Writing in The Grand Rapids Press (March 17, 1975) the well-known columnist James Reston reports the following: “The National Center for Health Statistics of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare has just reported that there were 970,000 divorces in the United States in 1974, compared with 913,000 in 1973, and 479,000 in 1965.” Can […]
Rev. Jerome M. Julien, a board member and fanner secretary of Reformed Fellowship, Inc., is now serving as pastor of the large First Christian Reformed Church of Pella, Iowa. THE OUTLOOK takes the liberty of reprinting the following item by him from Pella One, a monthly publication for members and friends of the First Pella […]
Dear sir and brother in Christ, It is with great interest and gratitude that I read in the May, 1974 issue of THE OUTLOOK your editorial, “I Too Have a Dream,” and in the September, 1974 issue your editorial, “A Dream, A Dream, A Response, A Request.” I am writing these lines in order to […]
FIVE ESSAYS ON CHRISTIAN EDUCATION by Rev. H. Van Dyken, G. Bonekamp, and H. Bergsma. The Reformed Fellowship of Canada, Rexdale, Ont., 1974, 64 pages (paper), price $ .75. Reviewed by B. E. Brune, Teacher, Lynden Christian School, Lynden, Wash. This booklet consists of five essays addressed to “. . . all those who are […]
WIERSINGA CASE IS PASSED ON TO NEXT SYNOD – The Wiersinga case, which occupied the Synod of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (CKN) in both June and November of last year, was again one of the primary matters on the agenda at the March meeting of Synod. A previous session addressed a letter to […]
Darlene Vandenacre is a confessing member of the Christian Reformed Church of Conrad, Montana. She is a graduate of Conrad High School and plans to attend Dordt College this fall. Her article was originally written for her high school Composition class. There are questions as to the beginning of the world. Evolution and Creation are […]
. . . in whom are all treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden. Colossians 2:3 “Wisdom is the right use of knowledge,” said Charles Spurgeon. And experience teaches us that it is so. Of knowledge there is generally not a shortage among us, but that can hardly be said of wisdom. Extremely valuable is the […]
It is altogether safe to assume that readers of THE OUTLOOK are, without exception, intensely interested in both the pulpit and the pew. And it is equally certain that they become deeply concerned when either or both begin to falter in following the Scriptural pattern for them and especially when the pulpit and the pew […]
“Dented cans, rusted pans, jingle as they fall. We’re a great dump-picking crew, two-hundred million in all.” I pricked up my ears and listened to this queer ditty sung in bass to the tune of Jingle Bells. From my awkward position I could not see the owner of the voice. I had just tumbled headlong […]
Miss Johanna Timmer is the departmental editor in charge of Reformed Women Speak. Mrs. Joseph Folkert, writer of this article, is from Des Plaines, Illinois. Some time ago a pastor was heard defending the use of “pop” music in the church, saying that you have to appeal to our young people. Quietly thinking this over […]