The Christian who examines the geological and archaeological evidence produced by the scientists of today will often encounter intellectual problems that challenge his faith. The way these humanistically programmed scholars interpret their findings makes the historical existence of Adam and Eve appear impossible. But Reformed Christians should perceive more clearly than most, that all man’s […]

New Protest Marches In our Reformed circles here in North America, we shall, no doubt soon, be hearing pleas that we join in the peace and disarmament movements which are already so vocal in Europe. All throughout Western Europe the fall of 1981 was marked by large scale protest marches against the NATO Alliance and […]

John G. Kruis is the pastor of the Christian Reformed Church at Sussex, New Jersey, and a member of the National Association of Nouthetic Counselors. Nouthetic Counseling is the method of Biblical counseling developed and promoted especially by Dr. Jay E. Adams. The word “nouthetic” was coined from the Greek word which is translated “admonish” […]

I believe many consistories and members of the church rue the day that synod ever appointed a standing Liturgical Committee, and gave it an almost unlimited mandate. I really believe that much of their effort is a waste of time and money. I believe it’s time the members of this committee get their walking papers. […]

Pressures Toward Toleration From many quarters we are being pressed to abandon the traditional Christian conviction that homosexual practice is morally wrong, and to tolerate it. Recently TV’s Donahue in interviewing a popular evangelist regaled his sophisticated audience with some clips of the preacher’s Biblical denunciations of homosexual practice. Donahue’s closing remark was that when […]

On March 11–13 and 19–20 the Calvin College Thespians presented the musical drama Godspell in Calvin’s Gezon Auditorium. In this play actors represent Jesus and His disciples as clowns. The performance may indeed, as the student paper Chimes in its enthusiastic review observed, recall old morality plays, carry a religious message, be “based on the […]

I want to touch on a few aspects that ought not to be overlooked in the current debate about women in ecclesiastical office. 1. The argument has been somewhat in vogue among the proponents of women in office that their opponents are wasting a lot of time and energy on a rather (what they consider […]

The beginning of the Noordeloos Christian Reformed Church is closely associated with its first minister, the Rev. Koene Vanden Bosch. In 1856 the early settlers, living in an area approximately four miles northwest of Zeeland, Michigan, learned that the Rev. K. Vanden Bosch, then serving the Christelyke Afgescheidenen Church of Noordeloos in South Holland, the […]

And he led them ou t as far as Bethany and he lifted up his hands and blessed them. And it came to pass while he blessed them he was parted from them and carried up into heaven. And they worshipped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy. Luke 24:50–52 Some experiences we never […]

David B. Cummings is the pastor of the Grace Orthodox Presbyterian Church of Hanover Park, Illinois. While The Outlook does not ordinarily place movie reviews, the Editorial Committee decided to print this excellent analysis of one of the most extraordinary films, which has received high praise from Christian magazines as well as secular critics. This […]