Chad Van Dixhoorn

Nov 17, 2024 | theaquilareport.com | Chad Van Dixhoorn

Help us to be a church that remembers the fourth commandment. Help us by your Spirit to be careful to keep this one commandment, so that we might better keep all the rest of your commandments. Help us to see that we are stronger together when we spend more of our day in worship, more of it in fellowship, more of it resting and reading so that we might be better equipped and oriented for the work of our callings and our witness before the world.

Nov 2, 2024 | theaquilareport.com | Chad Van Dixhoorn

Consider having a missionary speak or have an interesting ministry update 30 minutes before the evening service. State that there will be a 15 minute psalm- or hymn-sing before the evening service. Do this once a month. State that there will be a 30 minute ice-cream social before the evening service. Do this on a different Sunday of the month. Do you have an evening service at your church?

Mar 19, 2024 | christoverall.com | Chad Van Dixhoorn

One of the standout features of the Protestant Reformation, and one that is not discussed often, was the making of confessions. The sixteenth century Reformation had two main branches, the Lutheran and the Reformed. Not one Protestant confession existed at the beginning of the 1500s. Over 90 Reformed confessions and catechisms—not including Lutheran ones—had been printed by the end of the 1500s.

Feb 15, 2024 | crossway.org | Carl R. Trueman |Chad Van Dixhoorn

Creeds Are Good and NecessaryMy conviction that creeds and confessions are a good and necessary part of healthy, biblical church life rests on a host of different arguments and convictions; but, at root, there are four basic presuppositions to which I hold that must be true for the case for confessions to be a sound one. These are as follows:1.

Feb 4, 2024 | crossway.org | Jonathan Leeman |Chad Van Dixhoorn |Emily Van Dixhoorn

Authority of Counsel vs. Authority of CommandA husband’s authority is what I would characterize as an authority of counsel, not an authority of command. In both kinds of authority, there is the right to make commands, and the person under is called to submit. So wives are called to submit in the same way children are called to submit. But the difference between authority of counsel and authority of command is that there’s no enforcement mechanism, no discipline mechanism for a husband.