All Articles For Job

Mr. Wigger is a member of the Protestant Reformed Church of Hudsonville, Michgian. Congregation Activities Members of Trinity PRC in Hudsonville, MI were asked to reserve the evening of January 19 for their congregation’s Talent Night. Trinity members were encouraged to sign up themselves, or volunteer someone else in the church, to take part in the program. The evening provided an opportunity for good Christian fellowship and for discovering God’s gifts and talents in each member who participated. The Choir of First PRC in Edmonton, AB, Canada spent the evening of January 6 singing for the residents of Emmanuel Home...

Christianity has a very strong view of personal assurance of salvation. This is so because the Christian believes that the objective word of his sovereign Lord determines being, reality and destiny. He said, “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me: and I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish.” The Christian believes that Christ spoke these words, and believing them he has that eternal life through His name. He knows that Christ’s word was written and recorded in order that he might know that he has eternal life.

Rev. VanOverloop is pastor of Byron Center Protestant Reformed Church in Byron Center, Michigan. “For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: and though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.” Job 19:25, 26 The first impression of most who read these verses is that the emphasis of the passage is on the hope of the resurrection of the body. While Job definitely had the resurrection of his body in mind, his attention was most emphatically on the knowledge of his...

Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord. Jeremiah 8:7 With eager anticipation we await the return of the birds to our neighborhoods. Our eagerness to see and hear the birds again arises, in part, from the fact that their return signifies the end of winter. As Christians, we ought to welcome the end of winter and the arrival of spring, not so much because we dislike the snow or the cold weather,...

Before calling attention to the development of the doctrine of the atonement in the second period of the church (this period is not characterized by too much development of this doctrine), it might be well to summarize what we covered until now. First, we have a clear presentation of this in the History of the Christian Church by Philip Schaff, Vol. II, 583 ff.; and we quote:

Jesus was comforting His disciples.  He had told them to expect trials. 

Yes, you may laugh.  Solomon does indeed say in Ecclesiastes 7:3, “Sorrow is better than laughter.” Yet laughter is not necessarily foolishness, nor it is always sinful. It can be both, and so often it is both foolishness and sin. Yet remember that God laughs, and a child of God may laugh in the joy of the fulfillment of God’s covenant and of its promises. There is such a thing as covenant laughter.

“He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth: He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her Shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth.” Isaiah 53:7

Isaiah 6  I. The Awe-Inspiring Vision (Isaiah 6:1-4). “In the year of the death of the king, Uzziah, then I saw Adonai sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple.” 

The Spirit of Christ through the holy writer of the Proverbs instructs us in wisdom and understanding, the beginning of which is the fear of the Lord, according to the Spirit in Prov. 1:7 and Ps. 111:10. The wisdom of the Proverbs is at the same time simple, and profound. The proverbs give instruction in godliness and this over against wickedness and foolishness.