Dr. P. de Vries – artikelen en opinie
'Uw goedertierenheid is beter dan het leven' (Psalm 63)
Who were the Puritans? What did they seek to achieve? The Puritans were British preachers living in the second part of the sixteenth century and in the seventeenth century whose desire was to promote a God glorifying piety; a piety of the heart that sets us in flame for God and his glory; a practical [...]
When in 1843 the Free Church of Scotland was formed (the Disruption), T. J. Crawford belonged to the evangelical minority who stayed in the Church Scotland. He served as professor in divinity in the University of Edinburgh from 1860 tot 1875. The Banner of Truth republished in 2016 one of his mayor work, namely The Mysteries [...]
In the series New Studies in Biblical Theology J. Gary Millar, principal of Queensland Theological College, Australia, informs us about prayer in the Bible. Millar starts that the first explicit reference to prayer in the Old Testament can be found in Genesis 4. In Gen. 4:25 we read that people began to call on the [...]
Martyn Lloyd Jones (1899-1081) was one of the leading British evangelicals of the twentieth century. Trained as a medical doctor he first served a small congregation in Wales. On a local level a revival was seen under his ministry there. From 1939 to 1968 he was the pastor of Westminster Chapel, London. In the past [...]
Why should we believe that – as Jesus our Lord and Savior – that the Bible is the mouth of God. In From the Mouth of God Sinclair Ferguson, a former minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Colombia, South Carolina and a former professor of systematic theology at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, answers this question. [...]
Personal introduction By the grace of God I was brought up in a God fearing family. My father who was a engineer was a lover of the writings of the Dutch practical writers, the Puritans and Scottish theologians as Thomas Boston Ralph and Ebener Erskine. Also Luther and Kohlbrugge (the latter is less well known [...]
Jakob Jocz was a Messianic Jew – or what was before World War II the usual designation: a Hebrew Christian - of the third generation. Both his parents and grandparents were Jewish believers. He was born on 18th of October, 1906 in Vilnius, Lithuania, as the son of cabinetmaker; Lithuania being then a part of [...]
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