GOD’S WORD FOR TODAY’S WORLD… No institution ministering to the many needs of the world is accused with more vituperation than the church. Many are the charges leveled against her. The one most frequently and vehemently asserted concerns her message. This, so the critics argue, is totally irrelevant in today’s world. Here not so much the […]
For Jacobus Revius the Word of God was the chief source of poetic inspiration. In that revealed Word it was especially the Word made flesh—Christ Jesus himself who inspired the poet’s finest lyrics. The supreme significance of Christ in the Scriptures so informs Revius’ poetic sensibility that the Savior becomes the key image to which all […]
To be a distinctive people is always the calling and challenge which Cod through his Word and Spirit binds upon his church. This is to be reflected by believers in thought, word, and deed. In view of the strong tides of worldliness sweeping across the churches in this century, the Christian Reformed Church in synodical […]
During the past few years New Testament scholars have given the interested reader some worthwhile books on the origin and background of the canonical Gospels.1 In these books questions concerning the setting and circumstances in which the Gospels were formed, problems pertaining to the Gospel tradition, and inquiries relating to the modem investigation called Form […]
In the last article we noted that verbal inspiration by no means commits us to the position that God’s holy Word was mechanically dictated. In fact, a careful study of Scripture itself precludes the possibility of such a conclusion. On every page we find the imprint of the activity of the “human” authors. This acknowledgement on the part […]
It is our intention now to begin a series of brief articles in which we shall point to certain passages from Scripture which quite directly deal with the task of ecclesiastical discipline. Opposition to the exercise of a meaningful, official church discipline is often expressed by the question, “How can ordinary members of a congregation be […]
Strange things are happening within the Roman church. Today we witness a definitely medieval church trying to catch up with a modem world. But Rome is making this attempt in a unique way. Nowhere do we read of any repudiation of the principles which were championed for so many years. Instead, in carefully couched language […]
My memory wings its way, lest it be late— Beyond the old Damascus gate, Where lies the pathway Jesus walked, cross-bound, Each step seems holy ground. My ears pressed close, I hear the rabble cry, And faintly…ah, the tortured sign! But graven deep, indelibly, is Calvary, Grim…gaunt…with crosses three. The sunlight which had swiftly filtered […]
William Cunningham, who was born in 1805 and died in 1861, was one of the most famous of the Scotch Presbyterian theologians. He and Charles Hodge each regarded the other as the greatest reformed theologian of that time. His master work, Historical Theology, first issued in 1862, was recently reprinted after being out of print for […]
Read More Than Conquerors, pp. 242–250 A. THE SYMBOL Try to see it as John saw it in the vision. There is, first of all, the city itself (Rev. 21:10, 16, 18). It is a perfect cube, stretching away as far as John is able to see. It measures the distance from Maine to Florida […]