Our group gathered in Brussels and flew over Africa through the night to Johannesburg arriving early in the morning. Since it was the middle of November, 1984, it was the spring of the year. When we returned several weeks later, it was a few days from the longest day of the year. The whole country […]
A Little Plain Talk About the Church Anyone who is no stranger in Jerusalem knows that not all things are well in the CRC of late; we seem to be more and more bent on following the example of our “mother” church in the Netherlands: women in office, children at the Lord’s Supper, soft on […]
The winter meeting of the Committee for Women in the C.R.C. took place on January 27 at Calvin Seminary. The chief feature of the evening’s program was an address by the Alvin J. Vander Griend on the subject, “The Full Use of Women’s Gifts.” Dr. Vander Griend is Associate Minister of Evangelism for the Board […]
The congregations of the Christian Reformed denomination are bound together as a family of churches by the three Forms of UNITY, that is, by what the churches together confess to be the teaching of the Bible. It is that and that alone which unites us. To be sure, a common national background once served us […]
We, Art Bauman, Dirk Vander Steen and I, are in Papua, New Guinea on a fact-finding and visual aid project so that we can better publicize what God is doing through the Pacific Island Ministries. We have all heard of the work—but to see what is being done and to be present at some of […]
Lesson 15 CHRIST’S HIGHPRIESTLY PRAYER I John 17:1–19 No discussion of prayer would be complete without a treatment of perhaps the most beautiful prayer ever uttered, and that by our Savior. It is difficult to make any divisions in this prayer because it is like the robe of Christ “without seam, woven from the top […]
The English word “peace” is a word with a rich meaning. It is related to the French word “paix” and both these words go back to the Latin “pax.” We are not at this time interested in examining the range of meaning of the English word “peace” however. It is our purpose to examine the […]
LOUIS PRAAMSMA 1910–1984 – It pleased the Lord of life to take to Himself a good and faithful servant, Dr. Louis Praamsma, a solidly Reformed pastor, preacher, writer, teacher, and that in three countries: The Netherlands, Canada and the United States of America. I could attempt to say a few things in his honor, but […]
I had not thought when reviewing Barbara Villet‘s extraordinary book, Blood River, last fall (January OUTLOOK) that its subject, South Africa, was about to receive the extraordinary attention that it has been getting in current news. Bishop Desmond Tutu Figuring prominently in much of the recent publicity has been the black Anglican bishop of Johannesburg, […]