Archives for December 2016

An exciting day for RHB in Grand Rapids—we just received our shipment from the Netherlands of 10,000+ copies of the Family Worship Bible Guide, which presents rich devotional thoughts for private and family worship on all 1,189 chapters in the Bible, including searching questions to promote conversation in your family. I thank Michael Barrett, Jerry Bilkes, Paul Smalley, and others who joined me in producing this book. Pray that the Holy Spirit will mightily bless the daily use of this book, offered both in leather and in hardback, so that families will be more richly informed, reformed, and transformed by daily family worship.

I’m very excited that, with the help of the Dutch Reformed Translation Society, we at Reformation Heritage Books can finally bring into English print in 2 volumes Theodore VanderGroe’s (1705–1784) classic Heidelberg Catechism sermons, which were nearly as famous in his day for their doctrinal soundness and experiential warmth as Wilhelmus à Brakel’s The Christian’s Reasonable Service (4 vols.). Brakel excepted, this is the most major work ever translated from the Dutch Further Reformation.

Steeped in Scripture and pastoral in nature, these sermons promote a healthy form of spirituality; they contain both great comforts for believers and powerful warnings to unbelievers. Bartel Elshout has provided an excellent translation and I thoroughly enjoyed editing it.

If you or someone you know enjoys Brakel, or appreciates the Heidelberg Catechism, this would make a perfect year-end gift—a beautiful set of books for only $45.00 which now reads in English like it was written yesterday. You will love this renowned classic exposition of the Heidelberg Catechism written for lay people. Buy, read, and be edified.

Preaching in Brazil

To read and view pictures about my ministry trips from September through November, 2016, including visits to Mexico and Brazil, please download my pastoral letter here.