Another year has passed and a new one lies ahead. What will it bring? What will we experience, if we may live, in the months, weeks and days ahead? Such questions arise in our minds, often accompanied with anxieties and fears. What will happen in the world at large, in our own country, and, last […]
Dr. Clayton Libolt gained notoriety in the Christian Reformed Churches when the 1981 synod denied his application for candidacy for the gospel ministry. He was rejected after he stated in his examination that he would not hold the Genesis Adam and Eve story to be “real” in the sense that his questioner intended. On the […]
C.R.C. History You may agree that the condition of the church is bad in Holland, but surely this will never happen to our church here in Canada and U.S.A. Things are different here. But are they? Let the Acts of our Synods speak, and then you can judge for yourselves. In 1922 our Synod also […]
THE GLORIOUS REIGN OF KING MESSIAH Lesson 11 Psalm 72:1–11 There is some question whether David wrote this Psalm or whether we are to ascribe it to Solomon. It is safe to say that Solomon was the subject of this Psalm and that the coming Messiah is also the subject of it. Types of Christ […]
This address was given at the annual meeting of the Reformed Fellowship on Thursday afternoon, Oct. 14, 1982, at the Kelloggsville C.R. Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Mr. Ingeneri is Director of Education and Evangelism at the Seymour C.R. Church at Grand Rapids, a student at Calvin Theological Seminary, and a board member of the […]
Protection Against Poisons The death of several people by taking the popular drug Tylenol which someone had laced with cyanide has sent shock waves across the whole country as many realize how vulnerable we are to being poisoned by the many packaged drugs we buy in countless stores. There has been talk of taking […]
GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE Little Grove City College of Pennsylvania has been struggling for five years against the U.S. Department of Education. According to Christian Herald of October 1982, the college lost a decision in a federal court of appeals. The court ruled that although the college accepts no government funding, it is a recipient of federal […]
MARKINGS ON A LONG JOURNEY WRITINGS OF JOHN J. TIMMERMAN; Rodney J . Mulder and John H. Timmerman, Editors; Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, Michigan: 300 pages, $9.95. Reviewed by John Vander Ploeg. Timmerman’s excellence in style, his magnanimous spirit that shines through, his knowledgeable comments in the field of literature, and his healthy Christian […]