The Equal Rights Amendment has attracted national attention in recent days. The Republican Party at its National Convention removed from its platform support for the ERA. Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan made it clear that the GOP was not thereby removing its support for women’s rights, but was, in fact, promoting women’s rights by protecting women […]
The question may come as a surprise, but it is being seriously raised by the Christian Reformed Churches’ Belgic Confession Translation Committee which in its 1979 Report alleged that the Reformed Churches have for over 400 years been holding as their official confession a wrong and inferior version of that creed. Faced with the assignment […]
(Translation of Prof. C. Veenhofs Om Kerk to Blijven) The church, let it be remembered, is the fellowship of those for whom Christ has become all in all. This makes it radically different from and much more than a company of people who happen to profess and defend the same orthodox ideas and insights. All […]
Many words in the Bible have more than one meaning. For instance: The primary use of the word “Pastor” is for shepherd, of “Elder” is for old men and women and of “Deacon” is for servant. If we do not consider the difference between primary and other uses of words, then all shepherds will be […]
“Abraham said unto him, They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them” (Luke 16:29). Questions about “the Other Side” Who has never thought about what lies on the other side of the grave? Or even, perhaps, asked himself, “Are we sure that there is another side?” Many times the thought has passed through […]
With much interest I read the article of the Reverend W. Haverkamp in THE BANNER of April 25, 1980 with regard to the homosexual problem and the stand taken on it by the Reformed Church of the Netherlands. I am referring to this article because it gave renewed impetus to my concern which I have […]
Lesson 5 I Thessalonians 4:1–12 In all of the Pauline epistles there is a doctrinal section and a section dealing with the practical life of those whom he is addressing. Usually the doctrinal section comes first according to the rule: the practical life is based on the doctrines which are confessed. In this epistle he […]
Introduction In this series of articles on Church growth in the Christian Reformed Churches around the world we can also include an analysis of a sister church to which the CRC has historical, ethnic, theological and ecclesiastical ties. Like the CRC, the GKN is a product of the Afscheiding (Secession) of 1834 and the Doleantie […]
The Great Salvation Salvation is a complex and many-sided thing. Christ’s own teachings clearly demonstrate this fact. Nor are the Pauline doctrines less comprehensive. Salvation has a past, a present and a future. It involves a justification which God effects outside of us (for us), a sanctification which Christ effects in us, and a glorification […]
THE LIVES OF PHILIP AND MATTHEW HENRY, by J. B. Williams. Banner of Truth, Edinburgh. 1974. xlvili + 488 + xxxii + 323 pages, $11.95. THE LIFE AND LABOURS OF ASAHEL NETTLETON, by Bennet Tyler and Andre’v Bonar. Banner of Truth, Edinburgh. 1975. xvi +454 pages. $8.50. Reviewed by Rev. Jerome Julien, pastor of the First […]