FROM NEW ZEALAND Dear Brother Peter: Greetings from down under from the land of the Kiwis. It’s the middle of winter here but the temperatures during the day rise into the 50s and 60s. We do have frequent frosts but they are as the locals say “ground frosts,” the result is that almost everything remains green […]
Jehoshaphat was a great reformer-king whose dedication to the Lord’s service brought peace and prosperity to his people, but his weakness and what proved to be fatal mistake was his broad “ecumenical” sympathy which prompted him to make common cause with Israel’s Ahab and Jezebel, to the ruin of his family and people. God’s prophet […]
Rev. John Vander Ploeg served the Church faithfully and well for fifty–three years in the ministry of the gospel. He went to be with his Lord on Monday, September 26, 1983 some seven months after his wife of fifty-four years passed away. He was a delightful man to know, and he had a sharp mind […]
Recent articles in the secular press have unmasked the World Council of Churches and the National Council of Churches.1 Their support of terrorism and marxist ideology is now more than ever openly exposed. For a long time they have trampled the Gospel of Jesus Christ underfoot, but at last even the lethargic members of many […]
“Neither say they within their heart, Let us now fear Jehovah our God, that giveth rain both the former and the latter in its season” (Jeremiah 5:24). Our special Thanksgiving services began with our pilgrim fathers in the fall of 1621. Governor Bradford arose early to prepare himself by prayer and meditation for a special […]
Needed Reform In our classes on Church History the late Prof. D.H. Kromminga urged that the most painful problem facing God’s people today is “the brokenness of the church.” Its oneness in her Lord is being torn to sh reds both from without and from within. And nowhere is that seen so plainly as on […]
In a recent issue of The Banner (7/18/83) an article appeared that brought my thoughts back to an incident that happened in our family life. In a family of ten children my brother just before me was a baby of a few months old. My parents had a bedroom upstairs where the chimney rested […]
“PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH U.S.A.: SINCERELY WRONG” is the title of the Editorial of Moody Monthly for September 1983. Jerry B. Jenkins comments on some paragraphs from a lengthy document on the implications of genetic research and human engineering. The !95th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church USA adopted resolutions based on this three year study by […]
In the death of J .G. Vos on June 8, the Lord has taken from among us one of the truly great Reformed leaders of our time. His death , at the age of 80, passed almost unnoticed outside of his immediate circle. (We first learned of it on the arrival of the August Banner […]