Remnant Reformed Church, together with Remnant Reformed Fellowship in Singapore, announces two free public lectures to be held in Singapore this December, Lord willing.

Lecture Titles:

• For Us and for Our Salvation: Jesus Christ at the Council of Nicea
• Marriage Is Honourable in All

Dates:

• Saturday, December 20, 2025
• Saturday, December 27, 2025

Time: 10:00 a.m. (SG)

Venue:
51 Cuppage Road, #03-03, Singapore 229469
(Room: Harvard 2)

Each lecture will be followed by Q&A, fellowship, and refreshments.

Please refer to the attached flyer for full details, directions, and contact information. The lectures will also be posted, Lord willing, on the Remnant Reformed YouTube channel.

All are welcome.

Please plan to attend the Reformation Day lecture this evening, October 31, 2025, sponsored by Remnant Reformed Church. Details are available here: www.lawgospel.com.

Questions can be submitted through the Contact Us section on our website (click the hyper-link to be brought directly to that page).

Hope to see you there!

What was the great sixteenth-century Reformation of the church about?

Well, it was about a great many things.
• It was about popes and penance.
• It was about corruption and conscience.
• It was about monks and masses.
• It was about the truth and the lie, Christ and antichrist, righteousness and unrighteousness.
• And much more besides.

Yes, but what was the Reformation about? What was it essentially about? What was the heart and the kernel of the Reformation? What was the issue that lay at the root of all that was said and done in the great Reformation of the church? What, in short, was the Reformation about?

Ah, therein lies the gospel. For the Reformation was about justification by faith alone.

We call the doctrine of justification by faith alone the material principle of the Reformation. That is, justification was the doctrine, the essence, the heart, the kernel, the issue—the material—of the entire Reformation.

And what marvelous material is justification by faith alone! For it is the gospel of our salvation in Jesus Christ alone.

This Reformation Day, we would be delighted if you would join us to hear about and rejoice in the wonderful gospel of justification by faith alone, the material principle of the Reformation.

Host: Remnant Reformed Church
Speaker: Rev. Andrew Lanning
Format: Lecture followed by Q&A and refreshments
Venue: Pavilion Christian School, 9181 Kenowa Ave. SW, Grand Rapids, MI 49534, Friday, October 31, 2025 @ 7:00 pm

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There are two ways to view the upcoming centennial of the Protestant Reformed Churches (PRC). One perspective views it as a true celebration of God’s goodness to this denomination over the past century. According to this view, the speeches, songs, and gatherings will be sacrifices of praise pleasing to God.

There is another view, however. This is a view based not on appearance but on the spiritual reality of things. According to this view, the songs, the lectures, and the gatherings will be an abomination to God. He will be “weary to bear them” (Isa. 1:10–15). According to this view, the PRC, which was once a faithful city, has now “become an harlot”; and whereas it was once filled with righteousness and judgment, it now only houses “murderers” (v. 21).

Such a judgment is made concerning the institution that has forsaken the truth and has pursued the will of man. The “country” is desolate (Isa. 1:7), which means the institution has departed from God and his truth.

(Continued in the May 31, 2025, issue of Reformed Pavilion).

Reformed Pavilion – February 15, 2025

The current controversy in the Reformed Protestant Churches (RPC) involving the idea of the antithesis has a context. A quarrel this severe about how the truth of the antithesis ought to be applied in the lives of Reformed Christians does not occur in a vacuum. The question is, what is that context? Why has this particular doctrine become an issue in those churches?

 As is often the case, the matters involved are complex, and perhaps not all of the pieces of the puzzle have been overturned. Jigsaw puzzles are more difficult when there are more pieces to fit together. Nevertheless, some of the pieces we do have to work with include such things as tyranny, pride, and putting one’s own will above all.

But to see such things, we need to back up to when everything in the RPC appeared to be going very well. There had been some controversies rocking the boat, such as proximity to the sanctuary in worship and the reasons behind Christian school education, but neither of those issues had threatened to overturn the newly formed church institution. Only two years after the Reformed Protestant Churches were born as a denomination, however, there was another controversy that did capsize those churches. Exclusive psalmody became a major source of contention and did so very suddenly and intensely.

