All Articles For Address at Annual Meeting of Reformed Free Publishing Association (RFPA)

members of Faith PRC in Jenison, Michigan Previous article in this series: February 2026, p. 186.   INTRODUCTION In our first article, we described a biblical approach to engaging with artificial intelligence (AI) based on the three-fold theme of knowledge, understanding, and wisdom. Together these concepts provide a helpful framework for thinking about any new technology we might encounter in our world. We also covered the knowledge component of this framework by defining what AI is, how it came into existence, and how it works functionally. In this article, we will cover the themes of understanding and wisdom in relation...

members of Faith PRC in Jenison, Michigan   * A version of this speech was given to the Reformed Free Publishing Association (RFPA), which gathered for its annual meeting at Southwest PRC on the evening of September 25, 2025. The version printed here has been condensed for clarity, but the full speech can be viewed via the RFPA YouTube channel at https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=pbtJO—b_zo. Digital readers can can access a reading list prepared by the authors by using the link here; print readers will have to wait for this issue to be posted on the RFPA-SB website. INTRODUCTION If you have...

Science teacher in Covenant Christian High School, and member of Hope PRC in Grand Rapids, Michigan   The following is adapted from the speech the author gave at the RFPA’s annual meeting on September 26, 2024 at Southwest Protestant Reformed Church.   Dear friends and supporters of the RFPA, To us whom God has graciously given the gift of faith, comes the exhortation of the Word of God to read and to give attendance to doctrine; to grow in grace and knowledge of God; to get wisdom. God has given us means to grow in grace and in knowledge of...

The following is an edited transcript of a speech given by Rev. Daniel Kleyn at the annual Reformed Free Publishing Association meeting on September 28, 2023, in Grandville PRC. Rev. Kleyn served as a missionary in the Philippines for more than 14 years.   Reformed literature, specifically Protestant Reformed literature, and more especially the literature produced by the Reformed Free Publishing Association (RFPA), has served the spread of the Reformed gospel in the Philippines in significant ways. Recently I asked some of our Filipino brothers and sisters to comment on the role Reformed literature played in their journey to and...

The reading of good, spiritually edifying literature is a subject that has been addressed a number of times at the RFPA’s annual meeting. Over the course of past six years, several speeches have been given on the topic of reading. There are good reasons for that. The RFPA’s mission is to publish sound Reformed literature for the Reformed believer. The reading of good, spiritually edifying books is important for the spiritual well-being of our homes and churches. We also need encouragement to read. There is an observable decline in reading today. This continues to be a concern to the RFPA....

Previous article in this series: January 1, 2019, p. 165 Translators In addition to those already referred to, let me tell you a little about some of our other translators so that you can appreciate why we believe them to be trustworthy. Let me begin with some of our European helpers. A Danish pastor who had to leave the state Lutheran church because of the truth. He greatly loves RFPA material. A blogger in northern France who is seeking to counteract heresies concerning justification from the New Perspective on Paul and John Piper circles. A Hungarian doctor of law whose...

Previous article in this series: December 15, 2018, p. 141. Translations A number of people ask about the translations that are on the Covenant PRC website (www.cprf.co.uk/languages.htm), so let me tell you first how this foreign language witness started. The translations began in large part as a response to criticism. It was said, scurrilously, that our congregation in Northern Ireland was merely Dutch or merely American, as if God’s truth were nationalistic and not heavenly! So we decided to demonstrate the catholicity of our apostolic faith and spread the Word further. A key person in this is Felipe Sabino, a...

Default position The typical professing evangelical Christian in our day, sadly, is a long way from being able to confess the Reformed faith as summed in our “Three Forms of Unity” and become a member in one of our Reformed churches. In all likelihood, he (or she) holds some Arminian ideas. Even if he calls himself a Calvinist, he probably thinks that God loves everybody, that Christ died for all men head for head (at least in some sense), and that God earnestly desires to save everybody. Romans 9 does not come into it! In eschatology, our representative evangelical is...

Speech at the annual Reformed Free Publishing Association meeting, held in Southwest PRC on September 28, 2017. Introduction This year, AD 2017, is the 500th anniversary of the onset of the Reformation of the church in 1517. It is, therefore, a historic year, a year of commemoration. Jesus Christ reformed His church by restoring to her the gospel of salvation by grace. Since the very heart of the gospel is the doctrine of justification by faith alone, Christ enlightened and emboldened first the Reformer, Martin Luther, and then all the Reformers, including John Calvin, to see and proclaim justification by...

This is the second part of the text of the speech that Rev. Engelsma delivered at the RFPA Annual Meeting on September 29, 2016. Previous article can be found in the January 1, 2017 issue, p. 158. The Fact of Our Witness Earlier we examined where we are, where we have been, and where we are going with the sexual revolution. Now, what is our calling in light of these developments? There is a calling that comes first and foremost to the instituted church, and that is to continue to preach and teach the Word of God with all boldness....