“And he (Elijah) lay down under a juniper tree; and, behold, an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat. And he looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water. And he did eat and drink and laid him down again. And […]
Edward Heerema, retired pastor living at Cape Coral, Florida begins a series of articles dealing with what promises to be a major issue at the next Christian Reformed synod—the issue of women in church office. An hour of decision for the Christian Reformed Church is due in June 1981. Then the synod is scheduled to […]
A certain man had a son; and the son said unto his father, “Separate me, I pray, from my stewardship as a Christian intellectual, that my faith reproach me not in my discipline.” So his father loosed him from his birthright. And it came to pass, not many days hence, that the son fell under […]
Lesson 13 – II Thessalonians 2:6–12 In the previous verses the author had spoken of the nature of the man of sin who will come before our Lord returns. The question may well rise in the minds of the readers: Why is his coming delayed until the time just before the return of Christ? Paul […]
In the pastoral ministry I have often observed much confusion in the minds of God’s people regarding the “unpardonable sin.” Professor R. B. Kuiper, who was President of Westminster Theological Seminary and later President of Calvin Theological Seminary, suggested that a faithful minister of the Word should preach a sermon on this subject at least […]
Rev. Neal Punt is pastor of the Evergreen Park Christian Reformed Church, Evergreen Park, Illinois. Recently (1980) he authored a 169 page book published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Unconditional Good News with the subtitle, Toward an Understanding of Biblical Universalism ($6.95). By request, I am addressing myself to an evaluation […]
LITERATURE AND THE GOSPEL by Merle Meeter. Published by Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., Box 185, Nutley, NJ 07110. 168 pages, paperback, $3.50. Reviewed by Peter De Jong. The Problem of Christian Education Many of us are familiar with the problem of first getting and then continuing to maintain a Christian School for the train […]