This completes the “Testimony” of which the first half was printed in October. The “Testimony” is the result of long discussion and a year of work by a committee and has been endorsed by over 40 Christian Reformed ministers who say that it expresses substantially their convictions on major issues that confront our churches today. […]
Paul lngeneri is Director of Education and Evangelism for the Seymour Christian Reformed Church, Grand Rapids, Mich., for the last two and a half years and a Master of Church Education student at Calvin Seminary. He was born in the Boston area, grew up as n Roman Catholic and was led by a liberal college […]
An Important Question Does Romans 7:14–25 describe the experience of a regenerate man who is speaking in this passage? The answer to this question is very important, for it colors one’s views on several key doctrines of the Christian faith. Charles Hodge may say that “there is nothing in the view [namely that Paul is […]
“Witnessing” There appears among our churches a growing concern for evangelism. One can only welcome efforts of church members to speak up for Christ wherever He gives them the opportunity to do so. Such activity is commonly being called “witnessing” and our churches are in various ways encouraging such “personal witnessing.” While the activity is […]
And Gideon made an ephod thereof and put it in his city, even in Ophrah, and all Israel played the harlot after it there, and it became a snare unto Gideon and his house. Judges 8:27 What a giant of faith this man had been! With his small band, without any equipment for warfare, he “risked” his […]
One becomes accustomed nowadays to reading a lot of outlandish nonsense about women’s rights and women‘s ordination, and most of the time it’s best to shrug one’s shoulders and smile a bit. Many columnists and newswriters betray their total ignorance of biblical norms. One would expect something different, however, when the writer is a confessed […]
In our last article we saw that what some see as “progress” in the CRC, others label as alarming “regress.” We noted that a basic incompatibility on the doctrine of the authority of Scripture was responsible for disturbing decisions and positions taken by the CRC in recent days. The focus of controversy at this year’s Synod […]
SYNOD REPORT UNFAIR? August 28, 1978 THE OUTLOOK Rev. Peter De Jong, Editor Dutton, MI 49511 Box 34 Dear Rev. De Jong: In the August, 1978 issue of THE OUTLOOK, page Seven, it is reported that at the Synod of 1978 I spoke of my fervent desire that the church would very soon open the […]
DE DINGEN DIE ONS VAN GOD GESCHONKEN ZIJN. Catechism Sermons on the 52 Lord’s Days of the Heidelberg Catechism. Author B. Holwerda. Reviewed by John De Pater, Escalon, California. This book of sermons will become of great value to Reformed Christians in America with its forthcoming translation in the English language to be published by […]