Why do we read the Ten Commandments during the worship service? This article looks at the place of the Ten Commandment in the liturgy of the Reformed churches.

Does the doctrine of election cause you to have doubt? This article explains that the doctrine of election is not given to believers to make them doubt, but for their comfort.

This article explains the five solas of the Reformation: sola scriptura, sola gratia, sola fide, solus Christus, and soli Deo Gloria. It makes a call to the Reformed churches today to adhere to these principles.

Does infant baptism have any value? This article explains that to understand the value of paedobaptism one must understand the relationship between baptism and the covenant of grace.

Christians cannot pursue knowledge for the sake of knowledge. The goal of pursuing knowledge is God. Based on this conviction the article explains how knowledge should be pursued by Christians.

How should Christians think about death? This article explains that on the basis of the death of Christ, Christians must see their death as benefit.