Rev. John H. Engbers, pastor of the Calvin Christian Reformed Church of Rock Valley Iowa, delivered this article as an address at a public meeting at the Grandville Avenue Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan on September 27 at the time of the Annual Meeting of Reformed Fellowship, Inc. As you may know, I am a […]

Why put “Honestly now” in the title above these lines? Well, when you think for even just a moment of all the sham, the tomfoolery, and the humbug in today’s Christmas, it’s probably not superfluous to do so. December means Christmas. And Christmas means goodwill, tolerance, peace, and a moratorium on all our differences while […]

The times in which we as a Christian Reformed Church live and work and love are times of wars and rumors of wars; times of affluence and poverty; times of success and of frustration; times of stress and of quiet; times of loyalty and of apostasy. We cannot really get a comprehensive picture of it […]

Tn the August issue of THE OUTLOOK the editor, Rev. John Vander Ploeg, addressed three questions to the members of the Synod of 1973, the editors of The Banner and De Wachter, and members of the synodical study committee on homosexuality. These questions are significant and basic to the pastoral statements adopted by Synod. Such […]

To find any item listed in this index note the numbers following the item, such as 6:2. This means you will find what you are looking for in the June issue (6) on page 2. Or, for 2–3:28, you will look at the February-March issue (2, 3) on page 28. AUTHORS ACBA, PAUL P. New […]

Who is He? Where did He come from? Why did He come? What did He do? Where did He go? Mystery of mysteries! He is God with us. He is the Word become flesh. He came from heaven, having emptied Himself of His glory for a time, and having taken on a human nature. He […]