John B. Ham received the AB degree at Calvin College, the MA at the University of Michigan, and the MS at Michigan State University. He taught for 15 years in Christian schools and later taught Ornithology (the scientific study of birds) and Zoology at Grand Rapids Junior College, Grand Valley State College, Aquinas College and […]
I am deeply grateful for the invitation extended to me by the Holland-Zeeland Chapter of Reformed Fellowship to address you tonight. It was in the spring of 1951 while I was a student at Grand Rapids Christian High School that Dr. Leonard Greenway, one of the founders of the Reformed Fellowship gave me a complimentary […]
“Then everyone deserted Him and fled. A young man wearing nothing but a linen garment, was following Jesus. When they seized him, he fled naked, leaving his garment behind” (Mark 14:50, 51). The emphasis in this short but important passage falls on several words. There is the word then (then they deserted him), also the word […]
Many pastors and laypeople are aware that a struggle exists between those who hold to the position of the historical Lutheran church and those who support a more moderate view. However, many members of our church are not clear regarding the nature of the controversy. We have provided a description on this controversy in which […]
Mid-America Reformed Seminary began with four students last September. When her second semester begins in February, she will have at least eight students-seven full time and one part time. The original students came from Iowa, Florida, and California. The incoming students are from Korea, Michigan, California, and Iowa. Sun Myong Kim is the son of […]
Introduction About two years ago I wrote about a most vexing problem in the CRC: women in ecclesiastical office. I entitled the article “The Watershed” (Outlook, June, 1981 , p.8). It began, ‘Watershed’ has been defined as a ‘critical decisive point; a turning point.’ If that definition is true, then we may have before us at […]
Authority is a difficult subject to write about. It is a difficult subject, and it is difficult to exercise. There’s too much or too little. It is too severely exercised, or too leniently, too autocratically or too democratically. And it seems easy for a person to bypass proper authority and to live as if he […]
A continuing problem confronting Christian churches is the relationships which they have, or ought to have, with other churches. It is often called the “ecumenical” problem. Our Lord prayed that His followers might be one (John 17:21–24). What is often overlooked in the frequent allusions to that prayer is that in it the Lord prayed […]
SCIENCE AND PSEUDOSCIENCE is the title of an article in The Reformed Journal for November, 1982, by Richard H. Buhe. He points out that “pseudoscience is counterfeit science,” that sounds like true science, but lacks the integrity of authentic science. He shows that it often has a great appeal to Christians when it claims to […]
THE REJECTED STONE EXALTED Lesson 15 Psalm 118:19–24 Most scholars believe that this Psalm was written after the exile when Israel again came to their own land and the temple had been rebuilt. It was a very important song for Israel’s liturgy because it expressed certain things which had not been spoken of before. There […]