Five articles from five issues, 2001 to 2024
Burnett opens Ephesians 1 and finds Paul piling blessing on blessing: chosen before the foundation of the world, predestined in love, sealed for an inheritance. The piece sits with the dizzying generosity of Paul's grammar and asks what it means that our calling is grounded that deep.
What makes a Reformed church Reformed? Small begins with Peter DeVries's wry novelistic portrait of a Calvinist boyhood and works toward a serious answer: shared Protestant emphases, yes, but with distinctive accents on Scripture, election, the priesthood of all believers, and worship as covenant response.
Partee opens with the wry observation that doctrine unites and reason divides, then surveys the rubble Reformed Christians have made of their own family identity. The piece is part lament, part invitation: an honest reckoning with what's been neglected and what still might be retrieved.
What does Revelation say about the city that dazzles and then falls? Mark Atkinson reads chapters 17 through 19 as the judgment of the great whore, the destruction of Babylon and the wedding banquet of the Lamb, with Christ going to battle armed only with his Word.
How does a believer give thanks in the middle of a long and terminal illness? Deborah and Lyle Thorpe’s prayer of thanksgiving and praise, drawn from Scripture, rests in God’s sovereign care and fixes its eyes on the unseen things that last forever.
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