Premillennialism – Its Definition The second way of understanding the millennium is called PREMILLENNIALISM, that is, the belief that Christ will return before (pre) the millennium. In considering premillennialism, however, we must realize that what is popularly called that today is really a very different thing. It is Dispensationalism. This will be considered later because […]

(This excerpt from the Moderator’s Address on the subject “Is the Spirit of the Lord Straightened?” at the 1982 General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland deals especially with the Reformation, often commemorated in October. It is reprinted from the Free Church’s July/August Monthly Record.) Now, we have no hesitation in asserting that the […]

The title of this article was the subject of a debate and discussion at the August 10–12 Convention of Christian Schools International and the Association of Christian School Administrators, held this year at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario. The subject has been under discussion for some time in the Christian schools’ organization, articles in our last November […]

JEHOVAH’S COMING TO JERUSALEM Lesson 5 Psalm 24:7–10 David and the Ark David was anointed king and reigned over the tribe of Judah for seven years. The house of Saul, though doomed to failure—he was of the tribe of Benjamin—still held on to the rest of the house of Israel. It is true that in […]

FOR WHOM AND TO WHOM DOES A SYNOD SPEAK? That is the important question addressed by Dr. K. Runia in an article in Centraal Weekblad van de Gereformeerde Kerken and reported by Rev. Anthony De Jager in De Wachter of 22 June, 1982. Like many of the denominations in America, the Gereformeerde Kerken in the […]

It is not the resurrection and the virgin birth which will be subjected to the first blows of the attack by unbelievers. The devil is not stupid. He knows very well that God’s people will react powerfully to any overt attack that is made upon these anchor truths of Christianity. That is why he first […]

“I know that the Lord has given this land to you.” Joshua 2:8 It doesn’t sound quite right, does it, that the Christian church should listen to a prostitute? Of course, she was a converted prostitute, and it is her faith that God wants the Israelites to know about, in order that it may be […]

Basic Principles Although there were some variances in emphases, there are basic principles of agreement in the Reformers’ views of education. 1. A high regard for education as a means in promoting Scriptural Christianity. All the Reformers, without exception, placed a high premium on education as a vehicle to promote the faith of Scripture. In […]

Speaking at a Retreat near Lake Louise, Harry Antonides of the Christian Labor Association of Canada gave five hours of lectures on the roots and developments of the Social Gospel and its contemporary manifestation in Canada. The material helped one to understand the history of the church in Canada and the current over-emphasis on social-political-economic […]

“Education,” Albert Edward Wiggam once wrote, “appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.” To this indictment J. Gresham Machen would have subscribed with a fervent Amen. He viewed with alarm and disdain progressive education’s stress on method at the sacrifice of subject matter. He […]