A WATERED GARDEN had its beginnings in the mid 1980's when the late Professor Homer C. Hoeksema was asked to write a comprehensive history of the seventy-year-old denomination of the Protestant Reformed Churches. He and his wife Gertrude started research in this project and developed an extensive outline. They realized that the history of a denomination is molded by its adherence to the Scriptural beliefs and doctrines of that denomination. Especially one Scriptural concept serves as a guideline for this history: the organic growth and development of God's church as He calls and guides it throughout history. As the Scriptures use the growth of a garden to picture the church, so the author uses the watered garden as the theme for this history. "And thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. - Isaiah 58:11

A Watered Garden: A Brief History the Protestant Reformed Churches in America

Hoeksema, Gertrude

Religion & Spirituality

Reformed Free Pub Assn

Throughout the ages God has led His church ever deeper into the truth by way of controversy and strife. Ready to Give an Answer tells how one, small body of Reformed believers-the Protestant Reformed Churches- was born in a struggle to defend the sovereignty of God in salvation over against the false teaching of a well-meant gospel offer rooted in the corrupting theory of common grace, and it tells how, only twenty-five years later, this same denomination was almost destroyed, as once again the forces of Arminianism, clothed now in a conditional covenant, did battle with the doctrines of sovereign grace. 
From these two controversies has emerges the distinctively scriptural Protestant Reformed teaching regarding the one and everlasting covenant of grace, that living and unbreakable bond of friendship and fellowship between God and His chosen people, a covenant purposed eternally, established unilaterally, and effected and maintained solely by the power of God's unconditional and particular grace. 
A brief introduction by Professor Herman Hanko establishes the historic and doctrinal setting for each of the struggles. Then, in an easy-to-read-and-remember series of questions and answers, the authors draw evidence from Scripture and the confessions, contrasting the bankruptcy of a conditional covenant and its salvation offered to all who will believe to the richness of a covenant whose realization is unfettered by the will of man and of a grace that is always full and free. 
Ready to Give an Answer will be of interest to all who love the cause of God and truth, for it is the story of sovereign grace, a story that gives all the glory to God, who preserves His cause in the midst of the world, and makes His truth to triumph.

Ready to Give an Answer: A Catechism of Reformed Distinctives

Hanko, Herman

Hoeksema, Herman

This third volume in the three-volume art curriculum set, Behold the Beauty, is designed to be used by teachers or homeschooling parents for kindergarten- 6th grade. The ultimate objective of every lesson is exactly as the title implies: to behold the beauty of creation and to praise God in doing that. As students learn to more closely observe creation while rendering what they see in pencil, paint, or other artistic media, they will be trained to meet that objective. In serving that goal, the lessons teach how to use the elements of art, such as line, shape, and color, while introducing the principles of design, such as unity, variety, and focal point. Not only do students learn to behold the evidence of God's glory all around them by these means, they also learn to make objects of beauty in order to communicate that glory to others. The curriculum is based on the infallible Scriptures, and the twelve lessons of each grade level comprise a thorough, biblical, and systematic art education.
 Behold the Beauty was also written with practical considerations in mind: to assist instructors who have had little or no training in art. The lessons are clear and easy to use, requiring minimal supplies without compromising objectives.

Art Curriculum for Fourth-sixth Grade (Behold the Beauty)

Arts & Photography

Connie L. Meyer

Study & Teaching

Proceeding from the truth that the source of salvation is divine and sovereign election in God’s eternal will, the author demonstrates that all the other spiritual blessings of salvation are of grace. Salvation by grace is a wonderwork of the Almighty, an exclusively divine work in which man has no part and also does not depend on the work or will of man.

Wonder of Grace

Christian Books & Bibles

This volume treats the apostle's explanation of the main theme of the epistle in his glorious paean to love in 1 Corinthians 13. Also included in this commentary is treatment of the doctrinal heart of the epistle—the apostle's instruction regarding the resurrection. The apostle grounds all of his instruction about the way of love in the gospel of the cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ.This second volume covers chapters 10-16 of 1 Corinthians.

Walking in the Way of Love: A Practical Commentary for the Believer on 1 Corinthians

Langerak, Nathan J.