I just received 1000 tracts I ordered printed on business cards. They have a QR code on the front linking to a website with the gospel message. I paid € 0,04 / tract. It is easy to design your own and order them from a business in your area making them an easy way to plant some seeds. I plan on leaving them behind at various places and handing some of them out if I get the chance.

Remember to pray and meditate brethren. Let us persevere in these things till the end.

A squirrel is superior to a glutton, for at least a squirrel saves its food for winter instead of indulging immediately upon finding it. God has nothing positive to say about this sin. Numbers 11.

There is a healthy balance the Church must find between emphasis on the Covenant and emphasis on personal holiness. Oftentimes, the theological far right goes too far in emphasizing personal holiness, which leads to an “every man for himself” situation, where the Church and Baptism are seen as less important, and a personal conversion experience and personal holiness are put above them. These churches, while being Reformed, will often grow friendly with Particular Baptists—which makes sense because of their theological emphasis.

One, however, can also go too far in emphasizing the Covenant, where it ends up being all that matters. As long as one is a good-standing member of a church, one can be assured of one’s salvation, they say. The Parable of the Net, however, makes it clear this is not so.

Don't fall for the false dichotomy of liberalism - national socialism controversialist provocateurs like Corey Mahler like to put forth. Both ideologies are incompatible with holy Writ and Confession.

Job XIX

"O blessed Lord Jesus, who has offered complete satisfaction for our sins by Thy bitter passion, guard us from eternal condemnation at the last!"
~St. Johann Gerhard

Romans 8:34 KJV
[34] "Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us."

How can we persist in sin when the wounded glorified risen Christ-man actively prays for us to his heavenly father?

Als je Nederlands bent (of kunt) raad ik deze prekenserie aan omtrent de Dordtse Leerregels.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWn4QHoYXsEesdNrv6jTKEr196SE10v9W

Every Sunday part of the Catechism is posted. This week we have Lord's day 29 from the Heidelberg catechism.

Lord’s Day 29

78.Q. Are the bread and wine changed into the real body and blood of Christ?

A. No. Just as the water of baptism is not changed into Christ’s blood and does not itself wash away sins but is simply God’s sign and assurance, so too the bread of the Lord’s supper is not changed into the actual body of Christ even though it is called the body of Christ in keeping with the nature and language of sacraments.
Genesis 17:10,11; Exodus 12:11,13; Matthew 26:26-29; 1 Corinthians 10:1-4,16,17; 1 Corinthians 11:26-28; Ephesians 5:26; Titus 3:5.

79.Q. Why then does Christ call the bread His body, and the cup His blood, or the new covenant in His blood? (Paul uses the words, a participation in Christ’s body and blood.)

A. Christ has good reason for these words. He wants to teach us that as bread and wine nourish our temporal life, so too His crucified body and poured-out blood truly nourish our souls for eternal life. But more important, He wants to assure us, by this visible sign and pledge, that we, through the Holy Spirit’s work, share in His true body and blood as surely as our mouths receive these holy signs in His remembrance, and that all of His suffering and obedience are as definitely ours as if we personally had suffered and paid for our sins.
John 6:51,55; Romans 6:5-11; 1 Corinthians 10:16,17; 1 Corinthians 11:26.

To live a moral and upstanding life amongst the ruins, this is our duty. We are the last men of the west. Let us stand tall and persevere and endure 'till the end.

This new channel is doing an awesome job in protestant apologetics : https://youtube.com/@canonandcreed?feature=shared

"My son recently asked me why short-distance athletic sprints are always won by black men."

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/the-pactum-blog/pca-arp-and-rpcna-finally-stand-up-for-white-sprinters-facing-racism

Every Sunday part of the Catechism is posted. This week we have Lord's day 30 from the Heidelberg catechism.

Lord’s Day 30

80.Q. How does the Lord’s Supper differ from the Roman Catholic Mass?
A. The Lord’s Supper declares to us that our sins have been completely forgiven through the one sacrifice of Jesus Christ which He Himself finished on the cross once for all. It also declares to us that the Holy Spirit grafts us into Christ, who with His very body is now at the right hand of the Father where He wants us to worship Him. But the Mass teaches that the living and the dead do not have their sins forgiven through the suffering of Christ unless Christ is still offered for them daily by the priests. It also teaches that Christ is bodily present in the form of bread and wine where Christ is therefore to be worshiped. Thus the Mass is basically nothing but a denial of the one sacrifice and suffering of Jesus Christ and a condemnable idolatry.
Matthew 6:20,21; John 4:21-24; John 19:30; Acts 7:55,56; 1 Corinthians 6:17; 1 Corinthians 10:16,17; Philippians 3:20; Colossians 3:1-3; Hebrews 1:3; Hebrews 7:27; Hebrews 8:1; Hebrews 9:12,25,26; Hebrews 10:10-18.

