IS THIS SOUND PEDAGOGY? Not so many months ago a pastor gave a talk to his young people on current trends in morals. After the talk a college student came up to his pastor and said something like this: “My, I enjoyed that; that was straight stuff. I was glad to hear what you had to say. I hear […]
My own introduction to Christian education came comparatively late in life. My education through high school was in the public schools of the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, area where the only religiously oriented schools of which 1 was aware were the parochial schools of the Roman Catholics and the Lutherans. When I thought of those institutions at all, […]
The youth of today will constitute the church of tomorrow. This often repeated phrase clearly points tip for today the importance of the work of the church in respect of its children and young people. The prospect for the youth of the church today and in the future seems to be something less than optimistic. They […]
A flask-shaped grey cocoon Hung near, its mystic wonder I would see! For snug within lay an Emperor Moth, Through the narrow neck its release must be… But its body is large, the opening small, Escape is to flight and airy bliss; With great labor its strives and struggles within, But haste clips the chrysalis. […]
But when he was come to the River where there was no Bridge, there again he was in a heavy case; now, now be said be should be drowned for ever, and so never see that Face with Comfort, that he had come so many miles to behold. And here also I took notice of […]
The wheat lay lush and golden, Fast ripened ‘neath the Oriental sun; Sun-drenched and ready, waiting for the knife, Each grain is cut before the day is done. Bound carefully into a generous bundle Of precious life. And now, my heart, this lesson learn: Thou, too, art bundled with the ties of God’s own love. […]
THE PURITY OF THE CHURCH It is the task of Christ’s office-bearers to keep the Church pure. This is a principal objective in the exercise of church discipline, and to it we would pay attention in this and a following article. Frankly speaking, we are now considering the fact that the Bible enjoins the Church to […]
The adjustment of the interpretation of the first chapters of Genesis to the hypotheses of evolutionism is, of course, not recent. This has been done ever since Darwinism became popular. What is recent, however, are the inroads which this philosophy is making into two Reformed denominations—the one in the Netherlands, caned De Gereformeerde Kerken, and the […]
Scripture: Ephesians 1:15–23 Ephesians 4:1–16 Background: The relationship of the Church to the Kingdom of God is a basic item in our Christian view of life. Chapter 5 of The Bible and the Life of the Christian is packed with significant statements on this problem, and we urge discussion groups to get and study this […]
Scripture: Hebrews 10:19–31 III John Background: Just what is the Church? How are denominations related to the Church? Is the Church the sum-total of all the existing church groups which label themselves church? Is the church as we live in it and are members of it really essential to our salvation? Asking these questions will furnish […]