Johannes Weslianus

This morning, Mrs. Rebecca VanDoodewaard, at The Christian Pundit pointed me to an excellent essay by Daniel Defoe entitled, “On the Education of Women.” I would highly recommend this short and thoughtful essay, especially for fathers of daughters. Defoe writes: And, without partiality, a woman of sense and manners is the finest and most delicate [...]

“Love is the congenial frame of heart of God’s children, wrought of God whereby their heart is engaged with desires to have harmonious fellowship with their neighbor, and to seek their welfare as well as their own.” — Wilhelmus à Brakel

The National Association of Evangelicals approved a resolution at its semiannual meeting calling for verifiable multilateral reduction in nuclear weapons Two decades after the end of the Cold War, thousands of nuclear missiles remain on alert, posing a remote but deadly threat to our survival. By honoring our treaty commitments and working toward reducing the [...]

I will be travelling over the next week and a half. So, I will not be blogging for the next two weeks. Thanks for your continuing visits, interest, and support.

The White family lives on the northern edge of the famous Black Hills. It is a place of extraordinary beauty. The mouth of Spearfish Canyon is only a couple of miles from our church. Yesterday, some of my family and a few members of church hiked up to devil’s bathtub. I thought I would share [...]

Dear friends, I have decided to take a summer sabbatical from blogging. This does not mean that I will not post at all. It means that my blogging will be much more irregular. Everything is fine. I’m just taking a break. I plan on posting regularly again in September. Your friend, Wes

“[Eve] was not made out of [Adam’s] head to top him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side, to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved.” — Matthew Henry HT: Patrick’s Pensees.

By TE Brian Carpenter We interrupt the play-by-play report of the General Assembly from areas with sunny, warm beaches (pictures of which TE White has occasionally used to torment those of us who are stuck at home) to bring you a report from Western South Dakota. Nothing is happening here. And it’s 50 degrees today. [...]

Psalm 127:1 says that unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. As in all things, the Lord’s blessing is the only way to secure the defense of our “city.” But he uses the watchmen. I’m thankful for the watchmen who watch over our nation. Many of them we will never [...]