We welcome two new contributors to Sword and Shield this month. Mr. Joel Langerak Jr. contributes an article on Christian education in the school. Joel is a husband and father, a member of First Reformed Protestant Church in Michigan, and a teacher at Grace Reformed Protestant School in Michigan. His article is timely as a new school year begins and as parents and teachers alike take up their calling to rear the covenant seed in the fear of God’s name.

Mr. Eric Solanyk contributes an article on the danger of blindly following men and the need to discern the truth from the lie. He analyzes the doctrine of two prominent Protestant Reformed ministers who have not heretofore received much press in Sword and Shield. Eric is a husband and father and a member of the Loveland Reformed Protestant Fellowship. His article will be of great help to all of those who love God’s truth.

Thank you to both Joel and Eric for your contributions this month.

Under God’s blessing, plans continue to come together for the third annual meeting of Reformed Believers Publishing (RBP), the association that publishes Sword and Shield. The meeting will be held on Thursday, October 22, at 7:30 p.m. at the Wonderland Tire shop in Byron Center, MI (1 84th Street SW, Byron Center, MI 49315). Rev. M. VanderWal will deliver the keynote speech on the topic “The Office of Believer: 1953 and Today.” There also will be remarks and speeches by the other two editors and by members of the RBP board. It promises to be an evening of good instruction and fellowship. There are plans to livestream the meeting for those who are not able to make it out for the evening.

The annual meeting is also your opportunity to join Reformed Believers Publishing as an association member. Membership is open to all Reformed believers wherever God has placed you. Whether your back yard is the Great Lakes or the Rock River, the Pacific or the Rockies, the South China Sea or Fox Lake, you are invited to become a member of Reformed Believers Publishing and be part of the endeavor to publish sound, theological, and polemical Reformed literature. If you are interested in becoming a member, submit your request to the board by using the website (reformedbelieverspub.org) or the other information on the masthead. New members will be received by vote of the current RBP members at the annual meeting in October, so submit your request soon.

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