Upcoming: BRJ 76 - the 30th Anniversary Issue

BRJ 76 is in the proof-reading stages and should be going to the printers in a few weeks or so (DV). Our last journal was near the beginning of this year, about half a year ago, but there is a desire to increase the frequency of publication in future (if we get more high quality and topical articles!).

I’m delighted to say that this BRJ will contain the last speech by Prof. Engelsma from our BRF Family Conference in 2018 (on “The Reformed Family—According to the Word of God”). This speech deals with the critical subject of divorce and remarriage. Despite the clear teaching in the Bible on this subject, the prevailing views and practices in the church world today are scandalous. May this article help to correct and convict where it is needed.

Our editorial series continues, considering the “more loving than God” argument made by all degrees of universalists, including Arminians and hypo-Calvinists whom claim that God desires to save those whom He does not actually save. But does the Bible actually teach that Christians ought to love every single person without exception? Aren’t there examples of righteous people commended for not doing this in certain circumstances, and of others being rebuked for loving God’s enemies when they should not?

We also have an intriguing book review regarding a book developing the subject of God’s impassibility alongside His revelation of Himself through anthropopathisms. Against many witnesses of the ancient and present church, modern passibilists claim that God suffers eternally, and still others confuse Christ’s suffering with suffering in the divine nature. How then ought we properly understand the Scriptures which speak of God answering or responding to His creatures?

Readers who have been following our series on house-churchism will be pleased to learn that the next instalment is included. This time we move on to a positive treatment of what Scripture has to tell us about authority and offices in the church given to some but not to others, looking first at concrete examples throughout the Old Testament and beginning our treatment of the New.

Finally we once again have some correspondence to share, with some particularly interesting observations from a former editor on what now the 30th anniversary of the BRJ. Don’t forget to subscribe if you haven’t already!