Ministers in America receive endless numbers of mailings from businesses of all sorts hoping to make a bit of money out of some service they want to provide to churches and the clergy. A good many are simply ridiculous. Some, however, are quite disturbing because of the nature of what they are selling. Businessmen tend […]

STONES FOR BREAD (The Social Gospel and its Contemporary Legacy), by Harry Antonides. Published by Paideia Press, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada. Reviewed by Rev. Jelle Tuininga, Lethbridge, Alberta. This book by the director of research and education of the Christian Labor Association of Canada traces the rise of the social gospel movement in Canada at […]

The theme of this year’s Anglican Evangelical Assembly was ‘Rightly handling the Word of Truth.’ The first speaker was Dr. J. I. Packer who presented the approach to Scripture that had been used in the past by Evangelicals in which the Bible is treated as God’s Word written—the objective revealed truth of God—and men are […]

“The HOLY SPIRIT”, Third Person of the Trinity, brings what images to mind? Perhaps Pentecost? Perhaps a thankful heart—for without His working in your heart you would never have believed. When I think of the Holy Spirit, I think of POWER—power that is greater than this world. About me the Bible writes: The “Spirit of […]

CALVIN SEM GETS NEW DEAN IN SPITE OF A NAUGHTY DAUGHTER – “CRC PICKS VAN DYK AS DEAN OF CALVIN SEMINARY.” This is the headline of a page 1 article in the Grand Rapids Press of June 14, 1986. If you know anything about newspaper coverage you would recognize immediately that the Press regards this […]