So all the generations from Abraham unto David are fourteen generations; and from David unto the carrying away to Babylon fourteen generations; and from the carrying away to Babylon unto Christ fourteen generations. Matthew 1:17 (ARV) “All roads lead to Rome”…everybody knew that in Matthew’s day. Everybody, except Matthew! Well, after all, he is a stubborn, […]
ORDINATION IN A HUDDLE By this time our 1962 class of candidates have all been ordained. Did you ever witness an ordination ceremony? A congregation is singularly thrilled when a young servant of the Lord is ordained and thus consecrated to the holy ministry of the Word and Sacraments. It is a solemn and impressive […]
NAE PROTESTS SUNDAY SCHOOL MATERIAL FOR ARMED FORCES According to United Evangelical Action. Dr. Robert A. Cook, president of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), has sent a vigorous protest to the chief of Air Force chaplains who is also the chairman of the Armed Forces Chaplains Board, because the chiefs of chaplains have recommended […]
TO CHURCH TWICE EACH SUNDAY?… Our sister churches in the Netherlands are openly facing a problem which also concerns us. Should believers and their families continue the tradition of attending divine worship twice on the Lord’s day? That this “unwritten rule” among the Reformed family of churches is not being observed as faithfully as in […]
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS In last month’s issue we wrote about the drift to evolutionism and higher criticism in the public utterances of some of the leaders in the Reformed Churches of the Netherlands—a denomination with which the Christian Reformed Church has close relationships. In this article we shall discuss certain articles in Gereformeerd Weekblad by Dr. A. […]
Splashed diagonally across the corner of the front cover of the December 8, 1961, issue of Time Magazine directly over the portrait of World Council Architect Visser ’T Hooft, were the words, “The Second Reformation.” This caption describing the Third Assembly of the World Council at New Delhi, India, came from a statement made there […]
And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and thou are dead. Be thou watchful, and establish the things that remain, which were ready to die: […]
And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and none shall shut, and that shutteth and none openeth. I know thy works (behold, I have set before thee a door opened, which […]
And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God: I know they works that thou are neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, […]
Read More Than Conquerors, pp. 97, 98 By way of Summary note the following: (1) In our trip which took us from Ephesus, as a starting-point, via Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea, and so back to Ephesus again, we have covered at least 350 miles. (2) It is not true that each church […]