The editors and board of Reformed Believers Publishing are pleased to present to our readers another Letters Edition of Sword and Shield.

We recognize that our correspondents have many options for writing their views today, including social media posts and comments on blogs. Those forums are able to accommodate correspondence in real time, while it takes some time for letters to be compiled and published in the print format of a magazine. We appreciate our correspondents’ willingness to put in the effort of writing a letter and then their patience as they wait for it to be published.

One advantage of having one’s letter published in Sword and Shield may be that a magazine tends to preserve material well. Some years or even decades from now it may be difficult to lay one’s hand on that one particular social media exchange, but one can still pull the magazine off the shelf. So keep the letters coming. The Lord continues to lay many issues before his people for us to understand and judge from his word, which issues have been debated before in the history of the church and will undoubtedly be debated again. Your letter may profit not only this generation but also generations to come.

We continue to hear from our readers that Letters Editions are among the most anticipated issues of Sword and Shield. We trust that this issue will also be of interest to our readers, dealing as it does with vital matters of the Reformed faith.

May God speed the truths written herein to your heart and the next issue into your hands.