This is a reprint of the first article in the first issue of our magazine which came out as Torch and Trumpet, April–May 1951. Board members who fead it recently observed how well it described the situation that prompted our organization and printing venture and the objectives that they sought to achieve. After the lapse […]
This unusual question was asked by some young men. They were sent from Bethel to ask the priests and prophets at Jerusalem concerning a liturgical custom (Zech. 7). This question arose because of conditions in the land. This was a time of joy. The temple had been rebuilt. The city walls were restored. Israel as […]
As the world‘s attention is being drawn to the Arab world because of its oil wealth and influence we appreciate this report from the wife of our Arabic Radio minister as she calls attention to our growing opportunity to bring the gospel there. Radio‘s New Opportunity Radio has given us the means to emulate an […]
Women have come a long way, considering that according to the comics the cavemen used to drag their women along by the hair. Now in our Western world they have the right to vote, the right to work, the right to drink and smoke. Simple people like myself cannot help wondering where all this equality business […]
Rev. Harlan G. Vanden Einde is pastor of the Oakdale Park Christian Reformed Church of Grand Rapids, Michigan. “WHAT ABOUT TOTAL DEPRAVITY?” From a Michigan reader comes a question about total depravity. In the context of the letter from which the question comes, there are a considerable number of references to Scripture which point to […]
Every Christian Reformed Consistory member has again received a copy of the 1978 Synod Agenda. One wonders how many even of the delegates to that meeting will work through its 496 pages. To help consistory members as well as other readers to get acquainted with the synod’s coming business, THE OUTLOOK, as it has done […]
Recently at church, a good friend drew me aside and said, “The URC (United Reformed Church) is an old man‘s movement.” Then he added that he himself was going on eighty-five and that he had no more fight left in him. A bit doggedly I countered by stating my conviction that the URC is God‘s movement. […]
It was supper time; we were at the family meal when the phone rang–another one of these inconvenient interruptions that is so common in the parsonage. There was a young man on the phone wanting to talk to the pastor. He had a question, “Could be partake with the congregation at the Table of the […]
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6, 7 (NIV) What a tremendous statement! Worry about nothing! Either it is completely unrealistic, […]
Should the CRC now decide to make the office of deacon available to women? This is not merely a theoretical or abstract question, but rather it is practical and very urgent right now. Why? Because the 1978 CRC Synod is faced with a recommendation from a study committee that this now be done. The committee on Women […]