I will not recount the details of the history of that time. Such information can be found elsewhere. My purpose is to recount the significance of those events. A minister and an elder were suspended, and two elders were deposed. In a denomination consisting of only several churches with two experienced ministers, one candidate for the ministry, and a couple of seminary students on the horizon, that represented a major loss. But the loss was not primarily in numbers. The Reformed Protestant Churches appeared on the surface to nevertheless survive and float along in a fine manner. But their boat had suffered a serious hemorrhage in the course of those events, a fatal leak. The sovereignty of man’s will in worship would let through all the water and sludge required to sink the vessel to the bottom of the sea just as decisively and quickly as it had capsized earlier.

Pride and tyranny came sluicing in through the fatal leak that had been sprung. No one can deny that for one to lord it over another one is tyranny, and no one can deny that such lording occurred in that denomination. Some will argue that this group was guilty of the tyranny, and some will argue that that group was guilty of the tyranny; but that tyranny was present all can agree. Also, regardless of such opinions, the tyranny continues. Tyranny and pride go hand in hand. They will both naturally bubble forth out of the hole called “man” that is in the bottom of one’s boat. Man’s will is decisive in the RPC. The gaping hole is there.

Continue reading (February 1, 2025 issue)…

I ended a book review in the November 23, 2024, issue with these words: “Having reviewed this book on spiritual abuse, I hope in the next article to apply what we have learned.” In this article we will make such application to the Reformed Protestant Churches (RPC). Based on the evidence, it is clear that the RPC are spiritually abusive. The leaders do not lead as Christ leads. This started in 2023 when a few of the leaders determined that worship would be according to their rule and not God’s rule. Such rule of man continues to this day. The RPC have fallen “into the hand of man” (I Chron. 21:13). Being in the hands of man results in spiritual abuse, and the rule of the RPC is characterized by “force” and “cruelty” (Ezek. 34:4).

(Continue reading in the 1/4/25 issue of Reformed Pavilion here)

Jesus is “THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS” (Jeremiah 23:6).

Jesus is “made unto us…righteousness” (I Cor. 1:30).

Jesus is “Christ our righteousness” (Belgic Confession 22).

But what can it mean that Jesus is our righteousness? Certainly it means that Jesus himself is righteous, and how glorious is his righteousness! When the law said, “Do,” Jesus did. When the law said, “Don’t,” Jesus didn’t. Jesus stood under all the strict commandments of the righteous God’s holy law and Jesus perfectly obeyed. Oh, yes, Jesus is righteous!

But Jesus is our righteousness? What can it mean? Listen to this lovely explanation: “Jesus Christ, imputing to us all his merits and so many holy works which he has done for us and in our stead, is our righteousness” (Belgic Confession 22).

How wonderful! How unexpected! It is the language of substitution. It is the language of one doing something instead of another and for another. Jesus stood in the place of us ungodly sinners and obeyed God’s law “for us and in our stead!”

And the result of Jesus’ substitutionary obedience? We are righteous before God! Not because we obeyed a single commandment, but because Jesus obeyed every single commandment for us. Yes, we are righteous before God! Because Jesus is our righteousness.

We call Jesus’ substitutionary obedience for us his active obedience. This Reformation Day, come hear the glorious gospel and blessed comfort of Jesus’ active obedience. Come rejoice in the wonderful news that Jesus is our righteousness!

The lecture will be held this Thursday, October 31 at 7:30pm at Pavilion Christian School (9181 Kenowa Ave SW, Grand Rapids, MI 49534). You can find more information here: www.lawgospel.com.

Prof. David J. Engelsma published the following article this month in response to two editorials in Reformed Pavilion. The editorials instructed and warned those former members of the Protestant Reformed Churches (PRC) and the Reformed Protestant Churches (RPC) who are currently joining the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC) and the United Reformed Churches (URC) that the OPC and the URC hold to the Arminian doctrine of the well-meant offer of the gospel. In response to those editorials, Professor Engelsma published the following article blaming the undersigned for the exodus of Protestant Reformed members to the OPC and to the URC. The heart of Professor Engelsma’s article is the charge that the undersigned committed the condemnable sin of schism in the Protestant Reformed Churches and that my schism in the PRC has had the lingering effect today of scattering the sheep and the lambs of the PRC into other churches.

Continued …