To find any item listed in this index note the numbers following the item, such as 6:2. This means that you will find what you arc looking for in the June issue (6) on page 2. In the index of book reviews the name in the parenthesis identifies the reviewer. AUTHORS BLANKESPOOR, JOHN Angels’ song, […]
“The two choirs that gave thanks then took their places in the house of God . . . And on that day they offered great sacrifices, rejoicing because God had given them great joy. The women and children also rejoiced. The sound of rejoicing in Jerusalem could be heard far away.” Nehemiah 12:40, 43 As […]
For the church of God, and especially for each local autonomous congregation, God has instituted the office of elder. Their work is to rule, to have “the oversight” over the church, and to administer discipline. From the point of view of the continuity of the church, the work of the elder is the most demanding and, […]
Myron D. Rau in our November issue called attention to a proposal to remove the Reformed creeds from the bases of our Christian schools in an effort to broaden their appeal to non-Reformed people. When a similar proposal was made a decade ago Professor John M. Frame, a delegate to the Christian school convention, alerted […]
In our July, 1981 issue Rev. Jelle Tuininga in an article entitled, “Is the Gospel a Mere Announcement?” cited Biblical and confessional objections to the kind of “Biblical Universalism” advocated by Rev. Neal Punt in his book Unconditional Good News. In this article Rev. J. Tuininga, pastor of the First Christian Reformed Church of Lethbridge, […]
The fall public meeting sponsored by the Committee for Women in the Christian Reformed Church was held in the Calvin Seminary auditorium on October 26. This organization was established to get church offices opened to women and its meeting gave an interesting introduction to one of the most aggressive pressure groups operating in the denomination. […]
Critics of the Bible have long alleged that the book of Genesis is composed of a number of diverse documents, some from a much later date, which do not really fit together. Various kinds of evidence can be cited against this critics’ theory. The October 91, 1981 Grand Rapids Press reported that “A five-year-long computer […]
The word “naive” means an innocent, childlike, unsuspecting, sometimes foolish simplicity that can easily be misled. Rev. Richard E. Knodel, the pastor of an Orthodox Presbyterian Church at Lynchburg, Virginia, writing in the October 14, 1981, Presbyterian Journal, expressed some apprehensions about the prospective merger of his denomination with two other conservative Presbyterian bodies. He […]
THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THE BELIEVER’S AND UNBELIEVER’S LIFE. Lesson 9 Ephesians 4:17–24 The church of Jesus Christ will somehow display a unity in the midst of a hostile world. We often despair of such a unity, but it is a fact despite the fact that there are all manner of branches of that one church […]
WHAT IS THE REFORMED FAITH? by John R. de Witt. The Banner of Truth Trust, Carlisle, PA, and Edinburgh. 1981. 24 pp. paper, $1.45. FIVE ENGLISH REFORMERS, by J. C. Ryle. Banner of Truth, 1890, 1981, 156 pp. paper, $3.95. ECCLESIASTES, by Charles Bridges, Banner of Truth, 1860, 1981, 319 pp. hardcover, $9.95. HOW TO […]