“That night the king could not sleep” (Esther 6:1). For one reason or another the king could not sleep. “So what?” somebody might say. “Doesn’t this happen to millions of people every night?” It’s common knowledge that people spend millions of dollars for sleeping pills to remedy this problem. Also that as people get older […]
As long as the Church has existed on earth there have been tensions in it. That is so because it has many enemies without and within. Satan sees to it that there will be tensions. So why write about something so old and commonplace? We address ourselves to this subject because the cause of tensions […]
CHRIST’S BELIEVERS AND CHURCH “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved . . .” was the gospel promise brought by the Lord’s missionaries . IfI believe in Christ and so am restored in the office of believer to know, love and serve God as His prophet, priest and king, what, if anything, does […]
I am the first prophet whom the Bible mentions. Being a very godly and devout man (My Name means “dedication”), I prophesied: See the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones to judge everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly acts they have done in the ungodly […]
Neo-Evangelical Missiology and the Christian Mission to Islam II. The Theological Perspective Neo-evangelical missiologists would like the church to embark on new ways in missions to Muslims since they claim that the old methods of the last 200 years have been faulty. As we have noticed in Part I of this paper, a careful study […]
I. Introduction A recent article in The Banner, commenting on women in office, suggested that with this issue the Christian Reformed Church has entered a new stage of “tradition-forming” in Reformed church history, similar to that caused in earlier centuries by “the introduction of new forms of prayer or new words for the Trinity.”1 The […]
To address you tonight on behalf of the Reformed Fellowship gives me great pleasure, as I am among like-minded Christians who are keenly interested in a subject, which in my judgment, touches a cancer that is eating away at the heart and mission of the Church in today’s world. I speak to you as a […]
The editor of the Question and Answer page in The Banner, Rev. Wm. D. Buursma, is generally quite flexible in his views. He is not one to dot the theological “i’s” when it comes to Reformed orthodoxy. Far from it. The warning found in Rev. 22:18, 19 does not really apply to the whole […]
COLLECTED WRITINGS OF JOHN MURRAY, Vol. 4 Studies in Theology, published by The Banner ofTruth Trust, 3 Murrayfield Rd., Edinburgh, Scotland EH12 6EL. P.O. Box 621, Carlisle, PA After John Murray’s death it was decided to publish a volume of his miscellaneous shorter writings. When those writings were examined in order to make such a […]
October 25, 1985 In the past few months I received two anonymous letters. Generally anonymous letters are bitter, spiteful, and brimming with hate. Their writers are often filled with (self) righteousness but lacking in personal responsibility. That is why, as a rule, ministers wince when they receive such missives, especially if they suspect the author […]