Now, That is Amazing
Dear Brothers, If someone would ask us the two most challenging places for us to preach, many of us would list the seminary chapel and the congregation where we grew up. A key challenge in ...
The Stronger Man
Dear Brothers, Is this the kind of experience a supervising pastor would plan to give his vicar on his first day of training: allowing that student pastor to hear respected church leaders insinuate that the ...
Preach the Word – May/June 2015
Volume 18, Number 5. Pastor Tom Westra highlights the importance of Christ's active obedience and how that shapes the rest of the elements of the sermon. A Clean Set of Clothes In place of our ...
The Far Greater Protection
Dear Brothers, It is sad that Ascension Day is for so many the forgotten church festival (perhaps even passing too easily from our own radar screens?). There's the glorious Jn 14:1-4 ascension truth Josua ...
Didymus’s Twin
Dear Brothers, I think poor Thomas gets a bum rap. There's not one of the Eleven who believed without seeing. Luke reports that not one of them believed the women's eye witness testimony. None ...
Preach the Word – March/April 2015
Volume 18, Number 4. Here Pastor Tom Westra explains how telling stories can enhance our telling of The Story. What's Your Story? In the retelling of The Story, you are swept into it, and in ...
Review: A Place for Weakness
A Place for Weakness is a book all about being prepared for suffering. In fact, the subtitle to the book Preparing Yourself for Suffering seems to be a more appropriate title. The idea for ...
Zeal for the Smallest Temple
Dear Brothers, "Zeal for your house will consume me" (John 2:17). Were the disciples stunned when they saw animals bleating and coins rolling? The Spirit doesn't say, but John does tell us Psalm 69 ...
Review: Pilgrim Theology
What little I knew about Michael Horton before reading this book led me to think that here was one of those voices in the Reformed camp that might have been working to heal the divide ...
Matthew as Story
In the three-year cycle of the ILCW lectionary, Year A is the year of Matthew. Since Year A has now ended and we are well into Year B, this review is perhaps a year too ...