CONSERVATIVES CLASH OVER ISRAEL AND THE JEWS In a December 1, 2025 blog post, Kevin DeYoung wrote on his website, “Increasingly, the loudest voices arguing for Christian Nationalism are marked by juvenile insults steeped in online jargon from the dissident right. What’s more, some of these proponents traffic openly in racist ideology, antisemitism, and Neo-Nazi sympathies….” Thus, one question he has for Christian Nationalists is this: “Do you unequivocally renounce antisemitism, racism, and Nazism?”1 What about you? Do you categorically renounce antisemitism (anti-Jewish thinking)? There has been open antisemitism on the political left for a while now, especially since Hamas...
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Without the grace of God, the fallen human race develops technology in the service of sin and not for the glory of God. The ungodly use new technology to commit the same sins their ancestors did but in new and alluring ways, and we are tempted to do so too. The world makes sin to abound more and more through new inventions and fills up the cup of iniquity ever more quickly (Gen. 4:16ff.; 6:5; Matt. 24:12). The rise of the world-changing technology of artificial intelligence is no different. The CEO of OpenAI recently announced the release of a new...
On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump began his inaugural address with remarks that must have annoyed the political left while giving the political right an excitement they had not felt in a long time: “The golden age of America,” he declared, “begins right now. From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world. We will be the envy of every nation, and we will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer. During every single day of the Trump administration, I will, very simply, put America first…. America will soon...
Pastor of Wingham PRC in Wingham, Ontario BRUTAL PERSECUTION Last February, Open Doors reported that “seventy Christians were discovered beheaded inside a Protestant church” in a northeastern province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). That part of the country has been torn by war between the DRC and rebel forces backed by neighboring Rwanda for some thirty years. An Islamist militant group with ties to ISIS, called Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), has added to the fear and chaos in that same region. They were the ones who carried out the brutal murder of those seventy men and women...
pastor of the Wingham PRC in Wingham, Ontario, Canada A lot has happened in the Protestant Reformed Churches since the last major anniversary celebration in the year 2000. I was a teenager attending the Protestant Reformed Young People’s Convention at Calvin College, just down the road from where I grew up, when the 75th anniversary was celebrated at the same time on the same campus. As a young person at that time, I believed that the PRC were the purest manifestation of the true church in this world and other churches were apostatizing. I thought our ministers were strong...
pastor of the Wingham PRC in Wingham, Ontario, Canada We pastors must speak “the things which become sound doctrine” to men and women of all ages in the church (Tit. 2:1-10). The things that become sound doctrine are the Christian virtues which ought to bloom in the hearts and lives of us who know the doctrine that Jesus Christ “gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works” (v. 14). The sound doctrine of “the grace of God that bringeth salvation” teaches us that we...
pastor of the Wingham PRC in Wingham, Ontario, Canada FRACTURING OF THE CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH “At least two dozen churches in the Christian Reformed Church of North America are in the process of severing their ties with the denomination over their disagreements with its increasingly rigid stance on sexuality.”1 Four of those churches are located in Classis Grand Rapids East: Calvin Church, Grace Church, Church of the Servant, and Sherman Street, churches with many professors, staff, and students of Calvin University. On the Canadian side of the border, a new group that I have mentioned before, called “Toward CRC Canada,”...
pastor of the Wingham PRC in Wingham, Ontario, Canada “In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise” (Prov. 10:19). I would like to “minister to the saints” in this article by calling your attention to this proverb that shows us the wisdom of God for our lives when it comes to our use of words. When we pour out a multitude of words without restraining ourselves, there is no lack of sin in what we say or write. I believe we all need to hear this. We seem to live in...
pastor of the Wingham PRC in Wingham, Ontario, Canada Earlier this fall, children across the land went back to school. Most of them go to a public school. But a rising number are going to private schools, or are being homeschooled. The theology editor at Christianity Today, Stefani McDade, recently wrote that the debate about Christians using the public schools “has come back to the foreground of our public life in recent years.” She cites a Gospel Coalition debate in which the popular evangelical author and speaker Jen Wilkin used “faith-led arguments” to promote Christians sending their children to public...
pastor of the Wingham PRC in Wingham, Ontario, Canada In February of 2023, I wrote an article entitled “Young, Restless, and Reformed today” about the current resurgence of interest in Reformed theology that began in the early 2000s. In April of 2023, I wrote about what was called a revival at Asbury University, a school founded by Wesleyan/Methodist men in the 1800s. In August of the same year, I wrote about a split in the United Methodist Church and the formation of the new Global Methodist Church. Continuing in that lane, I direct your attention to a recent article claiming...
