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two kingdoms

Video: Dual citizenship: Separating powers in Washington, DC

2023-08-17
By: admin
On: 17 Aug 2023
In: Christian Articles

The presentation by Rev. Dr Brian Lee of the United Reformed Churches in North America at the “Christianity & Liberal Democracy: Common and Separate” conference in Cape Town, South Africa, on 12 August 2023.Continue Reading

Video: Lessons for exiles on Main Street: the Huguenots as a Christian minority

2023-08-17
By: admin
On: 17 Aug 2023
In: Christian Articles

The presentation by Rev. Dr Dan Borvan of the United Reformed Churches in North America at the “Christianity & Liberal Democracy: Common and Separate” conference in Cape Town, South Africa, on 12 August 2023.Continue Reading

Video: ‘Christianity & liberal democracy’ conference in August 2023

2023-07-23
By: admin
On: 23 Jul 2023
In: Christian Articles

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church and state

‘Apartheid’ of church and state: Pilgrim politics for dual citizens

2023-01-22
By: admin
On: 22 Jan 2023
In: Christian Articles

Simon Jooste I am the pastor of a multi-cultural English-speaking Reformed church on the southern tip of Africa in a city called Cape Town. Since 1652, when the first Dutch settlers landed in the Cape, the church has struggled to fulfil the Great Commission amid common cultural enterprise with itsContinue Reading

Cover of The Gift of Life

Simon Jooste reviews The Gift of Life. Part 3: What kind of reformation?

2023-01-08
By: admin
On: 8 Jan 2023
In: Christian Articles

The tensions and inconsistencies that I have attempted to illustrate in this book review beg another question: What kind of reformation is The Gift of Life after? The answer Professor Vorster appears to provide is one of “flourishing personhood” that roots out of church and society the dehumanizing idols of racism, sexism,Continue Reading

cross

Pilgrim politics: recovering the cruciform in our creed

2022-09-23
By: admin
On: 23 Sep 2022
In: Christian Articles

On 21 September 2022, RCSS pastor Rev. Dr. Simon Jooste gave a presentation at Westminster Seminary in California on the proposal for his book, Pilgrim politics: recovering the cruciform in our creed. The book proposal is below. I. Book topic and rationale for its writing  The Apostle Paul once wroteContinue Reading

Open Bible

Engage the culture, but never at the cost of marginalising doctrine

2021-11-01
By: admin
On: 1 Nov 2021
In: Christian Articles

What unites […] various reactions to the collapse of Christendom is the marginalising of doctrine. Anyone who knows the history of Christendom, however, will not be surprised. As Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920) observed as part of his argument for the revision of Belgic Confession article 36, the church-state complex (Christendom) wasContinue Reading

Protestors

The Christian response in revolutionary times

2021-10-13
By: admin
On: 13 Oct 2021
In: Christian Articles

As Christians turn to social media to decry the new abuse of the day, a sad development is happening. Both of the current responses in crying for social justice or redeeming the state, are having the same sad effect on the church. We are being swallowed up in these pursuitsContinue Reading

two crowns

Two kingdoms: at stake is the distinction between law and Gospel

2021-08-03
By: admin
On: 3 Aug 2021
In: Christian Articles

Augustine taught the two kingdoms approach. This view made it possible for profound Christian involvement and influence in secular society, while at the same time never giving in to the naïve assumption that any human culture or nation is – or can become – truly righteous or good. For onlyContinue Reading

church and state

The revision of Belgic Confession article 36 on church and state

2021-06-24
By: admin
On: 24 Jun 2021
In: Christian Articles

Eugene Osterhaven called this “the most difficult and disputed” article in the confession. The desire to revise this article has existed in the Reformed churches in both the Netherlands and in the USA since the late 19th century, and revision has come in fits and starts. Further, there is noContinue Reading

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Sermon | 20 August 2023 First service | Genesis 32:3-33:4 | You’re wrestling with God, and He wants you to walk with a limp

Sermon | 20 August 2023 second service | Romans 5:12-21 | Heidelberg Catechism Q/A 60 | God heals our three fractures

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Pastor Simon Jooste is in the United States during September. Guest preachers will stand in for him. There will be only one service, at 9.30am, until he returns. There will be no Lord’s Supper. Children’s catechism will take place after the service.

 

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