Before the “open season” on unborn children was declared by our supreme court, there was an “open season” against the “unwanted children” of another age. Not being quite so sophisticated as the modern abortionists, people had to wait until the child was born and then kill him. Why him? Because the males were the “unwanted,” […]
The 1985 Synod of the Christian Reformed church decided to send a pastoral letter, according to the July 1, 1985 Banner, to seek peace. The letter in its first paragraph talks about key issues that cause division in the church, and the synod expresses deep regrets about these divisions. How sincere are these expressions of […]
Nee-Evangelical Missiology and the Christian Mission to Islam During the last two decades, some severe criticisms have been levelled at the missionary work which has been undertaken since the days of William Carey. We are told by these critics, for example, that missions among Muslims have been a failure. Most missionaries in the past, the […]
I. Introduction Let me begin by thanking you for the invitation to speak here this afternoon. I thank you in particular because I feel at home here. The Reformed Fellowship represents a very significant organization in the life of the Christian Reformed Church. It represents, I believe, this church’s tradition, this church’s majority membership, and […]
Did you ever hear of people having a tail? It may seem strange, but we do. But only when we are very small, long before we are born. So let’s look at what the situation is at our beginning stages. After the human ovum is fertilized it takes about four days to travel […]
“The Lord is my shepherd, I shall lack nothing” Ps. 23:1. Likely no psalm is better known than Psalm 23. It is one ofthe first psalms many of us memorized when young, and is considered to be one of the gems of Scripture. Probably it was written by David when he was an older man […]
Since his retirement from editing the denominational Banner, Dr. Lester De Koster, has spoken extensively on church developments. On October 22 he addressed the large Mass Meeting of the Southwest Rural League of men’s societies at the Beverly Church in Wyoming, Michigan on the subject, “Report 44: Where Are We Now?” The Hermeneutics of Obedience […]
The Bible’s Teaching About the Believer’s Office Our Lord taught us that when we face important questions about which there are confused opinions we need to go back to the beginnings and see what God’s Word says about His creative purpose. That is the way He treated the knotty questions about divorce in Matthew 19. […]
Lesson 9 PHILIP AND THE ETHIOPIAN EUNUCH Acts 8:25–40 After the episode recorded in the first part of this chapter, Peter and John stay in this city of Samaria for an apparently short time. But, while here, they testify and speak the word of the Lord. They then return to Jerusalem to resume their work […]
The question asked 25 years ago was, “What could happen to our church if . . . S.W.I.M. would catch fire and get started throughout the denomination?”1 Taking a quick look back over what has happened since the summer of 1960, makes the above question almost seem rhetorical. Ten young people from Northwest […]