New Report on a Report I recently obtained a copy of an imposing 25-page document entitled, “Report to the Six Midwest Reformed Classes on the 1972 Report 44 on the Nature and extent of Biblical Authority.” Why should anyone want to resurrect a document about which there was a good deal of discussion and often wearisome […]
No doctrine has been more opposed, misrepresented, or caricatured than the doctrine of predestination. To mention it to some people is like waving the proverbial red flag before an enraged bull. One reason why many people are so opposed to predestination is because they simply do not know what this doctrine is. Such ignorance […]
Anthony R. Dallison B. D. is a Presbyterian minister at Box 1064, King City, Ontairo, Canada LOG JKO. This address which he sent to us was given at a conference in Glasgow, Scotland, September 6, 1975. “When I use a word,” said Humpty Dumpty to Alice on her journey through Wonderland, “it means just what I […]
The Parable of the Unrighteous Judge and the Widow Lesson 11 Luke 18:1–8 Both this parable and the following one deal with the subject of prayer. This subject is approached from different sides in each parable. Jesus emphasizes the necessity of persistent prayer in this parable, and in the next one He emphasizes the need […]
“He shall have dominion . . . from sea to sea . . .” (Ps. 72:8). A Canadian Epic From Sea unto Sea is the title of perhaps the best in a four-volume, popular and exceedingly well-written series of Canadian histories. The account of the relatively recent spread of European civilization across North America is […]
Donald Macleod’s Tribute Rev. Donald Macleod, gifted editor of the MonthLy Record of the Free Church of Scotland pays high but discriminating tribute to Dr. D.M. Lloyd-Jones in the October 1983 issue of that publication. “It is curious that in a day of small things God gave the church a preacher such as Dr. Martyn […]
It has never happened in the one hundred twenty-seven years of Christian Reformed Church history. Never before has our denomination been targeted by a single–issue pressure group. Never before has a group of such highly-organized and sorely-dissatisfied church members worked so hard to change one of the most time-honored practices within Reformed circles. Of what […]
He was very much afraid of debt. It was not in his style of living . He wore a beard, I never knew him without one. It was the style those days. Such was evidently not the case in England if the story about Jacob Cats, the household poet of the Netherlands, is true. Cats […]
ARE VALUES LOSING VALUE? This is the title of an article by Lynn R. Buzzard, Director of the Christian Legal Society, in the December issue of Eternity. Mr. Buzzard alerts his readers to the extremes to which opposition to discrimination tends to go in these days. He points out that legislation and court action against […]
“The Cherubim are to face each other looking toward the cover.” Exodus 25:20. We who live in the New Testament can still learn much from the Old Testament. This is true even though the New Testament is the fulfillment of the Old. The apostle Paul compares the church of the O.T. with a minor, a […]