This article is an adaptation of a speech delivered on October 1, 1981, at the annual Reformed Fellowship Meeting in the Kelloggsville CRC. Its author, Nelson D. Kloosterman, is pastor of the Immanuel CRC of Sheldon, IA, and is secretary of the Board of the Mid-America Reformed Seminary. It is no overstatement to say that […]
The rise and growth of the Christian church in Korea has been one of the great success stories of missionary history. Samuel Moffatt, writing in the October 2 Christianity Today, informs us that Korea’s Christian grow four times as fast as the population, that six out of seven of them are Protestants and half of […]
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace among men with whom he is pleased!” Luke 2:13, 14 How utterly amazed these shepherds must have been by the appearance of the angels on that first Christmas […]
It was about a year ago that I was asked to write a report on the RES meeting in Nimes, France. At that Synod, I had served as a non–voting delegate of the Christian Reformed Church. I had deferred the writing of the report until I had in my hands a copy of the RES […]
John Vander Ploeg, Jr., President of Ship-Pac Corporation of Kalamazoo, and former President of the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee, is the son of Rev. John Vander Ploeg, the former editor of THE OUTLOOK. This is his afternoon address at the Oct. 1, 1981, annual meeting of the Reformed Fellowship in the Kelloggsville Church. It […]
PAUL’S PRAYER FOR THE EPHESIAN CHURCH Lesson 7 Ephesians 3:14–21 The main task which the Lord has given the apos.ties to do is to teach and proclaim the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ. However, there was also a priestly work to be done to build up the church which the Lord had established. It is […]
Although the Psalms were written many years ago, in an age and culture very different from ours, they still speak to Christians today. The Psalms are timeless, for they express the whole range of human feelings and experiences—from dark doubts and deep depression to exuberant joy and thankful praise. Today, Christian experience the same emotions. […]
Often when I am asked about my work and I say, “I teach English,” my questioner flinches a bit and backs off. I sense I am someone to be feared. I teach a dreadful subject . . . one that many have failed and fear failing again. Why does the study of one’s […]