Dear Friend in Christ, In Isaiah 52:7, we read, “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, ‘Your God reigns.’” This month, we are delighted to introduce John Menton, who hasContinue Reading
Address by Dr. James Berry at the conference “Justification by Faith Alone: Recovering Law and Gospel” in Cape Town, South Africa, on 21 June 2025. Since the Fall, humankind has grappled with the tragic reality of our fallenness. This fallenness is most fundamentally experienced as shame—the recognition of a coreContinue Reading
Address by Rev. Dr. Simon Jooste at the conference “Justification by Faith Alone: Recovering Law and Gospel” in Cape Town, South Africa, on 21 June 2025. Since Adam broke God’s covenant of strict justice, God has made merciful provision for humanity to live on under divine standards of justice, enforcedContinue Reading
Address by Rev. Dr. David Noe at the conference “Justification by Faith Alone: Recovering Law and Gospel” in Cape Town, South Africa, on 20 June 2025. Since 381 AD, the church universal has with one voice confessed our belief in “one baptism for the remission of sins”. Like virtually allContinue Reading
Address by Rev. Dr. Dan Borvan at the conference “Justification by Faith Alone: Recovering Law and Gospel” in Cape Town, South Africa, on 20 June 2025. Martin Luther and John Calvin held divergent views concerning the Epistle of James relative to the doctrine of justification, particularly in relation to theContinue Reading
[. . .] There are real problems with ignoring original context and original intent. First, we effectively lose the Scriptures. If the Scriptures really mean what they mean to this reader and that reader (no matter if those readings contradict each other), then there is no text of Scripture. TheContinue Reading
Thank you for worshipping with us. We, the consistory of RCSS, hope to welcome you to the Lord’s Table as soon as possible. But first we would like to get to know you better. We believe and confess that the Lord’s Supper is a weighty personal and communal participation inContinue Reading
RCSS Pastor Rev. Dr Simon Jooste gave two presentations at the Ratio Christi Conference in Cape Town on 3 August 2024. The title of the first presentation is “God’s justice is not ‘social justice’: an apologetics perspective”. Social justice movements have swept the globe, leaving many Christians to believe thatContinue Reading
This is an edited transcript of a Heidelminicast by Dr. R. Scott Clark. […] The very category of “replacement” is foreign to Reformed theology because it assumes a Dispensational Israelio-centric way of thinking about the history of redemption […] It assumes that a temporary national people was, in fact, intendedContinue Reading
By Simon Jooste Reformed Christians understand the significance of the Reformation and its effect on global Christianity. In Africa, there was an extended series of Reformed missions from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries. But this was not the first time orthodox doctrine was taught on the continent. AfricaContinue Reading