Statistics, someone has once said, can be used to prove anything. Though this is largely true, if statistics are correctly handled they are also able to give a fairly adequate survey of any given situation. In the Christian Reformed Church mention has been made from time to time of the rather amazing growth which we […]
According to TIME, March 31, 1952, we have a poker-playing President. During Harry Truman’s March vacation at Key West the President and his political household spent each day from four o’clock in the afternoon till eleven at night in a friendly game of poker, with time off for dinner. Each player put up a hundred […]
We are concerned in this series of articles with the problem of Reformed apologetics. In the first three articles we discussed the general nature of Reformed apologetics. Its method, we saw, is radically different from that of Romanist-evangelical apologetics. The latter starts from the presupposition that man has a measure of ultimacy or autonomy. This […]
The sudden death of Dr. Klaas Schilder may not pass by unnoticed by the Reformed communities throughout the world. Although he worked most intensively within the frontiers of the Netherlands, his influence as a penetrating student of the Word of God was and is felt wherever men and women love the Reformed faith. Within the constellation […]
(This article is a reflection on that by Hartzell Spence, which appeared in the Feb. 26, 1952 issue of Look.) 50,000 errors in the New Testament! What a sensational statement. If the purpose of Hartzell Spence was to undermine faith in the reliability of the Word, he could hardly have chosen a better headline. He […]
NOTE: This is the seventh of a series of attitudes on common contemporary viewpoints which are contrary to Orthodox Christianity. What Is Unitarianism? UNITARIANISM is that religious system which denies that there are three Persons in the Godhead. It holds that there is only […]
According to the Apostle Paul, the fall of man into sin was an historical fact. There was on this earth an actual Adam who at a definite point in history disobeyed God and plunged the human race into an estate of sin and misery. “Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through […]
Almost all churches are intent on numerical growth. Most ministers in particular are eager to see the membership of their churches increase by leaps and bounds. That attitude is not necessarily wrong. Provided those who are added to the church are saved, additions most certainly are cause for warm gratitude. But not infrequently the desire for numerical […]
REVIEW OF CHAPTERS I–IV CHAPTER I The Relevance of Calvinism for Today By Dr. Clarence Bouma In this opening chapter Dr. Bouma asks and answers three questions, namely: I. What do we mean by Calvinism? II. Why is Calvinism so sorely needed with a view to our present-day ethical task? III. How is this task to […]
The poor fellow had enough. During his long haul in service life in the raw had clawed his soul. Naked death, blood and fear made up his daily existence. That was bad enough. But there was a deeper wound, more painful. He just could not take those buddies who drank and blasphemed in licentiousness. He […]