Let’s face it: Life is really quite taken up with “things.” Christ and his Cross, his blood and reconciliation, salvation, heaven—these are indeed wonderful, but sobriety and candor demand that we must think much on how to get and how to keep the many “things” which make life possible and pleasant. Things: how heavy their burden in […]
WERE THEY REALLY CALLED? It is not an uncommon experience to be jolted by the startling title of some book or magazine article. That was my experience while glancing over the table of contents of the July 1962 issue of The Pulpit. My eye caught the words,“The Decline and Fall of the Parish Ministry”—the subject […]
In the July-August issue of The Reformed Journal, Dr. G. Brillenburg Wurth, professor at the Kampen Theological Seminary in the Netherlands, writes about “Ecumenical Developments in the Netherlands.” The purpose of the article is to allay the fears that have arisen among us about certain developments among our Reformed brethren in the old country. The writer of […]
Lord, give us men and women too With ears attentive to Thy Word, Who stand upright, know what to do Because Thy blessed voice they heard, And sense the awful subtlety Of spirit-killing winds that blow Of false ecumenicity With shallow friend as well as foe. Lord, give us men, both young and old, That […]
THOUGHTS ON CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH… Within the Presbyterian Church (U.S.) the lines between liberal and conservative theology are being more sharply drawn these days. This has led to heated debates and contentions in several congregations. Whenever this happens church law in that denomination allows for the appointment of a “judicial commission” which receives “the authority of […]
TELEPHONE SURVEY FINDS 50,000 CHURCHLESS An EP dispatch from Chicago tells that a survey by telephone was made to learn the religious affiliation of 205,000 residents of the suburban areas of that city. 550 people were employed to contact between 85 and 90 percent of the people in the areas surveyed. It was found that […]
This past Summer on a university campus a conservative Baptist friend suggested to me that a conservative Christian could not be a liberal in politics. He suggested that theological conservatism and political-liberalism were incompatible. This was not a startling statement as consistency would seem to demand as much. Not long after this the political views of […]
To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, he that walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks: I know thy works, and thy toil and patience, and that thou canst not bear evil men, and didst try them that […]
And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These things saith the first and the last, who was dead, and lived again: I know thy tribulation, and thy poverty (but thou are rich), and the blasphemy of them that say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. […]
And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: These things saith he that hath the sharp two-edged sword: I know where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s throne is; and thou holdest fast my name, and didst not deny my faith, even in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was […]