Happy Thanksgiving!
A blessed and happy thanksgiving to all! Here's the thanksgiving prayer from the future URCNA hymnal . . . Our Sovereign God, who created all things for your pleasure and who gives to all life, breath, and every good thing, we praise you for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life. For rain and sunshine, in abundance and in lack, we acknowledge that our times are in your hands. You supply all of your creatures with your good gifts: the just and t

"The Darkness Is Passing Away" -- 1 John 2:3-11
The Third in a Series of Sermons on the Epistles of John The contrast between Christianity and false religion is as apparent as the contrast between light and darkness.  John the Apostle, must deal with certain men who have departed from the faith, and who were now denying that Jesus is God manifest in the flesh.  To expose their errors, John uses a simple contrast.  God is light.  Darkness cannot exist in his presence, because light casts out

Ursinus' Large and Small Catechisms Together with the Heidelberg Catechism
Several years ago, one of the members of Christ Reformed Church (Greg Myers) learned that Dr. Fred Klooster (who died in 2003) and John Medendorp had prepared translations of Ursinus' Large (1560-61) and Small (1561-62) catechisms.  Greg contacted Dr. Klooster, and got permission to put the large and small catechisms in parallel columns along with the Heidelberg Catechism. At the time, we made this document available as a PDF file on the old Christ Reformed web site.  When we moved to the new Christ

This Week's White Horse Inn
The Preached Word According to William Willimon, Christianity is kind of like a foreign language that one is not born with, but must be baptized into. Unfortunately, many preachers today are attempting to "translate" the faith into familiar and comfortable terms that people are used to, but the result, he argues, is that things get "lost in translation." William Willimon, author of Peculiar Speech: Preaching to the Baptized, joins the panel on this edition of

Who Said That?
"Christians don't steal or lie, they don't get divorced or have abortions.  If the Ten Commandments were followed by everyone we would be able to fire half the police force and in six months the prisons would be all half empty." Leave your guess in the comments section below.  Please, no google searches or cheating.  Answer to follow next week.