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The truth central to all eschatology is the second coming of Jesus Christ itself, what the Greek of the New Testament promises as the parousia, literally the presence (of Jesus Christ). All the other aspects of the biblical doctrine of the coming of Jesus are subordinate to this coming, either as leading to it, accompanying it, or proceeding from it. Therefore, the proper subtitle of this second volume of The Church's Hope: The Reformed Doctri...

Ha pasado más de un cuarto de siglo desde que enseñé el "mini-curso" sobre educación cristiana reformada que result en este libro. Me di cuenta que tan largo ha sido este tiempo cuando inserté "y nietos" en la dedicatoria de esta edición. Sin embargo, nada ha cambiado con respecto a la naturaleza o la necesidad de escuelas cristianas para los hijos del pacto. La decisión de la Reformed Free Publishing Association [Asociación libre de publicaci...

The statement in Article 28 of the Belgic Confession that all believers are "in duty bound to join and unite themselves with" an instituted church that has the three marks of the true church has proved to be controversial in North America and Europe. Engelsma's recent book, Bound to Join, addresses the doctrine of church membership and has received criticism from both expected and unexpected critics. This book answers those critics, defending ...

I Remember Herman Hoeksema consists of Professor David J. Engelsma's memories of Herman Hoeksema. Engelsma grew up hearing Hoeksema preach and was Hoeksema's student in the Theological School of the Protestant Reformed Churches.This book was originally published as a series of articles for young people in Beacon Lights magazine. The intent of the articles was to show something of the man whom many know only as an author and theologian.

After a fifteen-year hiatus, and fourteen other published titles, Prof. David J. Engelsma continues the Unfolding Covenant History series, a covenantal exposition of the Old Testament.The Old Testament history covered in this volume is extensive, covering the account of the life and significance for the covenant of Samuel, Saul, David, and Solomon. This is the history recorded in 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 Kings 1-11, 1 Chronicles 10-29, and 2 Chronicl...

This book is a critique of Abraham Kuyper's cultural theory of a common grace of God and of the grandiose mission of this grace, and of those who confess the theory and evidently intend to promote it so that it accomplishes the end Kuyper claimed. The book exposes Kuyper's biblical basis for his theory and its practical mission.The first and main part of the book is a much-expanded version of the public lecture given in Grand Rapids, Michigan,...

Although this book's controversial contention that marriage is an unbreakable bond for life gets the most attention today (which is a testimony both to the sad state of the churches today and to the necessity of the book), the book is a mainly positive explanation and application of the Bible's teaching about marriage in all of marriage's aspects.Fundamentally, Marriage The Mystery of Christ and the Church is a Reformed pastor's instruction an...

AD 2017 marks the five-hundredth anniversary of the Reformation of the church of Jesus Christ. In 1517 the Reformer Martin Luther affixed the ninety-five theses to the door of the church in Wittenberg, Germany, the act by which Jesus Christ began his reformation of his church. Essential to this Reformation was the gospel-truth of justification by faith alone. This book on justification is intended by the Reformed Free Publishing Association an...

Some professing Christians deny the necessity of church membership. Others join a church for unsubstantial reasons or leave a church for trivial, often selfish reasons. Many remain members of apostatizing churches because of family or traditional ties. Some Christians find themselves in areas or countries where no true church exists or can be formed. They ask, sometimes in anguish, "What must we do?"Seemingly forgotten today is the truth that ...

With the publication of volume two is completed a Reformed, full-scale, commentary on the Belgic Confession, of which there are only a few in English today. This book is not a summary of the Confession, nor a compilation of sermons loosely based on the Confession, but a commentary. It explains the Confession, article by article, doctrine by doctrine.Volume two begins with the Confession's opening article on the doctrine of salvation, continues...

Prosperous Wicked and Plagued Saints is a commentary on Psalm 73 that sets forth the truth of God's goodness to his people in their trouble and of God's curse of the wicked in their prosperity. In light of the teaching of Psalm 73, the book takes issue with a theory about earthly prosperity and earthly woe that, for all its strange popularity with Reformed and evangelical Christians, only intensifies the believer's temptation to doubt in the h...

An orthodox commentary on the confession, that is, one that is in wholehearted accord with the teachings of the confession, and resolutely faithful to them, will be profitable to Reformed Christians and churches in the twenty-first century, not only for invaluable instruction in the Reformed faith, but also for the maintenance and defense of Reformed orthodoxy.Founded on holy scripture, the Belgic Confession determines sound doctrine for Refor...

Many of the conservative Reformed and Presbyterian churches in North America have been, and still are, troubled by the heretical theology that calls itself the federal vision, which has arisen within the bosom of these churches.The federal vision denies the central doctrine of the sixteenth-century Reformation of the church and a cardinal truth of the biblical gospel: justification by faith alone.Some of these churches have responded by reaffi...

The Battle for Sovereign Grace in the Covenant recounts much of the gripping history of the schism of 1953 within the Protestant Reformed Churches (PRC), the culmination of the hard fought battle for sovereign grace in the covenant. The book includes new, important details that have not been previously published and also provides the history of the controversial adoption by the PRCA of the Declaration of Principles, the document that in some w...

Better to Marry provides straightforward, practical instruction for single and married believers alike, taken directly from the classic Bible passages on sex and marriage. Two appendices treat the remarriage and prohibition of the remarriage of the "innocent party.

The truth defended in this book is sovereign, particular grace in the preaching of the gospel. The book contends that this truth is fundamental to the theology of the Reformed faith in its entirety, that is, to scripture's gospel of salvation by grace alone and to the authoritative confession of the gospel by the Reformed Creed, the Canons of Dordt.Hyper-Calvinism and the Call of the Gospel refutes the charge against the truth that is hyper-ca...