God, Grace, and Main Str.

What does Reformed theology look like on Main Street? The doctrine that God saves sinners means something for the pedestrians to the automobilists and all Christians who want to know how to live in the world.

Rev. Dick writes about current topics in the Reformed community, doctrine, and devotionals.

  • The Singing Sectarians (3)

    … be filled with the Spirit, 19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, 20 giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ…(Ephesians 5: 18-20)  Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly…

  • Herbert’s Corner

                    What? If only in a little corner of my little blog would like to spend a little time from time to time.  The corner will be for truth’s sake, but poetically speaking.  Call it, humbly, “a corner on truth”, though rounded with rhyme and meter and figure, and whatever words can do to put the logos and…

  • 2024: Fear Not Little Flock!

    Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” (Luke 12:32) In the sermon on the mount Jesus heaps reason upon reason to show why God’s people should not worry or fear with regard to anything on this earth. Consider only Luke’s account. Jesus says there that…

  • Thoughts God Thinks Toward Us

    Comfort for the new year…

  • The Unspeakable Gift 

    The Unspeakable Gift 

    Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift (2 Corinthians 9:15)    First Corinthians 9 speaks more than any other chapter in Scripture to the truth of Christian giving.  It is a case study.  Poor saints were in Jerusalem.  A collection had been arranged for them already a year ago (cf. I Corinthians 8).  The Corinthians are praised for their zeal…

  • The Singing Sectarians and A Mighty Fortress (2)

    The Singing Sectarians and A Mighty Fortress (2)

    Strict Psalmody?

  • The Singing Sectarians (1)

    At first there was one—one sect, that is.  I refer to the Reformed Protestant churches.  These churches hopped out of the Protestant Reformed churches a few years ago.   The first sect is now two.  Another sect has hopped out of the first.  As is inevitable with sects, this sect has become sectier. It might have appeared, at first, that these…

  • “The God of Love had a really bad week”

    (The following is a slightly edited version of an essay written a few years ago by me in Grace Life, our church magazine)             That is not my title, nor my theology.  It is the title of an article published a few years ago by CNN’s Diana Butler Bass.  And it is her theology. Her title.  Her theology. Butler…

  • Sect One, the Good Christian Schools, and He who Defines the Terms…

    In defense of the novel proposition that “the Christian school (and the use of it) is a demand of the covenant,” Mr. Andy Lanning speaks often of “togetherness.” So Lanning: “the essence of the Christian school is the togetherness of the endeavor to instruct the covenant seed. The Christian school is the covenant parents’ and…

  • Of Sects, Schools, and Togetherness

    Two things, two sects jumped recently out of the Protestant Reformed Churches.  The main reason for the jump was a perceived compromise by the PRC of the doctrine of justification by faith alone.  Even a cursory examination of the alleged compromise, including the many protests brought to the broader ecclesiastical assemblies and the decisions made by these…