Word of Salvation – Vol. 25 No. 28 – April 1979   My Child, I Am Rich... What Shall I Give You??   Sermon by Rev. A. I. De Graaf, B.D. on Proverbs 30:7-9 Scripture reading: Luke 11:1-13 Psalter Hymnal: 408; 265; 137; 444   Brothers and Sisters, Boys and Girls, Young People, Congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, Each year is a year of the Lord Anno Domini. It's His to give, with all that's in and on it. And so, whether thinking of the present or about the future, a Christian can and should GO TO THE OWNER OF...

Word of Salvation – Vol. 26 No. 44 – August 1981   Lonely Deep Down   Sermon by Rev. John Goris on Proverbs 14:10 Scripture Readings: Romans 12:9-21; Proverbs 14:1-13 Psalter Hymnal: 303:1,2,4; 288; 104; 458; 492.   We have a saying,     Distributed joy is doubled joy,    Distributed grief is halved grief. That is true..... to some extent, but there is also a point where grief is so intensely personal that it cannot be fully shared. We could say the same thing of joy. There is a point at which our text speaks:        "The heart knows its own bitterness,...

Word of Salvation – Vol. 26 No. 42 – August 1981   Guidance (Straight Paths)   Sermon by Rev. John W. Westendorp on Proverbs 3:5,6 Scripture Reading: Acts 16:6-10, 16-34; Proverbs 3:1–12 Psalter Hymnal: 407; 463 (after the sermon);                                          249 (after the law); 452; 231   Something that every Christian sooner or later has a problem with is the whole matter of GUIDANCE... God's leading, and knowing God's will for us. We believe that God has a plan for our lives... for each one of us. We also believe that true joy and blessing comes into our lives only then......

Word of Salvation – Vol. 34 No. 18 – May 1989   The Liberated Woman   Sermon: by Rev. M. C. De Graaf on Proverbs 31 (For Mothers Day) Reading: Ruth 3:1-18, Proverbs 31 Singing: 317, 13, 332, 399. Brothers and Sisters, At first glance this passage here in Proverbs 31, dealing as it does with motherhood and the noble wife, seems right out of step with our age, doesn't it?  Rather dated. Today, everywhere we turn, we see people attacking what we have always considered to be the TRADITIONAL role of women in society!  They are reacting very powerfully against...

Word of Salvation – Vol.44 No.1 - January 1999   A Certain Light of Nature   Sermon by Rev D Baird on Proverbs 20:27 & Romans 2:19-14 Scripture Readings: Luke 7:36-50; Romans 2:12-16, 3:21-26             with Canons of Dort 3/4, Art 4 Suggested Hymns: BoW 148; R 323; BoW 195; 497; 125; 159   Congregation, There's some very interesting people around, aren't there?  I realise some people are very boring and horrible.  But there are many others who are quite interesting.  The sort of people you don't mind having as friends.  When you meet these people at someone's place, you feel...

Guidance   by Rev. Dr. Steve Voorwinde Text: Proverbs 3:1-12   God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life. As a Christian it is your duty to find out what that plan is and to live accordingly. Let me give you some examples:   God has in mind exactly who the person is that you are to marry. Only if you marry precisely that person will you be in the very centre of his will for your life. If you do not marry the person he intends you to marry, you cannot expect his abundant blessing.   God...

Word of Salvation - Vol.48 No.1 - January 2003   Tunnel Vision Sermon by Rev P Archbald on Proverbs 4   Scripture Readings:  John 14:1-15; Proverbs 4   Congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is well known that Proverbs addresses the parent-child relationship; that it has much to say about parental discipline, for instance. It may seem that Proverbs 4 is one of those passages simply dealing with this theme of home life. But in reality, this chapter is not only about fathers and sons. It may indeed have implications for such relationships, but that is not the main point....

Word of Salvation - December 2010   PROPER DELIGHT IS THE KEY, John de Hoog (Sermon 8 in a series on the Ten Commandments)   Reading: Ephesians 5:21-33 Text: Exodus 20:14; Proverbs 5   Most people in Australia have not thought deeply about God and sex. If you were to ask people in the street what God thinks of sex, what kind of response do you think you’d get? “I guess he’s pretty much against it,” one person might say. “I suppose he tolerates it for married people, but not because he thinks it’s a good thing; it’s got to be...

Word of Salvation – February 2010   EDUCATING WITH A PROMISE – John Westendorp   Text – Proverbs 22:6 Reading – Deuteronomy 6:1-9, 20-25 & Proverbs 22:1-16 Singing – BoW 103b / 494 / 78a / 156   Introd: Education has changed a great deal since the days when I went to school. Sure, the basic three R’s are still being taught to our children. But a fourth ‘R’ has been added.’Reproduction’ has joined reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmatic as basic to the curriculum. Teaching about the ‘birds and the bees’ was originally left to Mum and Dad at home. But many...

Word of Salvation - May 2018   Issues in Living: Money By Rev. John Westendorp Text: Proverbs 3:9,10,13-16   Theme: The place of money in the life of God's children. Introd:  If you read the sermon title in the bulletin you may be a little curious. A sermon on money - is that really necessary in this congregation? Over the last decade or so things have gone well for us financially as a church. Our congregation manages its financial affairs rather well. Okay, occasionally we're a few thousand dollars behind budget. That's happened often before and we’ve always manage to catch...

Word of Salvation – Vol.42 No.3 - January 1997   A Win or a Sin?   A Sermon by Rev S Bajema on Proverbs 16:33 Scripture Reading: 2Thessalonians 3:6-15; Proverbs 16:9, 25, 33 Also Lord's Day 10   Dear Brothers and Sisters in our Lord. No one can deny that gambling is a major social problem.  One needs only to remember the inter-state television news story of those children being left in a car outside a casino while their mother was blowing the family budget inside. And locally, consider just the proliferation of pawn-broking shops, now in every suburb, exactly able...

Word of Salvation – Vol.12 No.48 – November 1966   Christmas Time Is Examination Time Sermon by Rev. J.F.H. vander Bom on Proverbs 17:3 Scripture Readings: Luke 1:46-55 & 1Cor. 3 :10--15 Text: Proverbs 17:3 Suggested Hymns: Psalter Hymnal: 235:1,2; 49:3 or: 39; 318:1,2,3;1 343:3,4; 201:3   Dear Christians, Christmas time is examination time. This is, in short, the message of today's text.  We mostly think of Christmas as a very happy time, among other reasons because by then the exams are over, and all the work has been done.  But this is only part of the truth, because the main...