The Reformed family
The British Reformed Fellowship (BRF) conference on ‘The Reformed Family – According to the Word of God’ took place in Cardiff from 21–28 July.
The family’s origin was seen to be in creation and even in the Trinity, and its restoration in godliness is through the gospel of grace alone. The addresses warned that the family is not to be idolised, for human marriage is only for this age and not the next (Matthew 22.30), and marriages are a picture of the eternal union between Christ and his beloved church (Ephesians 5.22-33). There are times in the lives of many of God’s people when they must forsake their family for Jesus’ sake (Luke 14.26).
Sanctification in Scotland
Many people from all over the world travelled to Gartmore House, a few miles east of Loch Lomond, for the 2014 British Reformed Fellowship (BRF) family conference from July 26 – August 2.
The conference theme, ‘Be Ye Holy’, was ably developed in the six main talks and two Sunday sermons by David Engelsma and Herman Hanko, experienced ministers of the Word, seminary professors and Christian authors. Sanctification was understood in the light of God’s grace, compared and contrasted with justification, and related to the moral law (no antinomianism!). The imperfection and yet the victory of our sanctification in this life was clearly set forth.