From the Editor — February 2026

Professor Brian Huizinga is a nasty theologian of works, and he is God’s judgment upon the Protestant Reformed Churches (PRC). God raised up Huizinga because he was determined to give those churches over to a strong delusion that they might believe a lie and be damned, who received not the love of the truth. Huizinga will teach his wicked theology to a generation of Protestant Reformed ministerial candidates, ensuring that his wicked theology is taught from every Protestant Reformed pulpit.

Ashley Cleveland, in the Running Footmen rubric, analyzes Huizinga’s wretched and miserable theology of rewards. His worthless and damning doctrine is rightly ridiculed by our writer, like Elijah ridiculed the ridiculous idol Baal on Mount Carmel. “Maybe he is sleeping! Maybe he is on a journey!” Cha-ching! Cash in those rewards now for a greater place in heaven! The more you do, the more you get! The better you are, the higher you sit! Huizinga’s theology of rewards is as carnal as your credit card rewards, Starbucks rewards, or frequent flyer rewards! He is just another Tetzel: a slick salesman.

The fearful thing for Brian Huizinga is that he will leave all who receive his doctrine utterly naked before the judgment of God, and Huizinga will be to blame. He should heed the warning of David and kiss the Son while he is yet near and while there is still time! But I fear that Huizinga is very hardened in his false doctrine and that as God’s judgment on him for his role in the demise of the gospel in the PRC. Huizinga’s theology is simply the fruit of his doctrine that man has fellowship with God through Christ, by faith, and in the way of good works. Christ and man. Faith and works. Two rails on which your pump trolley to heaven rides!

The PRC is awash in this false doctrine of works. Like a narcissist who is full of himself, the Protestant Reformed ministers and people cannot stop talking about themselves and how much good they can do. Read the editorial on Daniel Kleyn’s speech given at an officebearers’ conference hosted by Crete Protestant Reformed Church. His speech is the gospel of the law. It is what man must do. It is how ministers are to help the people out in all this doing by giving them large doses of admonishment to get them the grace they need to work harder!

And if the Protestant Reformed ministers are not promoting false doctrine themselves, then they are busy making sure that the walls of the antithesis that were so carefully built over many years are torn down to the ground so that the PRC can have comfortable and cozy relations with the broader church world. I do not say broader Reformed church world because the PRC is long past that. You can read of this in Rev. Tyler Ophoff’s continuation of his examination of Rev. Martyn McGeown’s fables in Understanding the Times. The PRC’s tearing down the walls of the antithesis is an example of what Asaph prophesied in Psalm 74:4–7:

4. Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.

5. A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

6. But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.

7. They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.

The editor has translated another meditation by Rev. Herman Hoeksema as this issue’s meditation. Hoeksema asks a pointed question in this meditation:

Or does it not strike you that in this whole vision that the Lord through the angel of the covenant does everything alone—perfectly alone?

Or does it escape your attention that this high priest, this man Joshua, who stands at the head of God’s people, does absolutely nothing?

Hoeksema was questioning the readership of his day regarding the salvation of Joshua. Many in Hoeksema’s day did miss it! They read the Bible, and they missed that everywhere scripture teaches that man does nothing for his salvation and that God does everything for the salvation of his people. They read the Bible, and all they could find was man, man, man, responsibility, responsibility, responsibility, and works, works, works.

It is the theology that man does nothing for his salvation that once was part of the PRC but is now again hated, despised, mocked, and ridiculed in that denomination. The members are offended by the gospel of Christ that man is nothing and does nothing for his salvation and that Christ is everything and does everything for the salvation of his people. They miss it today in the PRC too. They read the Bible, and all they can find too is man, man’s works, man’s repentance, man’s faith, man, man, man (all by grace, of course).

So for an Insights contribution this month, we have a solemn call from the past issued yet again to the PRC. If there are any who have ears to hear, let them come out!