81.Q. Who are to come to the Lord’s Table?
A. Those who are displeased with themselves because of their sins, but who nevertheless trust that their sins are pardoned and that their continuing weakness is covered by the suffering and death of Christ, and who also desire more and more to strengthen their faith and to lead a better life. Hypocrites and those who are unrepentant, however, eat and drink judgment on themselves.
1 Corinthians 10:19-22;  Corinthians 11:26-32.

82.Q. Are those to be admitted to the Lord’s Supper who show by what they say and do that they are unbelieving and ungodly?
A. No, that would dishonour God’s covenant and bring down God’s anger upon the entire congregation. Therefore, according to the instruction of Christ and his apostles, the Christian church is duty-bound to exclude such people, by the official use of the keys of the Kingdom, until they reform their lives.
Psalm 50:14-16; Isaiah 1:11-17; 1 Corinthians 11:17-32

Another excellent banger by Canon and Creed : https://youtu.be/trV9DFDPvRk?si=He8IXBmZpDt5nilX

Infidels will often appeal to old testament verses about 'loving the foreigner' to justify flooding the Evening Land with non-Europeans. They don't realise old testament Israel was the Church and the Israelites the partakers of the Covenant of Grace. When we apply these verses to the Church today the meaning, I am convinced, is much closer to welcoming non-believers in the Church rather than that it would have anything to do with welcoming foreign people into our nations.

6 juillet 1415 : martyre de Jan Hus

Every Sunday part of the Catechism is posted. This week we have Lord's day 31 from the Heidelberg catechism.

Lord’s Day 31

83.Q. What are the keys of the Kingdom?

A. The preaching of the holy gospel and Christian discipline toward repentance. Both preaching and discipline open the Kingdom of Heaven to believers and close it to unbelievers.
Matthew 16:19; John 20:22,23.

84.Q. How does preaching the gospel open and close the Kingdom of Heaven?

A. According to the command of Christ: The Kingdom of Heaven is opened by proclaiming and publicly declaring to each and every believer, that as often as he accepts the gospel promise in true faith, God, because of what Christ has done, truly forgives all his sins. The Kingdom of Heaven is closed, however, by proclaiming and publicly declaring to unbelievers and hypocrites that, as long as they do not repent, the anger of God and eternal condemnation rest on them. God’s judgment, both in this life and in the life to come, is based on this gospel testimony.
Matthew 16:19; John 3:31-36; John 20:21-23.

85.Q. How is the Kingdom of Heaven closed and opened by Christian discipline?

A. According to the command of Christ: If anyone, though called a Christian, professes unchristian teachings or lives an unchristian life, if after repeated brotherly counsel, he refuses to abandon his errors and wickedness, and, if after being reported to the church, that is, to its officers, he fails to respond also to their admonition - such a one the officers exclude from the Christian fellowship by withholding the sacraments from him, and God himself excludes him from the Kingdom of Christ. Such a person, when he promises and demonstrates genuine reform, is received again as a member of Christ and of his church.
Matthew 18:15-20; Luke 15:20-24; 1 Corinthians 5:3-5,11-13; 2 Corinthians 2:6-11; 2 Thessalonians 3:14,15.

Today we sang Psalm 8: 1,2,3,6 at church. This is a recording of it. This is some classic Dutch Reformed heritage.

1.

HEER, onze Heer, hoe heerlijk en verheven
hebt Gij uw naam op aarde uitgeschreven -
machtige God, Gij die uw majesteit
ten hemel over ons hebt uitgebreid.

2.

Wel doet de hemel hoog uw glorie blinken,
maar in de mond van kindren doet Gij klinken
uw machtig heil, zo maakt G' uw vijand stil
en doet uw haters buigen voor uw wil.

3.

Aanschouw ik 's nachts het kunstwerk van uw handen,
de maan, de duizend sterren die daar branden,
wat is de mens, dat Gij aan hem gedenkt,
het mensenkind, dat Gij hem aandacht schenkt ?

6.

HEER, onze Heer, hoe heerlijk en verheven
hebt Gij uw naam op aarde uitgeschreven.
Heer, onze God, hoe vol van majesteit
hebt Gij uw naam op aarde uitgebreid.