De Goede Herder Kerk
Dutch ReformedDe Goede Herder Kerk (The Good Shepherd Church) is a traditional Dutch Reformed congregation in Leiden with a rich history of community service and Biblical preaching. Services are conducted in Dutch with English summaries available. We are deeply rooted in the Reformed tradition of the Netherlands and place a high value on catechism, family worship, and the covenant community. Our congregation is intergenerational and strongly committed to the Christian education of children.
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After declaring everything very good at the end of the sixth day, God rests on the seventh. The Sabbath is one of the most theologically loaded institutions in...
Tohu vavohu — formless and empty. The earth was without shape and without content, and darkness covered the surface of the deep. This is the starting point...
Calvin observed that Moses wrote Genesis not for philosophers or natural scientists but for ordinary people — for farmers and fishermen and anyone who could...
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Stewardship not ownership — this should be the foundation of every Christian environmental ethic. We hold creation in trust. That changes everything about how...
Evening to morning — this is also how the church calendar works. Vespers before Matins, darkness before light. The ancient liturgy is built on creation's...
God gives every plant and tree for food. Provision is built into creation from the beginning. Before the fall, before scarcity, the Creator provides...
The firmament — the expanse — is God creating space. Separation is not division in a negative sense; it is the creation of room for different things to exist....