Living in Truth. Unmasking the lies of our postmodern culture (2)

Living in Truth. Unmasking the lies of our postmodern culture (2)

Materialism versus pilgrimage In pleading for the traditional family in this postmodern society, one of the major obstacles I encounter is the materialism and individualism that has so thoroughly permeated society. In postmodern thinking, the basic unit of society is assumed to be not the family but the individual. This individualism characterized Western society even [...]

Living in Truth. Unmasking the lies of our postmodern culture (1)

Living in Truth. Unmasking the lies of our postmodern culture (1)

Introduction Our society is one typified as postmodern: it is a society that has left modernism behind it, at least in part. Modernism had its roots in the Renaissance and attained its full flowering in the Enlightenment. The philosopher Immanuel Kant described the Enlightenment as manʼs liberation from the dependency in which he had been [...]

Boeken die mij hebben gevormd

Boeken die mij hebben gevormd

Er zijn boeken die mij hebben gevormd en een diepe indruk op mij hebben gemaakt. Boeken die door Gods genade in samenhang met de Bijbel als Zijn onfeilbare Woord mijn leven richting hebben gege-ven. Ga ik terug naar mijn kinderjaren dan denk ik aan De Christenreis van John Bunyan. Bunyan tekent het leven van een [...]

Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Confession of Christ Today

Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Confession of Christ Today

Introduction On July 27, 1945—over 75 days after the surrender of Germany—an elderly couple in Berlin was listening to a BBC broadcast. One of their sons had perished in the First World War; the life of a second son, and those of two sons-in-law, had been claimed by the war just past. They were still [...]

The Hairstyle and the Head-covering of Women in the Congregation

The Hairstyle and the Head-covering of Women in the Congregation

Introduction In America we have since a few years the so called head covering movement. This movement wants to restore the apostolic practice to women and girls practice the head covering during corporate worship. The website of the head-covering movement is:http://www.headcoveringmovement.com. I heartily agree with the aim of this movement. When the former century began, all over [...]

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield and the Nashville Statement

Rosaria Champagne  Butterfield and the Nashville Statement

In 2017 the Nashville Statement on the biblical teaching of sexuality was accepted by the Southern Baptist Convention and afterwards signed by theologians, pastors and laypeople who published on this theme of all shades of Protestantism. It's aim is that churches and Christian adhere to the biblical teaching on sexuality or repent when they drifted [...]

Can we tolerate homosexual relationships on the basis that polygamy was tolerated under the Old Testament dispensation?

Can we tolerate homosexual relationships on the basis that polygamy was tolerated under the Old Testament dispensation?

How are we to evaluate it that appeals are being made to the fact that polygamy was accepted under the old dispensation to cast homosexual relationships as acceptable? We have to do here with a stance which regards homosexual relationships as still sinful but which fudges the issue of whether or not this sin is [...]