Every activity of mall is normally motivated by a variety of factors whether internal or external, physical or mental. Some of these may even be beyond one’s control. For the child of God it becomes imperative that his every action be properly and soundly motivated. In other words. whatever the Christian believer does should be […]
Difficult Times Education faces mounting difficulties in our land. This is true of all school-systems: Public, Roman Catholic and Christian, though the problems are not identical in each. Goals, philosophy, curricula, methods, standards, manpower and costs are areas fraught with many questions and few answers. Christian schools have not been spared these problems. In many […]
Introduction In this presidential election year our citizens have another opportunity to indicate their convictions concerning the political issues and cast their ballots for Congressmen and President. As in the past, Christians in America will go their separate ways, dividing their votes between the two major parties. Among Christian Reformed people there are those who […]
On Tuesday, June 4, 1968, Dr. Harry M. Kuiterl, Professor of Ethics and Theology at the Free University of Amsterdam, addressed tile Christian Reformed Ministers’ Institute held in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The following is a summary of those remarks which were presented tinder the above title. I. The Exegesis of Genesis 1 The Creation account […]
Professor Dr. H. M. Kuitert spent the first two weeks of June in Grand Rapids and the Toronto-Hamilton area lecturing theology to sizeable audiences. Tuesday through Thursday of June 4–6 he lectured to more than three hundred Christian Reformed ministers at the Fine Arts Center on the Knollcrest campus of Calvin College. While presenting three […]
One who loves his Bible and believes it to be the inspired and therefore inerrant Word of God cannot but be disturbed by recent theological trends in Reformed circles in the Netherlands. A few months ago the Editor of Trowel and Sword criticized two Dutch publications, one by Dr. J. L. Koole, professor at the […]
(an appraisal of recent trends in Dutch Theology) Note: This article 6rst appeared in slightly different form in Calvinist Contact, March 15, 1968. An English translation was prepared for TORCH AND TRUMPET by Mr. H. Vander Laan of Fenwick, Ontario and Mr. W. Suk of St. Catharines, Ontario. “Is there anything of which it may […]
June 14, 1968 Editor, TORCH AND TRUMPET Dear Brother: I want to thank the Rev. and Mrs. Van Groningen for their comments on my article published in the February issue of the TORCH AND TRUMPET, I am in complete sympathy with two of the ideas expressed, the first being that seminary students would profit tremendously […]
“RENDER UNTO CAESAR” When we pay our taxes we are doing what Jesus bids us do and we ought to do it as in His sight and service. But this is only a token payment of much more which we owe to our state and nation. The Bible tells us to become very involved in […]
Everywhere in today’s world the Christian church is facing, with a new sense of urgency, the question of its calling. It confesses to having received the gospel of God’s grace in Christ Jesus. This, so the church acknowledges, must be presented and passed on. Such communication is its calling. Communication by the church, however, is […]