We have received numerous submissions for the new rubric Insights. This is a new rubric that is filled by you, the reader, with interesting tidbits, quotes, commentary, and whatever else you might deem worthy of publication. This influx of new material is very welcome. Of course, the editor, regrettably, must of necessity pick and choose, so do not be discouraged if your submission is not published right away. Keep the submissions coming. It is better to have too much than too little.

The submission for Insights included in this issue is from Ally Ophoff and concerns a sermon preached by Rev. Bill Langerak. Full disclosure for the reader: he is my older brother. The sword of the gospel, wielded by the sovereign Christ, has divided between us. In this season in which we remember Christ’s incarnation, let us be reminded that Christ did not come to bring peace but division and to set a man at variance with the members of his own household. The divide deepens daily. I agree wholeheartedly with the assessment of the writer: “Rev. Bill Langerak is afraid of the gospel.” His sermon is what passes for gospel preaching in the Protestant Reformed Churches today: a gospel that is no gospel. And the people who sit under no gospel languish and die.

We could multiply examples from other ministers. Sometimes it is difficult to find up-to-date examples. It seems that many Protestant Reformed consistories are ashamed of what their ministers preach and will not publish their sermons online. That is strange behavior for those who are supposed to sound out the truth in all the earth. Maybe by not publishing their ministers’ sermons online, these men are revealing that they know they do not have the truth preached in their churches. Or perhaps they are afraid that their ministers’ sermons will be reproved by the light, so they put their lamp under a bushel.

For the rest, in this issue there is a contribution from Mr. Aaron Lim from the Berean Reformed Protestant Church in Singapore, a small church maintaining a witness to the truth and against the lie in that island nation and who is not ashamed that her sound goes out into all the earth. In light of that contribution, we remind our readership that we encourage submissions from friend and foe. The rest of the issue is filled with articles from our regular staff of writers in their regular rubrics.

May the pen—mightier than the sword—be blessed by the Lord to instruct in the truth and to put to flight the lie for the coming of Christ’s kingdom and the destruction of Satan’s.