PART III: The lime between puberty and marriage is full of tensions. Specifically sexual urges have replaced the casual interest between the sexes, and a new, strange energy suffuses life. In fact, in our culture the tensions are heightened, because our youth does not ordinarily malTy at the time the sexual urges are the most […]
If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light. Luke 11:36 Gentlemen of the Board of Trustees, Calvin Seminary Faculty, Calvin Alumni Association, and Fellow Students: Welcome to the new academic year […]
Editorial Note: We are grateful to Dr. F.F. Bruce, editor of The Evangelical Quarterly, for permission to reprint this article as it appeared in the July 1946 issue of his magazine. It must be added that the publishers of Torch and Trumpet must not be understood as being in complete agreement with every statement and […]
Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tend toward Sodom.” Genesis 13:12 Lot was a Righteous Man, but Covetous Like Abraham, Lot was a believer in Jehovah, a person justified by faith. 2 Peter 2:6–8 shows this. He really was a child of God, […]
(An abridgment of a chapel talk delivered at Calvin College, November 11, 1953) The final volume in Winston Churchill’s monumental account of the Second World War carries these words of dedication in which the theme of the volume is summarized: How the Great Democracies triumphed and so were able to resume the follies which had so nearly cost them […]
EDITORIAL NOTE: With this article Prof. Martin Monsma of Calvin Theological Seminary addresses himself to a problem of current interest in the Christian Reformed denominations. Unlike many churches, the Christian Reformed Church has usually allowed only the male communicant members to vote at the congregational meetings. We welcome the Rev. Mr. Monsma as a contributor […]
As a recent academic procession attending the inauguration or the president of a Pennsylvania college moved across the campus, the representative of Westminster Theological Seminary could be seen at the very end of the line. or the great number of institutions of higher learning represented, his was the youngest! He was reminded that Westminster is but […]
In Returning from three years of missionary service in Pakistan I had the privilege of traveling with the Rev. and Mrs. W.A. Zoerner, missionaries under the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. Through them I was brought into contact with groups and individuals who are probably not too well known to many of the readers. In telling about them, I have […]
We begin our worship with a solemn declaration. This declaration is made by the congregation. It is well that we constantly remind ourselves of the fact that divine worship is a meeting between God and his people. Every part of our church worship should be either a speaking of God to his children or a speaking of the congregation to […]
(A Series of Lessons in the 37 Articles of The Confession of Faith, A Reformed Creed usually called The Belgic Confession.) Lesson 18—Article 21 THE SATISFACTION OF CHRIST, OUR ONLY HIGH PRIEST We believe that Jesus Christ is ordained with an oath to be an everlasting High Priest, after the order of Melchizedek; and that he has […]