Our blogs share the hope of Christ with our community. Through stories, reflections, and insights from different voices in our church family, we aim to encourage a life of service, love, and outreach to the people around us.
When a friend or loved one is suffering, it can be challenging to say the right words. We want to have words that help rather than hurt. The example of Job’s three friends in Scripture shows us how easy it is to do the latter and how hard the former. Thankfully, Scripture also teaches how we can be truly wise and helpful friends to those who are hurting.
The authors, Rev. Dr Martin Robinson, Director of Missions and Theology at the Bible Society and Rev. Dan Yarnell, MA in New Testament, have pastored small churches in England since 1983.
The Heidelberg Catechism originated in the ancient Electoral Palatinate of which Heidelberg in Germany was the capital. It was the result of several years of slow reformation in the Palatinate under Frederick II and the Count Palatine Otto Heinrich.
This confession is the first of our three confessional documents. It was written in Doornik, a town in present day Belgium, in AD 1561 by Guido de Bres. It was sent to King Philip II of Spain to present to him what the Bible taught and to show that the Reformed Churches were no rebels.
