An Article on this subject appeared in our January OUTLOOK (p. 20). It was written by a seminary student after a critical study of this Testimony by a number of the students and it elicited an extraordinary amount of interest and responses from our readers. Now an article by another seminarian sheds further light on […]
TENSIONS IN THE CHURCHES Dear Mr. Editor: Please allow me to respond to a number of faulty syllogisms and misconceptions as presented by brother Tuininga in his article, “Tensions in the Church.” in the February issue of the Outlook. It is true that unfamiliarity causes tension. The Christian life, including worship, will always be one […]
“Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ” (Gal. 6:2). Paul‘s letter to the Galatians was prompted by inroads made into the new Christian churches by people called Judaizers. They were Jewish people in the church who insisted that Gentile converts to the Christian faith had to submit […]
A bureau is a unit created by a community to serve certain specific needs. Such a bureau can be called a board or an agency or a department, all meaning the same thing, namely an entity made and maintained to serve the whole. In the CRC we call our bureaus by various names: committees, boards, […]
In the January 18 Reformatie, H. VanVeen called attention to and briefly summarized an extraordinarily interesting study of this subject by Professor W. Van’t Spijker.1 The work of Van’t Spijker was a careful investigation to determine in how far John Calvin was a pupil of Martin Luther who went on independently to formulate the Christian […]
Some of the signs that precede the second coming of Christ will appear not because of Christian effort, but in spite of it. One could mention the great apostasy, the great tribulation, and the unveiling of the Antichrist. But there are other events which, according to Scripture, must take place before Christ returns, and these […]
I am a man of contradictory statements; so listen to what was said of me and tell me who I am. You’re a man, aren’t you? And Who is like you in Israel? Why didn’t you guard your Lord the King? Someone came to destroy your Lord the King. What you have done is not […]
NO DISCRIMINATION AGAINST HOMOSEXUALS “Juicy stories” out of the “old country” (Netherlands) are easy to come by these days. They always shock some of us who identify the Fatherland with godly grandparents. I’ll never forget the first time I heard someone use profane, blasphemous words in the Dutch language. I felt like telling him that […]
For some years already this question has been under discussion in our circles. If my analysis of the situation is correct, then there was more agitation for admitting children to the Lord’s Supper in the late 60’s and early 70’s than there is at present. Nevertheless, the issue continues to surface in our circles, and […]
Two months before the annual denominational synod is to meet the agenda of materials with which it must deal have been published, to be made available to all who hold special church offices. As usual, the OUTLOOK surveys this (496-page) book. Back-to-God Broadcasting The first of the reports gives account of the denominational broadcasts “in […]