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Corporate Worship
A pastoral letter: Dear Brothers and Sisters, In the last pastoral letter our thoughts were focused on the subject of ‘time’ and here we are with about thirty days which seem to have flown by! While thinking about a subject for this pastoral letter, a book I read last summer came to mind, the title [...]
Time: A Pastoral Letter
Dear Brothers and Sisters, In the Providence of God we have in front of us a dozen or so months of work, as well as things to do and various activities to be carried out in the presence of God, for His glory. This pastoral letter is the first I’ll be writing regularly to the [...]
Full-length documentary of Reformation Italy
The full-length documentary Reformation Italy is now available to watch online. It is approximately 30 minutes in length and features Rev. Ferrari, Rev. Mike Brown, Dr. Mike Horton, and Simonetta Carr.
What Does Confessional Christianity Look Like?
(Dr. Brian Lee, pastor of Christ Reformed Church, Washington DC, recently visited and ministered to CERF in Milan, Italy. He wrote this article for Christian Renewal. It is used here by permission.) What does confessional Christianity look like? I recently had the privilege of trying to answer that question at a Reformation Day conference with a [...]
Recovering Scripture, Italian Style
It might not be an overstatement to say that if it weren’t for the Italians, I wouldn’t be where I am today. Where I am today is: gathering weekly with other brothers and sisters to worship and pray to our Heavenly Father, to hear Christ the Son proclaimed and exalted in His Word, eating His [...]
Latest News from Pastor Ferrari
Dear Brethren, Since I wrote you last June many things happened. The members of CERF continue to be faithful in their Christian profession, and we continue to have a number of visitors who desire to commit themselves to Christianity and especially to the Reformed faith. We also had number of visiting preacehrs in the last [...]
The Value of Preaching in an Age of Visual Idolatry
The Lord said to [Moses] : Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the blind? Have not I, the Lord? (Exodus 4:11). These words speak of the creative power of God. As we know, God has ‘created man male and female, after His own image, in knowledge, [...]
How Do Good Works Happen to Good People?
How Do Good Works Happen to Good People? The doctrine of justification by faith came as genuine comfort to people who believed they needed to be righteous to merit God’s favor. It taught that the only way for believers to satisfy the demands of the law was to look to Christ in faith and receive [...]
April Newsletter
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Right with God
The Protestant Reformation started with the same question that had motivated much Roman Catholic teaching and practice throughout the Middle Ages: how can sinners be right with a holy and perfect God after they have sinned against him? For Rome and the Reformers, justification was the critical doctrine, but each side defined it differently. D.G. Hart writes a post on the doctrine of justification in his fifth post in a series on Protestantism for ReformationItaly.