I am an important person in the Bible because more was written to me than any other man in the Bible. My doctor friend wrote an orderly account so that I “may know with certainty of the things” that have been taught. I must have been important because even such a distinguished man as a […]
Few among us would deny the urgent relevance of appeals to preach the Catechism faithfully and regularly. For those committed to God’s Truth and God’s people, this requirement is more than a duty—it is a joy. We can therefore be deeply grateful to those who have recently sounded that appeal in The Outlook of October, […]
(OUTLOOK editorials reprinted from ten years ago) July 1977 An exciting prospect – Suppose that in God’s gracious providence the day would dawn when Reformed Church bodies-of course, I am thin.king particularly of the CRC would experience a drastic housecleaning . . . . and that out of the tensions, all in God’s gracious providence, […]
From a biblical standpoint, one may well question whether we ever should have introduced “the quota system” into our churches. According to the Bible our giving is to be voluntary, cheerful and without compulsion (II Cor. 9:7). Determining set amounts for certain causes for every family in the church, and obligating the paying of such, […]
The October issue of The Outlook brought together several articles around one theme. The Board of Reformed Fellowship intends to publish more thematic issues from time to time. With Rev. Kloosterman I am grateful that we had the opportunity to write, to publish, and to read several articles dealing with catechism preaching. May our interaction […]
I would like to add my contribution to the subject of preaching on the Heidelberg Catechism. With Bajema and Wesseling (and contra Lankheet), I would plead for using the Lord’s Day itself as the “text” for the sermon. I believe that is the only legitimate way to “preach the Catechism.” And such a sermon […]
This organization and publication began 36 years ago announcing their devotion “to the exposition, defense and application of the Truth as set forth in God’s Word and summarized in the . . . Calvinistic” (Reformed and Presbyterian) creeds. Now, in a religious climate in which church commitments not only to what is Reformed, but even to […]
I. Introduction: How and What We Know. Dorothy Sayers in her 1949 book, Creed or Chaos, described the troubles of the Church when it discards Christian doctrine. We are experiencing that chaos, and especially young people suffer from the results of what Amos called “famine of the Word” (Amos 8:11–13). We must “Always be prepared […]
The recent panic on Wall Street, wherein the market lost a fifth of its value (hundreds of billions of dollars) in one day, tells us almost more than we want to know about modern man and his times. It reveals a society which glories in its own sophistication, but which in reality has had its […]
Featured speaker at last May’s local Banner of Truth Conference was Douglas MacMillan, who teaches Church History at the Free Church of Scotland College in Edinburgh, Scotland. Although this was his first visit to the U.S., be had become “one of Britain’s best-known preachers,” having rather recently also visited churches in Australia. His early life […]