Recently this magazine reported the Executive Director of Ministries of the Christian Reformed Church as saying that inerrancy is not a Reformed idea, that it comes out of fundamentalism, and fundamentalism poses more of a threat to the CRC than liberalism. We published the “Reaffirmation of the Inerrancy of the Bible” taken by CR Synod […]
The following excerpt is from the book, INERRANCY by Norman L Geisler. Copyright© 1980 by The Zondervan Corporation. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. The Reformation was not a revolution. The intent of the Protestant Reformation was not to create new doctrine or establish a new church. Rather, the impetus of the movement was […]
Having examined the roots of the downward hermeneutical spiral in the Enlightenment of 300 years ago in Europe and England, author Dennison now examines the American PCUSA in which the Enlightenment has triumphed virtually completely. The Editors In one American denomination in particular, the Enlightenment model has triumphed virtually completely. I am referring to the […]
1 Peter 5:5b–11 Key Verse: “But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.” 1 Peter 5:10 Humbled together under God’s mighty hand (read 5:5b–7) The apostle Peter turns from addressing specific groups within the […]
1 Peter 5:12–14 Key Verse: “Peace to you all who are in Christ Jesus. Amen.” Standing firm in grace (read 5:12) A person’s last words are often memorable. It pays to ponder them in terms of the life or, in this case, the letter leading up to them. As we shall see, these closing words […]
At a National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, February 3, Mother Teresa of Calcutta delivered the most startling and bold proclamation of truth to power I have heard in my more than 30 professional years in Washington. Before an audience of 3,000—that included the President and his wife, the Vice President and his wife and congressional […]
The following study of 1 Timothy 2:15 interrupts my series of articles on the “Bible and the Future.” I am writing on this subject for two reasons. First, many proponents of the ordination of women to church office appeal to the apparent obscurity of this verse to prove that 1 Timothy 2:11–15 is a notoriously […]
The Belgic Confession, one of the creeds of the church of which I am a pastor, says that you can identify a true church (a Biblical church as opposed to one contrary to God’s Word and God’s purpose) by looking for certain evidences, certain qualifying marks. All of them boil down of course, to the […]
Calvin Bremer Declines Nomination for CRC General Secretary; Calvin Seminary Prof Tapped a Next Choice GRAND RAPIDS, MI (February 16, 1994) RBPS – In a surprise development, the man selected for presentation to synod as the sole nominee for the Christian Reformed denomination’s top position of General Secretary has declined the nomination. Dr. Calvin Bremer […]