Church Revival Movement

Some 350 years ago, our faithful Reformed forefathers in Scotland took hold of the covenant of grace in their National Covenant, by this means fulfilling their duty and privilege as Christ’s witnessing church in the British Isles. Thus was born the Second, or Covenanted Reformation of religion in those Isles, sustained and greatly furthered by [...]

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San Diego – In a darkened room at the San Diego Convention Center last week, nearly 1,000 people clapped, sang and danced to evening prayers, with the words projected on two large screens against a bucolic backdrop of mountain vistas and rolling streams.
Featuring a five-piece band and a charismatic, storytelling leader, the evening service could [...]

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The setting was perfect. The atmosphere was just right. This was the ideal time and place. We were in the car on the way to Synod. With all the issues and challenges that lay immediately before us, what better opportunity to discuss what it means to be Reformed!
There were three of us travelling together. [...]

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A young evangelical preacher known for his no-frills sermons didn’t go soft when it came to rebuking pastors who are preaching something other than the Gospel and those who are pretending to be godly.
“I, unfortunately, with a great deal of sorrow have walked away from the idea that all of you are men and women [...]

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The highest governing body of the Christian Reformed Church on Tuesday approved a report on the “Third Wave” movement of the Holy Spirit and recommended sending it to member congregations for study.
The report asks churches to accept the different ways in which the Pentecostal-like movement manifests the work of the Spirit while cautioning members against [...]

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