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Witness Hour on WYLL 1160AM every Sunday at 8:00AM with Rev. Carl Haak
Listen to the
Reformed
Witness Hour on WYLL 1160AM every Sunday at 8:00AM with Rev. Carl Haak
The Reformed Free Publishing Association (RFPA) is an independent, non-profit organization that publishes twenty-one issues a year of the Standard Bearer, a semi-monthly periodical, and Reformed books in the Calvinistic tradition. The RFPA began with publication of the Standard Bearer in 1924. A book publishing arm was added in 1966. RFPA literature witnesseses to the truth contained in the Three Forms of Unity (Belgic Confession, Heidelberg Catechism, Canons of Dordt) and opposes contrary views.
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In early October 1941, the Reformed Witness Hour produced and aired its first broadcast in Grand Rapids , MI. It originated as a project of the Young Men's Society of First Protestant Reformed Church and was known as the "Witness Hour." It was broadcast over WLAV-AM for the first few years, but later moved to WFUR-AM. In 1945, the Society asked the Consistory of First Protestant Reformed Church to sponsor the broadcasts and that has been the case ever since. Over the years the broadcasts have been supported by other Protestant Reformed churches as well.
Our first radio pastor, Rev. Herman Hoeksema, in the very first broadcast of our program explained it this way. His words remain the confession of the Reformed Witness Hour today:
"The supreme and, in a sense, the only task of the Church is to preach the Word of God. But if there is a Word of God to be proclaimed by the Church, it must needs be a Word which God Himself speaks, and Which He speaks concerning Himself. And if God speaks concerning Himself, the basic and all-pervading note of that speech must inevitably be: I am God! Unless the Church proclaims this truth in all its implications, in all its purity and without compromise, she cannot preach, she has nothing to say. Unless she proclaims this truth, not as one of the tenets of her faith but as the truth of all truths, not occasionally but always, she forfeits the right and lacks the power to say anything at all about man, the world, Christ, salvation, life and death, sin and grace. We hope to make this the theme of our radio broadcasts, whatever may be the particular subject of discussion, whether we speak of Him directly or of man, of Christ and salvation, of the Church and the world, of sin and grace, of life and death. God is God!"
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For over seventy years the Standard Bearer has faithfully and boldly witnessed to the faith of the Protestant Reformation as set forth in the Reformed and Presbyterian creeds.
This semi-monthly, 24-page magazine explains and defends Reformed doctrine (e.g., sovereign, particular grace, grounded in eternal election); teaches the Reformed life of the church and believer (e.g., Reformed church government and the covenantal life of the Reformed family); and vigorously combats old and new errors that threaten the Reformed faith and life (e.g., denial of the infallibility of Holy Scripture; advocacy of a universal love and grace of God; and the charismatic movement), root and branch.
In an age of confusion and compromise, the Standard Bearer is a trumpet giving a clear and certain sound (cf. Ezekiel 33; I Corinthians 14:8). Unashamed of the gospel of salvation by grace alone and of the law that regulates the life of holiness, the Standard Bearer not only calls Protestant saints to the great battles of our time but also explores and develops the riches of the Reformed faith.
The Standard Bearer is mailed to many countries.
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